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Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 now available

Mozilla Developer Center : Please note: Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes many new features as well as improvements to performance, web compatibility, and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-13-2009
Microsoft: IE 8 is often faster than Firefox, Chrome or Safari

Sorry, benchmark followers. Not that it actually matters--in real world usage, all of these products actually perform similarly--but it turns out that the darling of Web browser benchmarks really isn't Safari. Or Chrome. Or even Firefox. It's IE 8 : Measuring Browser Performance: Understanding...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-12-2009
Internet Explorer 8 is removable in new interim Windows 7 build

Hm. It looks like Microsoft is taking steps to ensure it can comply with EU regulators just in case: I've heard from a few people via email that IE 8 is now fully removable in the latest leaked interim build of Windows 7 (Build 7048). I downloaded the build last night and hope to check this out soon...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-04-2009
Kumo email

As you may have heard, Microsoft is now internally testing a new search engine codenamed "Kumo." Here's the text of the internal email announcing this to Microsoft employees yesterday: From: Satya Nadella Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:18 PM To: Microsoft - All Employees (QBDG) Subject...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 03-03-2009
Apple Safari 4 Beta

So this looks really interesting to me, though I will recall that Google Chrome did as well and now I barely use that. Still, something to at least look at. Ladies and gentlemen, in typical humble Apple understatement : Apple Announces Safari 4—The World’s Fastest & Most Innovative Browser Apple...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-24-2009
Mozilla releases early beta of Firefox for mobile devices

It's currently codenamed Fennec . This is an early developer release of the mobile version of Firefox, for testing purposes only, intended to: get wider community feedback on our approach to the user experience engage Mozilla community teams, including localizers, add-on developers, and testers get...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-11-2009
Mozilla jumps the shark

When a company like Opera complains about Microsoft, I sort of get it. No one uses this browser on PCs, and no one ever will. (Indeed, Opera was the last "major" browser maker to stop trying to charge for its product, despite the fact that every single OS has come with a free Web browser preinstalled...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-10-2009
January 2009 Virtual Earth Imagery Release

Wow. Some of this imagery is indeed stunning: Microsoft today announced its January 2009 Virtual Earth imagery release, which accounts for 37 terabytes of data. The imagery updates includes Bird's Eye imagery for cities in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Spain, Sweden and UK. The release...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-04-2009
Fix It: Microsoft begins automating help and support

Microsoft has started an interesting and important new initiative to automate its online help so that it can “Fix It” for you automatically. What a great idea. Here’s the word from Microsoft: Microsoft’s new “Fix it” solution is the industry’s first automated support solution that helps customers diagnose...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 02-03-2009
Gmail gets offline support

Google has finally added Google Gears support to its Gmail Webmail service, allowing the service to be used offline. It’s still a Google Labs feature, meaning that it’s basically in perpetual beta, but still. Here it is . So what can you do the next time you're bracing yourself for that long flight...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 01-28-2009

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