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Mozilla Fennec (Mobile Firefox) Demo

Mozilla Fennec is now in the beta phase, and as a result, you may give it a go at the following link for Linux, Windows and OSX users: Fennec Download
With a variety of neat features, including tabbing, Fennec may become the mobile browser of choice for mobile users. Check it out.

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Google Releases New Chrome Beta

Just today Google re-entered the world of betas by releasing yet another beta version of Chrome, Google’s first attempt at a web browser. Although the beta tag was removed from Chrome in December of 2008, Google decided to supply users with three different versions. The first is the stable version, which has minimal bugs, if [...]

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Firefox a follower?

Firefox a copycat?

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Safari 4 beta is out; download now!

The Safari 4 beta is now live! Get it here. Appleinsider reports that “new Nitro JavaScript engine executes JavaScript up to 30 times faster than Microsoft’s IE 7 and more than three times faster than Firefox 3. It’s also said to load HTML web pages three times faster than IE 7 and almost three times [...]

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Windows 7, Build 7000 to be last public beta

As many of you may have heard, I’m a really big fan of the windows 7 beta, It’s amazing, it’s the speed of XP, with even more features than Vista, without the badness factor of Vista. It’s so good in fact that I wiped my partition of XP on my Custom PC and my MacBook, [...]

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Windows 7 Public Beta Postponed

A Microsoft Representative has confirmed that due to an overwhelming amount of traffic on their webservers today, they have delayed the Windows 7 Public Beta Launch. It was confirmed it would launch at 4pm EST today (January 9th, 2009) but Microsoft sees it in their best interest to make sure their servers are stable before [...]

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Windows 7 is nearly final

Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer talked about Windows 7 in his keynote at the International Consumer Electronics Show tonight in Las Vegas. He said that the beta test version will be available for regular PC users to download and test out this Friday. The new operating system, which could be available for purchase on PCs [...]

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