The first versions of Firefox 11 Aurora for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android is available for download on the Aurora developmental channel for the newest Firefox innovations in an unstable environment. With the new update Firefox supports playing Adobe Flash content and its Android interface has a more appealing look.
Searches for the keyword "browser" no longer bring up the Google Chrome home page after Google applied a penalty against the page and demoted it in the search results for a period of at least 60 days. The company also banned the Google Chrome download page over paid links. The reason for those actions was Google’s own sponsored post campaign on blog sites that seemed to encourage low-quality content.
According to the latest data from Net Applications, IE6 usage has now officially dropped below 1% in the US. The outdated browser had already less than a percent usage in Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway. The next to join the list are countries like the Czech Republic, Mexico, Ukraine, Portugal and the Philippines. That's good news for the web developers who can consider IE6 as a low-priority at this point and stop spending their time having to support it.
Reports say Microsoft is planning to launch a new persistent virtual machine feature on its Azure cloud platform. Because of the lack of such persistent VM support customers who wanted to run Windows or Linux durably in VMs on Microsoft’s Azure platform-as-a-service platform weren't able to do so. The VM capability will let them host Linux, SharePoint and SQL Server.
After the many rumors about Google's Android being virtualized and productized as such on smartphones and tablets in 2012, people become more and more impatient to see their mobile operating systems with a fix for the update problem. Many experts say the solution to this issue is Android Virtualization and expect Google to introduce its productized form in 2012.
Mozilla released version 9.0.1 of its Firefox browser only a day after the launch of the Firefox 9. The update comes with a fixed bug 708572 which was causing crashes on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
Mozilla is moving towards a more intuitive and visually appealing Firefox experience while browsing on Android mobile devices. The new version of the browser for tablets is designed to satisfy any user preferences regarding the landscape. You can also take all the things you've been doing on desktop for years such as bookmarks and browsing history and move them to the tablet.
Yesterday Adobe has launched its free application for contracts management on iOS Devices. The application called Adobe EchoSign allows users quick access to their EchoSign accounts where they can sign any document directly from their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch devices. The application is available for free download on the iTunes App Store.
Read MoreMozilla released an update to Firefox. The new version of the browser
Firefox 9 comes with great performance improvements for desktops and an
entirely new look for Android according to the company. Now sites that
heavily rely on JavaScript like Web apps or ones that render games,
video, and 3D graphics will render much faster thanks to the new
JavaScript improvement called Type Inference.