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Mozilla Firefox 4 Release Candidate for Android and Maemo Now Available
Mozilla Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo is now available as a release candidate in more than 10 languages from the Android Market and for download on your Maemo device. This release offers faster scrolling, better responsiveness with Firefox Sync and improves the overall user experience of Firefox.
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W3C Navigation Timing Reaches Candidate Recommendation
Sometimes Web standards can converge quickly. The W3C standard for Navigation Timing started about six months ago in the newly chartered Web Performance Working Group. Navigation Timing is the first specification from this this W3C working group, and in only six months went from a Working Draft to Candidate Recommendation.
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Google Chrome Logo Updated
Just a week after its open-source brother Chromium had its logo summarily flattened, Chrome has followed suit. For now it's only available in the Developer channel, but presumably it will quickly percolate down to the Beta and Stable channels. There are some more images of the new logo after the break.
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HTML5 Video Update WebM for IE9
IE9 can now play HTML5 video in both the industry-standard H.264 format and the newer WebM format. With the WebM Project’s release of WebM Components for IE9 (Preview), Windows customers running IE9 can play WebM videos in Web pages. IE9 is the only browser today committed to supporting both formats directly.
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Firefox 4 Set For Potential Final Release on March 22
Mozilla has been hard at work on the next version of Firefox for some time now. It was pushed back before, and now barring any further delays we’ll see the next version of the browser early next week. If everything goes according to plan Mozilla will launch the final version of Firefox 4 on March 22. The final version would be like the recently released RC1 version which “received a very warm welcome” according to Damon Sicore of Mozilla. Read MoreMicrosoft
2.3 Million Downloads Of IE9 In The First 24 Hours
Internet Explorer 9, in its first 24 hours of availability, has racked up a grand total of 2.3 million downloads. An impressive number, until you compare it to the latest major releases from Mozilla: Firefox 3.5 was downloaded 5 million times in 24 hours and Firefox 3, back in 2008, holds the world record for any piece of software with over 8 million downloads in one day.
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Google Search app for iPhone
If you need to do a Google search on your iPhone or iPod touch it's now faster and easier when you use the redesigned Google Search app, formerly Google Mobile App. If you've been using Google Mobile App for a while, you'll notice that things look different.
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Google Excises Gears From Chrome
Standards groups are unwieldy and slow-moving. But when it comes to expanding what browsers can do, they turned out to be a faster way for Google to bring a handful of features to the Web than its Gears plug-in. So it comes as no surprise that Google is removing the software altogether from its Chrome browser.
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Global Availability of Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft Corp. announced the release of Windows Internet Explorer 9 in 39 languages at the SXSW Interactive conference. Internet Explorer 9 is Microsoft’s most-downloaded browser beta of all time, with more than 40 million downloads, and it has already gained more than 2 percent usage on Windows 7.