Browsers Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Mozilla has no plans to release Firefox for iOS

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 11th, 2013)

At SXSW this weekend, VP of product at Mozilla, Jay Sullivan, said that there are no plans to bring the Firefox Web browser to iOS unless Apple changes its ways, according to CNET. The issue stems from a limitation Apple puts on developers stating that third-party browsers can only use ...

Opera hits 300M users, will transition to WebKit this year

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 13th, 2013)

Opera, the web browser available for Mac, iOS, PC and Andriod, has reached 300 million monthly users, the company has announced in a press release. Opera Software ASA also notes that the Opera web browser will be transitioning to the WebKit engine in future versions, taking advantage of the ...

Chrome 19 found to be fastest browser on Mac

by Mike Wehner (Nov 6th, 2012)

Google's Chrome browser has quickly become the choice for many web denizens searching for the fastest browsing experience. And while the latest browser report from New Relic confirms that Chrome is indeed your best bet for speed, the latest versions aren't actually getting any faster. The data ...

Daily Mac App: Fluid

by TJ Luoma (Jan 6th, 2012)

Fluid lets you create an "app" out of a website. If you use one specific website all the time, this alone is very handy. For example, if you wanted a browser specifically for Gmail, you could make one using Fluid and set its own icon, download directory, and other settings. Or maybe you heard ...

Daily Mac App: BatterySqueezer

by Samuel Gibbs (Oct 17th, 2011)

Modern Macs have pretty good battery life, but there are times when you can't get enough juice to keep working without a power adapter. BatterySqueezer promises to help you extend your battery by throttling process that are running in the background. The idea is that by reducing the amount of ...

Daily Mac App: Xmarks

by Samuel Gibbs (Aug 8th, 2011)

Need to sync bookmarks across multiple platforms and/or different browsers? You need Xmarks. The service that was on its way out, then bought by LastPass, allows you to sync bookmarks to the cloud, between machines and between different browsers. Xmarks has extensions or plugins for Safari ...

Trimit reads, simplifies, and condenses web content for social networks

by Erica Sadun (Jun 28th, 2011)

Trimit is a new app that promises to automatically summarize text. The idea is this: You enter a URL, trimit ingests the web page you pointed to, and then it spits back a condensed version at the length you specify. TUAW had a chance to take an early peek at this app, which is due to launch ...

Firefox 5 for Mac is available, brings updated UI and new privacy feature

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 21st, 2011)

Firefox 5 has landed and is now available to the public. The latest version of the popular web browser includes over 1,000 improvements, the most notable of which is a new Do Not Track privacy feature. This feature is found in the preferences and lets you easily opt-out of online tracking found ...

Mac 101: Quick navigation of browser tabs

by Kelly Guimont (Feb 21st, 2011)

If you ever use the tabs in your web browser, you may have a hard time navigating between them as you take your hand off the keyboard, put it on your mouse, click on the tab you're looking for, look at that page for a moment and then click back on the first tab again. As a person who has loads of ...

Camino 2.1 alpha preview released, new features in tow

by Matt Tinsley (Jan 21st, 2011)

Camino, the open source web browser for Mac OS X, has released Camino 2.1 Alpha 1 -- the first preview release of the forthcoming Camino 2.1 update. It's been just over a year since version 2.0 was released, and we can expect to see some great new features and improvements in the upcoming ...

iOS surpasses Linux as browsing platform

by Keith M (Sep 3rd, 2010)

Seems like only yesterday that Linux was vastly outpacing iOS in terms of how many were using it as a browsing platform. Actually, make that last November; at that time, Linux's presence more than doubled the total iOS stake. Now, iOS-based browsers claim 1.13 percent of all browsing platforms, ...

Royalty-free H.264 is a big win for HTML5, big loss for Flash

by Chris Rawson (Aug 26th, 2010)

Update: Mozilla responds, saying that by 2014 (when the original fee-free license for H.264 would have expired) chances are the codec won't be relevant anymore. So far, one of the main arguments against widespread implementation of HTML5 video has been the uncertain licensing future of the H.264 ...

ClickToFlash 1.6b7 solves YouTube's "Old Flash? Go upgrade!" message

by TJ Luoma (Mar 12th, 2010)

If you have ClickToFlash installed, you may have seen a note telling you that you have an old version of Flash and encouraging you to upgrade. As you might expect, you don't need to upgrade Flash, but you do need to upgrade ClickToFlash. The current version is ClickToFlash-1.6b7-upload1.zip, but you ...

Firefox 3.6 now available

by Dave Caolo (Jan 21st, 2010)

Head on over to Getfirefox.com, Firefox fans. Version 3.6 of your favorite browser is now ready. The video explains the major changes in this version, but here are the highlights. One-click themes. Using the Personas Gallery, you can assign a new look and theme to Firefox with a click. The way ...

Google Chrome released for Mac

by Chris Rawson (Oct 23rd, 2009)

Google has released an official developer preview of Google Chrome for the Mac. Rather than digging through nightly development builds, you can download the developer preview of the WebKit-based browser at Google's official webpage. Chrome sports several features similar to Safari 4 in Snow ...