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This is the first 10.51 Release Candidate for Windows. The changes since the previous build are mostly stability fixes, and there's some work on improving Carakan memory usage compared to Futhark. Read more

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In this post, I will introduce you to some of the most compelling Facebook add-ons for Internet Explorer 8.

Share with Facebook Accelerator

The Share with Facebook Accelerator allows you to share any text, link, or page with your Facebook friends with a single click. Read more

Hi! I can introduce myself as a passionate Mac user for more than twenty years (!) and I recently joined the Mac team after helping out with 10.50 Final on Windows. Read more

Following on from the 10.51 snapshot for Windows. Here is a nice little suprise for our UNIX users. It includes all the Core and Carakan fixes of the 10.51 Windows snapshot, plus a little something just for UNIX: our latest improvements to GTK integration.

Whilst UNIX remains in alpha status for now, we are trying our very hardest to get you something more stable ASAP. Read more

This Opera 10.51 build brings a few important fixes to the e-mail client. We have also been working on stability, and some tweaking of performance related to JavaScript timers, which should lead to smoother animations in some cases. Some bugs related to customization have been addressed as well, along with fixes to Opera Link and bookmarks handling.

It's difficult to summarize and highlight specific fixes, as most of them could be important to different groups of people. Read more

When reading the last tip about restoring closed tabs, you might have wondered if you can just get the browser to always start up where you left off. This would save you the trouble of re-opening your windows and tabs manually.
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In the past 50 days, Firefox 3.6 has been downloaded over 100,000,000 times by people looking to improve their web experience, and install the world’s best web browser. Mozilla believes that the user’s choice of web browser matters, and is extremely proud of how many people have chosen to use Firefox. Starting today, users running older [...] Read more

Opera Software today launched the newest beta version of the world's most popular browser for mobile phones, Opera Mini 5, on the Android platform. Opera Mini 5 beta for Android brings a fast and cost-efficient Web experience to any handset built on the Android platform. Read more

Lanikai Beta 1, available now for download, is built on top of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform. While this milestone is considered to be stable, it is intended for developers and members of our testing community to use for [...] Read more

We’re always excited to engage with members of the W3C including the developers of other browsers as well as the broader web development community to help shape the direction of emerging Web standards, particularly HTML5.  This includes participating in events like TPAC, which Read more

Apple will be hosting a WebKit Contributors Meeting at its campus in Cupertino, CA on Monday, April 12 and Tuesday, April 13 from 9am to 6pm PDT. The meeting is targeted at contributors to the WebKit Open Source Project. The meeting will have an “unconference”-like format, allowing plenty of time for impromptu sessions/discussions and hacking.

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Opera Software today announced that, as of December 2009, Cosmote Romania is delivering a branded version of Opera Mini for mobile Web browsing and services to its customers in Romania. Read more

There have been a bunch of posts about the JägerMonkey (JM) post that we made the other day, some of which get things subtly wrong about the pieces of technology that are being used as part of Mozilla’s JM work. So here’s the super-quick overview of what we’re using, what the various parts do and where they came from:

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The RSA 2010 Security Conference is just finishing up here in San Francisco, and I’m struck by how many of the conference sessions and keynotes have warned about the threat that socially engineered malware poses to the security of the Internet. Read more

We’ve posted a new release of our Mozilla developer preview series as a way to test new features that we’re putting into the Mozilla platform. These features may or may not make it into a future Firefox release, either for desktops or for mobile phones. But that’s why we do these releases – to get testing and feedback early so we know how to treat them.

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Last week, the W3C HTML Working Group reached a decision to publish several new working drafts and these are now available. The discussion about what to publish and how to structure the HTML5 specification has taken several months. Read more

We're closing in on the 10.5 Final for Mac, and we've been working hard on getting it ready. Of course we have been working hard on all the platforms but Mac has made some big strides this week.

Mac Highlights

• Fix for extensive CPU usage and slow down
  
• Drop downs display again
  
• Lots of Flash and other plugin fixes
  
• Java is back!
  
• Mac Universal Binary is back! Read more

Tab isolation has recently become a more popular topic. This post is a quick survey of what tab isolation is, how it works, and what it provides.

What is it?

Tab isolation is a way to improve a browser’s reliability by containing the impact of a crash. Read more

Opera and Tele2 today signed a frame agreement for Opera Mini. The frame agreement enables Tele2 operations in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Croatia and the Netherlands to offer one-click access to the full Web to their subscribers. Read more

Opera Software today launched a native version of Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile 5- and 6-based handsets. Read more