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Hacksugar: Send URLs from your PC to your iPhone

by Erica Sadun (Dec 1st, 2011)

This morning, Beloved Leader Victor introduced me to my new favoritest hack for the iPhone ever -- if "ever" means "earlier this morning." It's a really good hack though. What you do is this. In Safari or Firefox or whatever your favorite browser is, create a new bookmark, which I include here ...

Sleipnir for OS X arrives in beta, touts group tab management and sync

by Matt Tinsley (Aug 26th, 2011)

If you're the kind of person that loves to live on the wilder side of internet browsing, today you're in luck. Sleipnir is a new OS X web browser that has a few twists, particularly when it comes to tab management. Developed by Japanese outfit Fenrir, Sleipnir first arrived on the iPhone (which ...

Camino 2.1 now in beta, features improved plug-in control

by Chris Rawson (Aug 1st, 2011)

Camino, an open source third-party web browser for Mac OS X, released a beta of version 2.1 last week. According to the release notes, new features in Camino 2.1 include: Enhanced Location Bar Autocomplete: The location bar's autocomplete feature now displays results in a single list, ...

Opera Mini for iPad now available

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 24th, 2011)

Opera rolled out version 6 of its popular web browser for iOS today. The latest version of Opera Mini now supports the iPad and the Retina Display of the iPhone 4, two major upgrades that should bring a smile to the face of iOS users. Opera Mini 6 also adds smoother panning and improved ...

Pixelfari browser lets you surf like it's 1982

by Steven Sande (Feb 17th, 2011)

Not every app on your Mac has to be useful -- sometimes you just want to have a little retro fun. That's the idea behind Pixelfari, a free "pixely, 8-bitty" version of the Apple Safari web browser. The browser was the brainchild of Neven Mrgan, who brought us The Incident, a game for iOS and Mac ...

Opera for iPad gets an early hands-on preview

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 17th, 2011)

After reportedly being rejected by Apple, Opera Mini for the iPhone finally hit the App Store in April of last year. The alternative browser uses Opera's server-side processing and page compression for lightening fast browsing over slow connections. Almost 10 months after its debut on the iPhone, ...

Opera Mini for iPad set for debut

by David Quilty (Feb 11th, 2011)

According to a report from Macworld, the iPad is about to get its own version of the popular Opera Mini web browser. The new iPad-centric version will supposedly be released at the Mobile World Congress event starting in Barcelona next week, along with updated versions for the iPhone, Android and ...

Opera mini coming to the iPhone

by Dave Caolo (Feb 10th, 2010)

Opera Software announced on Wednesday that they're going to offer a sneak peek of their Opera Mini web browser for the iPhone during Mobile World Congress 2010 (MWC). Several features of the Mac-based Opera will be included, like tabs, Speed Dial and the password manager, says Opera co-founder Jon ...

Opera 10 released, for your speedy web browsing pleasure

by TJ Luoma (Sep 1st, 2009)

A funny thing happened on the way to search Twitter this morning: I saw that Opera 10 was a "Trending Topic" and a smile came across my face. While I don't use Opera as my default browser, I always keep it around (in fact I'm working on a report about how to harness Opera's features for tracking ...

Choosy, your new default browser

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 28th, 2008)

It plays out like a Harlequin Romance for many a Mac user (especially web designers and developers): you have a fairly solid relationship with Safari, on a day-to-day basis. Despite your admiration for Safari's beauty and speed, though, the siren song of Firefox frequently seduces you away for ...

Surfin' Safari, ignoring IE

by Steven Sande (Oct 2nd, 2008)

Bloggin' buddy Jeff Gamet over at The Mac Observer provided an analysis of Web browser market share today that showed Apple's Safari gaining while Microsoft Internet Explorer's piece of the proverbial pie is still getting smaller. The numbers, reported from Market Share, show a slight increase for ...

Get your Firefox on: Firefox Download Day

by Cory Bohon (Jun 17th, 2008)

Just a reminder, as Robert hinted half an hour ago today is "Download Day" for Firefox 3. If you haven't yet downloaded the official 3.0 release, be sure to do it today! Firefox is trying to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. At 10 AM PDT (1:00 PM EDT) head over ...

OmniWeb 5.5 public beta

by David Chartier (Apr 30th, 2006)

Earlier this month, the Omni Group offered a sneak peek of their upcoming 5.5 release of OmniWeb, their feature-rich web browser that pre-dated Netscape by a year. If the preview piqued your interest, you might be interested in their public beta. While this new release doesn't pack in a boatload of ...

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