If browsers were women

If browser were women, they would look like these.

Sauce: the Internet

Lunascape, three major browser in one

Yeah you read it right. Three major browser in one browser. Technically, it’s a browser with 3 different engine. Here’s the equation:

Lunascape = IE (Trident) + Firefox (Gecko) + Chrome/Safari (Webkit)

Namely the world’s first and only triple engine browser, this of course suited well for web designers and/or web developers. I look at this browser as one of the answers for cross-browser compatibility problem.

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Firefox 3.5 is officially out !!

In my previous post I stated that Mozilla will roll out Firefox 3.5 by the end of June. Hey, it’s today. It is out now !!

Please refer here for the list of new features. And here are some that I left out:

• Awesome bar pretty much works like Google Chrome’s the one and only bar. Now in Firefox, it’s a search bar, a history bar, and a bookmark bar.
• Smarter session restore makes crash recovery perform even better.
• Dynamic color profiling in the browser is optimized for web viewing; it means that whatever color you see when you’re doing some design work, it will be the same on the web page.
• Here comes geo-location, a feature that tracks your local IP. It kicks in when you, say type restaurant, it guesses that you’re looking for the nearest one to you. Neat ?

As usual to any newly launched browser, it promises better performance. This is something Mozilla would like you to know:

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Firefox 3.5 RC 2 launched

Mozilla has make yet another move in answering Microsoft’s IE 8. Introducing Firefox 3.5 RC 2. A relatively big leap from current v3.0.11. It is now available for download. But if danger is your middle name, you might want to try this out.

Why did I said so? Look out for the RC there. It means that Release Candidate is a very early version intended for web developers, not to the public yet. Such a software usually means unstable and might cause unexpected issues.

Well I didn’t write this to scare you away. So here’s the good part for the upcoming version: Read more »