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It was a busy week in the worlds of browsers and operating systems, as Google proved–with its unveiling of the browser-based Chrome OS–that the two are colliding.
Imagine a computer experience that’s much like TV: flip a switch and it’s on. That was the vision conveyed by Google Vice President of Product Marketing Sundar Pichai Thursday [...]

Mozilla is exhorting users to “upgrade the Web” with Firefox 3.5 and variations on that better-browsing theme can be found with Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, and Opera.
The hope is that the Web will evolve from a series of relatively static pages to a lively home for Web applications–everything from today’s e-mail to tomorrow’s spreadsheets. But it could take awhile for reality to catch [...]

On the SunSpider JavaScript peformance test, the new Google Chrome beta edges closer to TraceMonkey-enhanced Firefox. But the cutting-edge ‘Minefield’ version of Firefox edges ahead, too. (Credit: CNET News)

All those millions of people that rushed to download Firefox 3 got something they didn’t expect - a critical security vulnerability. Some people smell a rat!
The vulnerability, which could allow the excevution of arbitrary code, was reported to TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative just five hours after the open source browser was released on Tuesday. The [...]

Although Mozilla says Firefox 3 beta 4 still isn’t intended for the general public, its performance so far has given them the confidence to announce the final version is nearly ready to be unleashed on the world.
In an interview with Reuters, Mozilla’s Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer said in an interview that Firefox 3 [...]

Mozilla has released beta 3 of Firefox 3.0, with around 1300 ‘individual changes’ from beta 2, with fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements.
Firefox 3.0 beta 3 is here, with plenty of improvements set to send Firefox’s percentage of market share soaring ever higher once the final version is released [...]

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the ninth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and [...]

Apple showed off lots of new features of its upcoming Leopard release of Mac OS X at WWDC on Monday. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.

 
Stacks
These screens from Apple’s new Leopard preview illustrate the many new features revealed at today’s WWDC. Leopard’s new system for eliminating desktop clutter is called “Stacks.” Click any [...]

New alpha release is the first to include the much-anticipated, database-driven revamp of the bookmarks feature called Places.
Mozilla made an early testing release of its Firefox 3 browser available for download, and this alpha version (code-named Gran Paradiso) for the first time adds the anticipated Places feature for bookmarks.
According to Mike Connor, director of Firefox [...]

San Francisco (IDGNS) - Mozilla developers are experimenting with a service that lets users store online content on a remote server and access that information on cell phones.
The service, known as Joey, can help mobile users save time and money when accessing online content. While the service itself sounds relatively basic, its developers say users [...]