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Opera Will Unveiled Opera Mini for iPhone At MWC 2010

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Safari is currently the only web browser available for iPhone.  But that is going to change very soon when Opera Mini for iPhone from Opera will be unveiled during World Mobile Congress (MWC) 2010.

Opera Mini will be equipped with features that focused on performance,  as stated in press release “Opera Mini is renowned for its compression technology, which results in significantly faster Web-page loading and reduces data surcharges. With favorite desktop features in its arsenal, such as tabs, Speed Dial and the password manager, Opera Mini is designed with usability in mind“.

At a glance, Opera Mini will have the address bar and search box on the header. The main body will shows what believed as recently browsed sites or bookmarked sites. The footer will feature back and forward button, refresh, new windows and setting page. No estimated date when Opera Mini will available in App Store, so stay tune for the announcement next week.

Admin 11 February 2010 mobile app and web , , , , , , No Comments

Safari 4 beta : The fastest web browser?

If it is not because of the benchmark result that confirm Safari 4 is faster than Firefox and the rest of web browser, I’m probably still not using full version Safari browser. I do use Safari, but only on Iphone.

safari url Safari 4 beta : The fastest web browser? But before that, there is something I want to show you.  This post was initially drafted in Wordpress using Safari 4 beta, but I was hit by 1 bug when I attempt to create link using Wordpress’s add/edit link feature. The lightbox JavaScript covered the whole page including the windows where I suppose to add the URL. It stay there with nothing I can do except close that page. Quite disappointing.

Let’s forget that. Despite that unwanted bug (or probably my computer setup, I’ve no idea), there are 150 features that you can try it out although normal user like me won’t probably use 100% of them. As this is Apple’s product, you can expect the minimalistic but excellent user interface, beauty, tough and etc.

Back to the real reason of this post which is about the benchmark, Safari 4 and the rest of its rival were fared against each other in rendering Javascript using SunSpider. The result put the Safari 4 beta on the top of the list (smaller the better) with IE7 on distant last position.

1) Safari 4 (Total time: 910ms)
2) Mozilla Minefield 3.2a1 (1,136ms)
3) Google Chrome (1,177ms)
4) Firefox 3 (3,250ms)
5) Opera 9.6 (4,076ms)
6) Internet Explorer 8 (5,839ms)
7) Internet Explorer 7 (39,026ms)

The milliseconds gap between them is hardly can be noticed by human eye, but since the point of the benchmark is to show who is the fastest, it still a win for Safari 4. But the result is critical figure to the web browser developer, as a selling point to compete for bigger chunk of web browser market.

It still early to say if I’ll start using Safari frequently. I have IE, Firefox, Flock, Avant and Chrome on this computer and Safari 4 is just another addition to my web browser collection.  I end up with Firefox and Chrome, and Safari might be next.

Apple fan might have downloaded it once it is released, but for anybody else, you can try it here.

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Admin 27 February 2009 Software , , , , , , , , , , 7 Comments

Google ‘chroming’ Firefox with Chrome’s new tab style

Do you think Firefox should behaving like Google Chrome? The new Google Toolbar appears doing that.

The latest toolbar released yesterday making Firefox appearance Chrome looks alike. By default, when the new tab opened , the thumbnail of your favorite (most visited) sites will shown there.

Don’t like it showing favorites site? You can control the appearance of the new tab behavior, to be filled up by other websites or just a blank space from within the toolbar or Firefox setup.

But keep in mind, it works only on Firefox 3 and some users experiencing lags during browsing.

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Admin 1 February 2009 Software , , , , , , 2 Comments

How to switch Google Chrome release channel/version

Google Chrome 2.0 pre beta(dev channel) has been released with more new features included. GoogleSystem has gone extra miles by illustrating these features into the post together with screen shot. It is very useful indeed, a pictures is worth a thousand word.

Pre-beta channel/version is usually unstable, and containing a lot of bugs. Although public users are not recommended to use this version/channel, but it is common that everybody want to get taste of something that had just been released.

So how to do upgrade and if the beta version give you more trouble than productivity, how to downgrade it. This is the steps that I’ve tried this morning.

Upgrading channel/version

1. Backup your Chrome data (favorites, profile and etc). As per dev chrome page -

Make a copy of the User Data\Default directory (for example, copy it to ‘Default Backup’ in the same location). The location depends on your operating system:

Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\

2. Download Chrome Channel Changer.

3. If you don’t have Chrome installed, download and install it first.

4. Run Chrome Channel Manager and choose the desired channel.

chrome channel manager How to switch Google Chrome release channel/version

Why you have to run Chrome Channel Manager? Without doing this, your the Chrome installed is updated as per that channel. So no button update shown to you.

Before you choose other channel/release
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After you choose other channel, an update button will appear.
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5. In Google Chrome, click the wrench menu and choose About Google Chrome. Click on ‘Update Now’

update now How to switch Google Chrome release channel/version

Once completed, you’ll be asked to restart the Chrome and there you go your latest Chrome!!

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Downgrading

1. Reinstall Chrome.
[notes] Clicking the ‘Download Google Chrome’ button doesn’t seems working if you already have Chrome installed on your computer. I have to uninstall it, before make a new fresh install.

2. ‘Stable channel’ would be the default channel. (optional)Run Chrome Channel Changer if you want to go for ‘Beta’ channel

3. Replace back the ‘User Data’ with the backup data. Keep in mind that different channel has difference configuration. The profile from the latest channel is not compatible  with previous channel

Lesson learned

If found this  article quite misleading about how to move back to the original channel, I spend sometime to digest this ‘guide’ before I found the right document on Chromium dev page themselves. Lesson learned..

…. then download the Chrome Channel Changer (.exe link); run that app and select the developer channel. Then open Chrome, click the wrench menu and choose “About Google Chrome” where you’ll need to click “Update Now” to install the current channel’s release. After that you’ll need to restart Chrome.

If the 2.0 alpha doesn’t live up to your stability expectations, just reverse the instructions to get the stable version back.

From dev channel page

If you decide to switch from Dev to Beta or from Beta to Stable, the new channel will be on an earlier version of Google Chrome. You won’t get automatic updates on that channel until it reaches a version later than what you’re already running.

You can uninstall Google Chrome and re-install from http://www.google.com/chrome to go back to an earlier version. (If you want to be on the Beta channel, you have to run the channel changer again after re-installing).

Admin 10 January 2009 Software , , , , , 3 Comments
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