Filed under: News — Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Posted by: Editorial
Great news for the Google lovers, Google is going to launch its first operating system “Google Chrome Operating System” after the successful release of Google Chrome Browser. Finally, the mystery and speculations behind launching the powerful operating system are going to evade. Though Google Chrome browser did not reach a wider audience in terms of downloads and usage, experts say that this operating system is designed to meet the standards of the present era. Their urge to develop an operating system emerged as they think that the present operating systems were designed when there was no web. Intellectuals at Google say that this would be their attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
The official release for the end users would be available in the second half of the year 2010. The initial release of Google Chrome Operating System is targeted at netbooks, it is going to be open-source and consume lesser memory on the computer’s hard-drive. They have published an article on their official blog stating that they are soon going to discuss with their partners and open source community before they announce the authorized release.
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Filed under: News — Friday, July 3, 2009
Posted by: Editorial
Mozilla Corporation has just launched the fastest Firefox web browser, Firefox 3.5. Developers say that this release is stable, robust and fast in browsing. It has many advanced features when compared to its previous releases and supports new web technologies.
We have made an attempt to highlight some of the interesting and innovative features added by the Mozilla Corporation in this new release.
Speed does matter!
This is considered to be the fastest browser when compared with its previous releases. The results were baffling when they compared the loading time of Firefox 2, Firefox 3 and the latest release Firefox 3.5.
- Firefox 2.X – 18,148 ms (load time)
- Firefox 3.0.X – 3,669 ms (load time)
- Firefox 3.5 – 1,524 ms (load time)
Privacy!
It has enhanced security features to protect your private data. Firefox 3.5 release has introduced “Private Browsing Mode” by which the user can browse websites by surpassing the web history being saved on his/her local machine. This feature was earlier introduced in Google Chrome as “Incognito”. This feature would be helpful to users who use a public machine to browse websites. In this mode, Firefox won’t keep track on browser history, search history or download history. The cookies and temporary internet files will be deleted automatically once the session is closed. In case, if the user wishes to save a website, then the only option would be to save it in bookmarks.
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