Browsers & Add-Ons News
Disable Favicons in Firefox and Safari
If you’ve used a web browser for any length of time, you’re probably familiar with favicons–those small 16-by-16-pixel images that appear to the left of the site’s address in the URL bar. While many people, myself included, like this little touch of personalization in the URL bar, others would prefer not to see them. Perhaps [...]
Top 10 Google Flubs, Flops, and Failures
Google Incorporated is arguably the most successful Internet company today. But Google didn’t get to where it is without takings risks–some of which have failed spectacularly.
For example, remember the Google Accelerator, which was supposed to speed up Web surfing? (A dubious claim, but least it was free.) But you had to pay to get a [...]
Mozilla Delivers Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 with Major Speed Boost
Mozilla Corp. late yesterday released Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, the latest development preview of the company’s next browser, which has been delayed several times and now is tentatively slated to ship before the end of June.
New beta 19 percent faster in rendering JavaScript than last preview.
The milestone features more work under the hood — particularly [...]
