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The path to bring Firefox to Windows 8 may be longer than Mozilla had originally anticipated, but the first important milestone to its January arrival is now at hand. Firefox for Windows 8 has graduated into the Aurora (pre-beta) channel, which provides experienced users and tire kickers a more reliable alternative to the previous nightly builds. In this release, the browser includes touch and gesture support, and it even offers up Firefox Sync and Windows Share integration. There’s plenty to appreciate on the backend, too, such as WebGL, asm.js and hardware-accelerated HTML5 video. According to Mozilla, it’ll focus on improving performance and responsiveness over the coming weeks, which is something to look forward to, if your trial run is less than ideal.

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This article was written on March 26, 2008 by CyberNet.

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It looks as though Opera could be the first browser to make it out the door with complete Acid3 support. The screenshot that you see above was released today by the Opera Desktop Team blog showing an internal build of the browser called WinGogi. According to the announcement a public preview version should be available within the next week:

We will release a technical preview version on labs.opera.com within the next week or so. For now, the screenshot above shows the Acid3 test as rendered in our latest WinGogi Desktop build. WinGogi is the Windows version of our reference builds used for the internal testing of Opera’s platform independent Core.

There’s no word as to whether this is going to find its way into Opera 9.5, but I think it might be a little too late for that. At this point it will probably have to be pushed back to Opera 10.0 since it could result in a significant change to the rendering engine, but hopefully more information on that will come when they release the technical preview.

I’m guessing Opera is going to be the first one to the finish line on the Acid3 test, and will be closely followed by Safari. Then Firefox will come around in about a year or two, and then Internet Explorer in about 5 years. Well, that’s if the past is anything to go by.

Thanks to Max for the tip!

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Like it or not, thinking about every megabyte is essential for smartphone owners hoping to keep their monthly usage from topping whatever tier they’ve purchased. The nasty, unbecoming world of data caps isn’t changing in the near-term, and Google knows it. Following in the footsteps of Opera, the outfit’s Chrome browser for iOS is evidently equipped with a data compression feature that’s engineered to save precious bytes when browsing via mobile. This technology has existed for some time, but it’s just now being rolled out en masse to those with an iPhone. We’re told that it “compresses and minimizes HTML, JavaScript and CSS resources, removing unnecessary whitespace, comments and other metadata not essential to rendering the pages,” which can reduce data usage by up to 50 percent on certain sites. So, Apple — thinking about tossing something similar under the hood of Mobile Safari?

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This article was written on August 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

WordPress.com is the home of nearly 1.4 million blogs, and in a days time they receive upwards of 12 million pageviews. There’s roughly 75,000 new posts among those blogs each day, along with 30,000 comments (not including the ones caught by Akismet). For that reason WordPress.com is an accurate measure of what tools the blogosphere is using.

Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, has posted some browser and operating system stats for the 115 million pageviews on WordPress.com in the last month. I’ve created pie charts using the information he posted to make the data easier to visualize:

As you can see IE has a much smaller market share among the blogosphere compared to the normal web usage stats. There were a few shocking points, and one of them is the slow adoption of Internet Explorer 7. I would have thought that the blogosphere would be more inclined to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.

The other thing I found interesting was the relatively small Mac usage…Linux is even catching up to the Mac. Windows of course rules the operating system market with a whopping 90%, but the PSP managed to scrape in nearly 35,000 pageviews from the 115 million.

WordPress.ORG is a slightly different story when it comes to the stats, which is probably because the people visiting the site are slightly more tech savvy. These people are likely looking to start their own blog on their own server, and that’s not exactly something the average Joe would do. Here’s what the stats look like for WordPress.org:

• 52.73% – Firefox
• 36.77% – Internet Explorer
• 5.65% – Safari
• 2.89% – Opera

More WordPress.com stats are available here, including how many YouTube videos are embedded each day, how many files are uploaded, and how many blogs are being created. Check it out…it’s pretty interesting.

Source: Photo Matt [via Mozilla Links]

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We’re sure many enjoy the simplicity of Evernote’s Chrome Web Clipper, but if you’d rather get more features and a new interface, this update will make you happy. Aside from being able to save a web page (in full or parts) for reading later, you now have other modes to choose from, including a simplified version that strips off the usual website accoutrements from a copy. You can also keep just a snippet of text accompanied by the URL using the new Bookmark option if you’d like to keep things neat, or take screenshots and go to town doodling on it, thanks to the integrated Skitch features. Before you install the upgrade and start sharing clips on Facebook and Twitter, though, make sure to check out the images after the jump to compare the old and the new UIs.

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