Hasta La Gadget!

You may have caught wind of one sly fox unofficially popping up over the weekend. Well, as we reported, that fox — specifically Firefox 6 — is now officially ready for your downloading pleasure. If you’re a diehard Mozilla fan, or just an armchair browser expert, you’re probably already hip to the new Firefox rapid refresh cycle that’s seen three releases in the past five months. If not, the folks at Mozilla sent along a couple of nifty graphics (available after the break) to show you how the new timeline works. Alternately, if you’re not interested in how your latest install made its way to your device, feel free to download the real deal at the source links below.

Continue reading Mozilla officially releases Firefox 6, wants to show you how it’s done

Mozilla officially releases Firefox 6, wants to show you how it’s done originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Firefox (Android), (Desktop)  | Email this | Comments

Google was pretty adamant at I/O that Chrome OS would not be coming tablets, but that hasn’t stopped its open-source cousin from adding some touch friendly features. Chromium (the browser, not the OS) got its first tablet tweaks back in June, but this is the first time we’re seeing them on video. While the larger icons, widgets, and virtual keyboard, may eventually make their way onto the rumored Seaboard, there’s no guarantee these (obviously still early) experiments will ever debut as part of Chrome OS or even the browser. Check out the video after the break for a brief glimpse of this work in progress and, if you’re feeling adventurous, hit up the more coverage link to download the latest source code — just make sure to compile with ‘export GYP_DEFINES=”touchui=1″‘ to unlock the finger-friendly face of Chromium.

Continue reading Chromium’s experimental touch UI demoed on video, made for meaty fingers

Chromium’s experimental touch UI demoed on video, made for meaty fingers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink Netbooknews, Chrome Story  |  François Beaufort (Google+)  | Email this | Comments

This article was written on August 20, 2007 by CyberNet.

The Register had a chance to interview Opera’s founder and CEO Jon von Tetzchner last week. They discussed some of the challenges facing the company, as well as things they hope to accomplish in the future.

It was actually really interesting to read what Tetzchner’s take is on their competitors. There was a little bit of discussion on the iPhone, and a slightly larger portion dedicated to thoughts on Firefox.

Here are some of the more interesting things that I pulled from the interview:

Do you feel you’re falling behind?
We have by far the most used mobile web browser. Net Applications’ survey is showing Mini as the fifth most used browser in the world and in some countries it’s beating Safari, and others it’s beating Mozilla. The Nintendo Wii is also helping and we’re working on new version coming out.

We’re also spending time with the services, with Google and Yahoo! discussing compatibility.

Does Mini make money?
We’re not making money off Mini at this time. But we have achieved one billion page views, and so we believe we can have business models with Mini that don’t upset users. We make money through operator deals and the Yahoo! deal, for example. We’re also offering it on the server side. T-Mobile, Vodafone, Telfonica, all get specialised versions with their own front pages – and they pay us for the hosting.

How? [in regards to Opera’s efficient performance]
It’s easier to be efficient if you’re coding every piece of the code yourself. I’ve seen it myself. Someone on a core part strives to make their part really efficient; then someone on the UI side makes something simple but that makes heavy demands. It’s easy to think, "something I do doesn’t have to be that efficient", but it does. For example, in one of our builds we noticed the progress bar loading was taking up 25 per cent of the CPU.

I’m still amazed Opera has such a tiny footprint
This has been a focus for us – Opera runs on 10 year old hardware. But we noticed external code takes up time and we write our own libraries. There are libraries out there that satisfy a lot more different kinds of programmers – but when you use it your program becomes bigger and slower.

I thought that was pretty interesting how Opera Mini has had over 1 billion pageviews already. That’s pretty insane if you think about it, and if you’re wondering how they know the number of pageviews it’s because all site requests go through their servers where the pages are optimized and scaled for the best viewing possible on small screens. This even includes scaling images so that they don’t hog your bandwidth.

With Opera 9.5 Beta (hopefully) around the corner we might possibly see Opera tying all of their browsers together. For example, my bookmarks should get synced with their servers so that they are accessible where ever I am. Then when using Opera on the Wii or Opera Mini on my phone I would be able to access all of the bookmarks that I’ve already saved on my desktop. That should have been something on my list of "5 things that can make Opera better."

Source: The Register [via Opera Watch & Slashdot]

Copyright © 2011 CyberNetNews.com

Related Posts:

Opera Mini Continues to Prosper Around the WorldOpera Mini Switching Back to GooglePromote Opera Mini With 3 Great BannersDownload Opera Mini For Your Cell PhoneOpera Mini 4 – Free Mobile Browser

This article was written on September 18, 2007 by CyberNet.

Mozilla has posted Firefox 2.0.0.7 which is an extremely critical update for all Firefox users out there. There is only one thing that has been fixed, but it’s a QuickTime vulnerability that could compromise Firefox and your computer.

Petko D. Petkov was the person who found the exploit, and says that he discovered it nearly a year ago. At the time he had actually come across two of these vulnerabilities, but only one of them had ever been fixed. Now nearly a year later he took it upon himself to show "how a Low risk issue can be turned into a very easy to perform HIGH risk attack." To sum it up as long as Firefox is set as the default browser it will open the link and execute some code, and in Petkov’s example the Windows Calculator is launched.

Here’s what the Mozilla Security Blog had to say about the issue:

If Firefox is the default browser when a user plays a malicious media file handled by Quicktime, an attacker can use a vulnerability in Quicktime to compromise Firefox or the local machine. This can happen while browsing or by opening a malicious media file directly in Quicktime. So far this is only reproducible on Windows.

Petkov provided proof of concept code that may be easily converted into an exploit, so users should consider this a very serious issue.

According to Petkov this exploit is actually cross-platform, although myself and BetaNews both failed to get it to work on Vista. As of right now this appears to be isolated to the Firefox browser, but QuickTime is installed with iTunes by default which makes the chances of people being exploited much more serious. So all Firefox and QuickTime users are urged to upgrade to the newest Firefox 2.0.0.7:

Note: These download links use Mozilla’s load balancing, which is better than what some sites are doing by linking directly to the executable. The download should be posted on the official Firefox.com domain shortly, but QuickTime users should upgrade as soon as possible.

Copyright © 2011 CyberNetNews.com

Related Posts:

Firefox 3 Vulnerability Found in 5-hoursApple Releases Patch for QuickTime ExploitDaily Downloads: Firefox, Office 2003, JkDefrag, and MoreFirefox Vulnerability Exposes Extension VariablesVulnerability Already Found In Internet Explorer 7

Graphing calculators: essential tools for math education or low-res Game Boys? The debate rages on. Advocates of non-mathematical applications for the devices have scored a major victory with the introduction of Gossamer, a new web browser for various TI graphing calculators, which lets users visit some very basic versions of webpages, using the CALCnet and globalCALCnet protocols. The 1.0 version can request, display, and scroll pages. Logging in will bring you to a portal with links — the application’s developer has promised to add the ability to directly enter URLs in a future version, however. There’s a demo video after the break, though you may want to wait until after math class to check it out.

Continue reading Graphing calculator web browser lets you visit your favorite sine wave fan sites (video)

Graphing calculator web browser lets you visit your favorite sine wave fan sites (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink Gizmodo  |  Cemetech  | Email this | Comments