First look: Opera 10 faster with new features
Today, Opera has announced the release of the Opera 10 Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. Are the new features and performance increases enough to beat out other popular browsers? The answer: it depends mostly on your choice of platform.
First look: Opera 10 faster with new features
Today, Opera has announced the release of the Opera 10 Web browser for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. Are the new features and performance increases enough to beat out other popular browsers? The answer: it depends mostly on your choice of platform.
Net Applications numbers show growth for Mac browsers
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Internet Tools
If you’re looking for a bright spot in the Mac market share numbers after the recent dips, Net Applications has your back. The May survey indicates an uptick in Safari’s share of browser usage — up to 8.43% from 8.21% in April, and 2% higher than a year earlier. Firefox continues to be the big 2nd banana to leading browser choice IE, with a 22.5% share. It’s not yet clear how the IE8 release will drive browser adoption.
Operating system numbers (which aren’t definitive, but provide a reasonable indicator of usage) also show a slight rise for Mac OS X (9.81% from 9.73%), also more than 2% over the year-ago allocation.
On the mobile side, the survey company notes that Android browsing usage started out with the same adoption curve as the iPhone/iPod touch, but has since fallen off that pace. Coverage of the Palm Pre starts soon.
[via Ars Technica]
TUAWNet Applications numbers show growth for Mac browsers originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Opening the package and peeking under the hood of Safari 4
It’s always interesting to spend time poking through the application bundle for newly released Mac OS X software. Inside the bundle are all sorts of files and resources that can sometimes give you insight as to what is going on with development. Today, Ars had a chance to dive into Safari 4 and explore some features that were hidden away from surface inspection.
To look inside any Macintosh application bundle, select it in the Applications folder, right click and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up. A new Finder browser window will open, revealing the bundle contents. Choose View > as Columns (Command-3) for the easiest browsing experience.
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Opening the package and peeking under the hood of Safari 4
It’s always interesting to spend time poking through the application bundle for newly released Mac OS X software. Inside the bundle are all sorts of files and resources that can sometimes give you insight as to what is going on with development. Today, Ars had a chance to dive into Safari 4 and explore some features that were hidden away from surface inspection.
To look inside any Macintosh application bundle, select it in the Applications folder, right click and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up. A new Finder browser window will open, revealing the bundle contents. Choose View > as Columns (Command-3) for the easiest browsing experience.
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Google Chrome for Mac: Don’t hold your breath
Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools
Gather around, Apple fans. I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that there is a preliminary version of Google Chrome up and running. Sort of. Google’s Mike Pinkerton has posted a couple of screenshots of Chrome for Mac on his blog, including the very first time he used it to load a webpage. It’s coming, folks.
Now the bad news from Mike himself, “We’ve got a very very long way to go.” He says that the WebKit that ships with Mac OS X doesn’t do what they developers need right out of the box, and it took a lot of cajoling to get it to comply. If it’s anything like the acrobatics I must perform each weekday morning to get my kids out the door in time to catch the school bus, Google’s Mac devs will be busy indeed.
TUAWGoogle Chrome for Mac: Don’t hold your breath originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Fri, 13 Feb 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Ultimate Mac Browser Roundup
If any one application is near and dear to almost every Mac users heart, it is the web browser. With more applications becoming web based, and web applications becoming more complicated, the browser’s appearance, feel, and most of all performance become even more important. 2008 has been a big year for web browsers, with Firefox 3, Safari 3.1, and several massive improvements in javascript performance. 2009 is poised to be even more impressive in browser achievements, with new versions of most browsers in the works, and the promise of a new player with a big impact, Google Chrome.
Each browser was run through the industry standard Acid3 and SunSpider tests.
If you are looking for choice, performance, feel, or appearance, at least one of the 16 browsers below should fit the bill.
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Chrome features are coming to WebKit
Filed under: Internet Tools, Developer
Although Google’s Chrome browser is currently only available to Windows users (unless you are running an Intel-based Mac and VMWare Fusion or Parallels), its WebKit underpinnings mean that Safari, and other WebKit-based browsers, can benefit from Google’s code.
One of the larger innovations of Google Chrome, the V8 JavaScript engine, is incredibly fast. The WebKit project has its own new JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish, used in Mobile Safari and the WebKit nightlies. Still, the code base for V8 along with the Skia graphics library are making their way into the main WebKit repository. The Skia graphics library may already be in some of the newest nightly builds.
What does this mean for Mac and Safari users? Superficially, it might mean very little for right now, however, the Safari team can choose to implement any of the Chrome features that have been added back to the repository. That’s the beauty of open source.
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Chrome features are coming to WebKit
Filed under: Internet Tools, Developer
Although Google’s Chrome browser is currently only available to Windows users (unless you are running an Intel-based Mac and VMWare Fusion or Parallels), its WebKit underpinnings mean that Safari, and other WebKit-based browsers, can benefit from Google’s code.
One of the larger innovations of Google Chrome, the V8 JavaScript engine, is incredibly fast. The WebKit project has its own new JavaScript engine, SquirrelFish, used in Mobile Safari and the WebKit nightlies. Still, the code base for V8 along with the Skia graphics library are making their way into the main WebKit repository. The Skia graphics library may already be in some of the newest nightly builds.
What does this mean for Mac and Safari users? Superficially, it might mean very little for right now, however, the Safari team can choose to implement any of the Chrome features that have been added back to the repository. That’s the beauty of open source.
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