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Google Chrome out of Beta

Thomas — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:50:30 +0000

Google announced yesterday that with their 15th release they’re taking off the “beta” label! So after just 100 days of beta testing you can now download the first official release.

If you’re wondering whether or not Chrome is the right browser for you then take a look at the video’s showing off the features and possibilities. I’m sticking with FF for now but I’d love to hear what you all think…

Anyway – happy surfing! A little competition has never been a bad thing

Yet another IE fix

Thomas — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:14:47 +0000

Later this year Microsoft will release a public version of their next browser. Compared to previous versions Internet Explorer 8 will by default be set to follow web standards rather than “MS standards”. This will create the need for yet another IE fix concerning styling and layout.

The following support article from Microsoft explains how you can add a little code to the file header to keep the old behavior (emulate IE7). You can off course also assume that IE8 will behave like Opera, Safari and Firefox and just keep the rules for older IE versions (I think I prefer the latter if it turns out okay).

You can download and test IE8 Beta here.

Fingers crossed

Firefox fix to fix previous fix

Thomas — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:45:46 +0000

Security updates in FF 2.0.0.13 introduced stability problems in the JavaScript engine. This is known to have caused sporadic crashes during JavaScript garbage collection. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances and you can only presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

The latest version, Firefox 2.0.0.14 (released yesterday), eliminates the instability problems. In case your auto-update hasn’t done so all ready I strongly suggest you update Firefox immediately.