Google Chrome Heats Up Browser Wars
The Browser Wars are heating up, and it’s not a two-horse race. Sure Opera’s essentially been an also ran for years, but Apple’s Safari has been scarfing up market share with it’s insidious installation tactics and entrenched iPhone base. Now our benevolent overlords at Google have launched Chrome, a new open-source browser with some innovative design. Chrome promises to bring an end to crashing all of your browser tabs and windows for one misbehaving script or plugin and improved memory management. Google has launched it all with a comic starring engineers, designers and developers introducing their intriguing new baby and explaining what sets it apart from the crowd. Hit the jump for some initial reactions.
dwot Helpdesk – Firefox 3 Beta 5
The Final Beta of Firefox 3 dropped last week and I wholeheartedly recommend picking it up to everyone who uses a web browser, whoever the hell that might be. Firefox 3 adds updated page rendering, improved memory handling, tighter integration with the Look and Feel of the operating system, a revamped download manager, and a wealth of other improvements. In non-web-geek talk, it runs better, eats less memory and looks prettier. It installs fairly well in parallel to Firefox 2 on Windows at least which makes it a fairly low-risk install if you don’t feel it’s ready for you yet. Also, be sure to check out Lifehacker’s awesome Field Guide to Testing Firefox 3
Dropclock: Badass Screensaver
Dropclock is a fancy new screensaver available for both PC and Mac. It displays a clock comprised of numbers being dropped into water in slow-motion. The download is a little large for a screensaver, but it is quite cool.