Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category

Firefox 8 Beta now available

October 1st, 2011 Omar Khan

Mozilla has announced that Firefox 8 Beta is now available claiming that the new version will make browsing more convenient. Mozilla has been facing tough competition from Google Chrome after years of battling it out with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Mozilla stole a large market share from IE after its launch, Mozilla is yet again fighting to keep its dominance in the browser market with Google Chrome eating up into both IE and Firefox’s market share very quickly. This new release came just days after Mozilla pushed Firefox version 7 out the door.

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Virtual PC

December 26th, 2009 Omar Khan

Microsoft is allowing users to download VPC hard disk images to test different Internet Explorer versions on different operating systems. This is a useful tool as with the advent of virtual machines which allows users to run a computer within a computer and test multiple operating systems without installing them or the hassle of dual [...]

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Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 is out!

December 20th, 2009 Omar Khan

Mozilla Labs gave us an early Christmas present this year by release the new version of Firefox with some heavy duty updates. The Firefox 2.6 Beta 5 now comes with support for over 70 languages for Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Firefox is one of the fastest growing web browsers after Internet Explorer. The community [...]

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The battle of the Telecoms

June 23rd, 2009 Omar Khan

A local telecom provider Zong owned by China Mobile has been a front runner in the race for gathering market share by offering disgustingly low rates and amazingly affordable and convenient packages and the option of making up your own number but those were not their only strong points, Zong launched a massive advertising campaign [...]

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Internet Explorer 8

May 18th, 2009 Omar Khan

As the browser wars continue, Microsoft has come up with their latest version of the most popular browser yet again. With a variety of browsers more stable and freely available and packing quite a punch when it comes to addons, IE is slowly loosing ground. Browsers like Firefox, Opera, Netscape were a thorn in Microsoft’s [...]

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Fennec (Firefox Mobile) Beta

May 8th, 2009 Omar Khan

The mobile version of the Firefox browser, Fennec, is now officially in beta. It works only on the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet, but developers can also download it onto their computers. The Fennec browser is designed to make maximum use of the limited screen space available on mobile phones and tries to do everything possible to minimize typing. [...]

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