Posts Tagged ‘browser’

Firefox for Mobile makes Maemo its first home

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As if you needed any more evidence of the tech supremacy of your Nokia N900 or N810 , here’s Firefox making its official mobile debut on the most righteous Maemo OS. Available for download right now , version 1.0 will come with a pretty sweet feature named Weave Sync, which harmonizes your bookmarks, tabs, history and passwords across devices, making for a seamless transition between your desktop computer and your mobile one.

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RIM patent app will have you barely browsing the web at incredible speeds

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Let’s not mince words: any way you slice it, RIM’s built-in browser for BlackBerry renders sites about as well as your $199 netbook renders Avatar . The good news is that we’ve got every reason to believe the company recognizes the problem and is working to solve it — but on a completely unrelated front, they’re trying to speed up the process of fetching raw data off the interwebs, too. In a patent app made public this month, RIM’s lab geeks describe setting up a proxy server right on the phone that would intercept the browser’s web requests and bundle, compress, and send them to a gateway on the other end (BIS, we presume) that would know how to deal with the packet.

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Google Chrome hits beta for Mac and Linux, extensions available for extra-smug Windows and Linux users

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At long last Mac and Linux users don’t have to feel like second class citizens in Chrome land : they’ve got official beta versions of Google’s browser to call their own.

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