New Relic Tells Us Mac Firefox 4 Beats Windows Chrome 11 In Performance
New Relic (previous CloudAve coverage), the SaaS based application performance monitoring solution provider, recently added a real user monitoring feature as a part of their SaaS solution. The idea is to offer a solution to track the user experience of the application in real time. It tracks vital performance metrics like Browser response time Slowest [...]
Sony VAIO PCs Have Been Selling with Google Chrome as Default Browser for Quite a While
Several blogs report the “news”, based on a Financial Times article that Sony VAIO PC’s will soon be selling with Google’s Chrome browser as default browser in the US. Nice, and it will no doubt help Google’s browser which still has less than 2% market share. But it’s not exactly news. A month or so [...]
Firefox 3.5 Dowload Day Progress – Google Gears, Mozilla Prism Missed Launch
Download Day for Firefox 3.5 is decidedly more understated than 3.0 was. A lot less hype prior to the release, no spectacular outages, and a respectable 1M+ dowloads so far, which is nice, but way behind Firefox 3.0′s Guiness Record. Blog visitor stats are very biased metrics, they tend to lean towards the “new and [...]
Opera Unite: Do You Really Want to Run a Web Server on your Computer?
The little browser that could … was how the Opera browser was often referred to around 1996-98. The best browser packed with innovative features that Internet Explorer and Firefox were forced to copy: tabbed browsing, popup-blockers, saved sessions, zooming, mouse gestures to name a few. The fastest browser that did everything out-of-the box that Firefox [...]
Getting Rid of IE6 – the Campaign Continues
The words "Internet Explorer 6" will even make the coolest CSS-guru cry. To make a stop to this virus some tweeters in Norway started a campaign to get users to upgrade, or even better switch, browser. Many of the largest web sites in Norway as well as many international sites took part of the campaign. [...]
Google Keeps the Gates to the Clouds Open to Hackers
Image via CrunchBase, source unknown If you are a security professional or someone who has done a course on computer security, you will know that the security of your computing environment is as strong as the weakest link in the network and/or users. A single user in your network who is careless about the passwords [...]
Google Chrome is a Failure… Surprised?
Last month Google released its Chrome browser to the public and as usual it made a lot of PR noise (and a comic book) and got lots of favorable reviews When combined with Gears, which allows for offline access, Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on [...]
