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Firefox 4 beta shows Twice better JS performance than 3.6 but still lags behind others

With Firefox 4 first beta release, comparisons have already started to see which browser is better in both speed and performance. Simon Mackie of WebWorkerDaily used the Mozilla's Dromaeo testing suite to get the stats and although this beta scores twice more than the Firefox 3.6, it continues to walk in the slow lane, relatively.

Chrome overtakes Safari, now holds Third place in US Browser Market

According to the statcounter's last week update, Chrome has finally overtaken Safari and has now earned Third position in the US Browser market. On an International scale, Chrome is way ahead of Safari, with more than twice its market share, but for the first time it has conquered it in United States.

Chrome v/s Firefox - Are we witnessing a declining reign of Firefox?

Many of us started our IT life through Windows and Cyber life through IE and so we are probably the only one who can understand what it felt when we shifted and explored this web using Firefox - Freedom . This Browser is one of the most popular open source products of all time. It has a vast fan following but now its not the only option available to users.

Adobe's Flash Player seems to stay longer with Chrome's built-in support

You all would be aware of the scope of the new open web technologies which posed a serious threat to the future of Adobe's Flash Player. While the debate was going on, things started to look really bad for Adobe System's Flash when Apple announced that they won't include Flash support in iPad. It was looked upon as the end of an era for Flash(and a beginning of HTML5) but everyone was still eagerly waiting for Adobe's move to save their technology. And it came out in the form of Google's announcement of adding Adobe Flash Player support in Chrome.

Google another step closer to Chrome OS with Device Orientation Plumbing

So, the Developers are working on this device orientation technology, using which the browser will understand how the device is behind held. This technology, Device Orientation Plumbing, is being built in the webkit engine which powers Chrome and Safari. I don't think the primary aim of inclusion is to make sure if you are able to read properly while your tablet/laptop/mobile is tilted, but this will give a boon to online gaming.

Chrome with built-in Flash is available now

Every browser has its own ways of dealing with the inevitable Adobe Flash Technology. Inevitable? Becaues of its wide usage, can't just avoid it. Google Chrome, for example, decided to prevent crashing and other issues with Flash, by integrating it with the browser using an extension to NPAPI and has finally released a stable version of Chrome with built-in Flash support.

Now Play Quake II on your browser with WebGL and HTML5

HTML5 doesn't seem to have any limits. Earlier, playing videos on your browser without flash was unimaginable, but now, you can even play Quake II level games on it. The game I am talking about is GWTQuake, a Quake II port to use HTML5 and WebGL. It uses WebGL, HTML5 Canvas and audio to make it possible.

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