The final version of Opera 10.60, in addition to running 50% faster than the earlier version, will have AVG security features built in, according to the company's PR chief, Thomas Ford.
Integrated AVG Web Threat Data Feed offers 10.60 following security functions.
Real-time alerts and notifications are a powerful feature being added to more applications every day; the addition of real-time notifications can make a big difference in user experience and peoples' work performance when using apps.
Unfortunately, there's not one standard way to easily code these notifications across platforms and there's very little support for web apps seeking to send notifications to users. It's been one of the advantages that desktop apps have had over the web. That could be about to change.
Internet users in the U.S. have finally caught up with the rest of the world in their browser choice today, with Google's Chrome taking over third place from default Apple browser Safari. The browser, first released just two years ago, has led Safari worldwide since last September, but just this week surpassed it in the U.S. as well, according to Internet traffic analytics company StatCounter.
For some, this is seen as a big win for Google over Apple, as the two companies battle over the search and mobile spheres.
Last Thursday we wrote about Firefox's launch of its newest version, 3.6.4. This version separated the browser itself from the plug-ins that ride it. So if a plug-in were lagging, or otherwise going haywire, it wouldn't crash the whole screen. These improvements are restricted to Linux and Windows until Version 4.0, which will include Mac.
Today, Mozilla has announced a further upgrade, to version 3.6.6.
Earlier this morning, Google released a new stable version of Chrome, the company's increasingly popular browser. This new release for Windows, Mac and Linux is the first stable version of Chrome to be distributed with a built-in version of Adobe's widely used Flash Player. Just two days ago, Google enabled the built-in version of Flash in the beta channel versions of Chrome, where it had already been available earlier this year, though Google then disabled this feature after a while.
Mozilla just launched the latest update to its popular Firefox browser. This new version (3.6.4) introduces a number of stability and security fixes, but most importantly, Firefox now protects Windows and Linux users from browser crashes when the Adobe Flash, Apple QuickTime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins freeze.
The developer's version of the Google Chrome Web browser was updated this week to include the ability to sync your extensions. The new feature joins Chrome's other sync options, in place for some time (Bookmarks, Preferences and Themes), to more fully round out the browser's synchronization platform.
Each time Norway-based Web browser Opera releases a new version, the company boasts about how much faster this version is than the last - and this time is no exception.
Opera 10.60 beta claims to be 50% faster than its predecessor and will support a number of cutting edge Web technologies that could help bring it further into the mainstream.
Flock, the "social" Web browser formerly built on top of Mozilla's Firefox, has just made a radical change. It's now powered by Chromium, the same technology found in the underpinnings of the speedy (and rapidly growing) Google Chrome.
Long decried among many early adopters as slow, busy and buggy, Flock today aims to change those former perceptions with the launch of its overhauled browser. The company describes the new Flock as "simple," "clutter-free" and "lightning fast."
We expect to see the first beta version of Firefox 4 later this month. If you want to try out some of the changes that Mozilla plans to make to its browser today, however, you can also download the latest Mozilla Developer Preview. This new version offers support for WebM video, hardware-accelerated HTML5 video for Windows (DX9), Mac (OpenGL) and HTML5 forms. The Mozilla team also managed to vastly improve the performance of the browser. Windows users will see major interface improvements, and users on all platforms can now choose to put tabs on top, just like in Google Chrome.
