Firefox will never be ready!
Mozilla has created a web page with a counter that shows how many bugs are left in Firefox 4 before the browser can be released.
Firefox 4 has been delayed several times after the first plan to release the browser in November last year. Yesterday Mozilla announced that the next test version, Beta 12, probably released early next week.
Mozilla said last month that the company hopes to release the final test version, called a rc version, before the end of February. It now looks as if the plans can be difficult to reach and it leans more towards the beginning of March.
In addition, Mozilla announced yesterday that the company will release security updates for Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 on Tuesday. Firefox 3.5.17 and Firefox 3.6.14 will contain the security updates that are related to Adobe software, such as Flash and Reader.
The address of the page you will find on CanWeShipYet.com but on you’re a Firefox fan, you should not visit it more than once. Yesterday it stood at 17 bugs, but now when I writing this post is on 18 bugs, dont know if I dear to go back…
Previous articles about Firefox 4
Bugs delay Firefox 4
Many versions of firefox
Microsoft Explorer 9RC
Microsoft has released a new version of its popular Web browsers Internet Explorer 9 RC and with this they take a big step towards to a final product. With more than 25 million downloads of the first beta version, shows that there are a big interest, and Microsoft has worked hard on improving the browser.
With Internet Explorer 9 RC (Release Candidate), has all the features been ready and just bugs remain to be resolved. The finished version is expected to be launched during the Mix11 which takes place in April. It has been five months since the beta version was released and at that time the development team has made many changes. Here are some of the biggest and most noteworthy.
- Strong performance boost when running JavaScript, up to 35% against IE9 beta version.
- Tabs can now be viewed on its own line instead of to the right of the address bar
- Better control of ActiveX with separate settings for each Web site
- Geolocation with GPS support
- The function Tracking Protection improves the integrity and security
- Native support for WebM Video
- Several changes in the interface
- Power management has improved and is integrated with Windows power settings
- Improved support for Web standards, HTML5 and CSS
Tracking Protection is a new feature to give the user more security on the Internet and protecting personal privacy. This is done by including preventing sources from third parties from taking advantage of web history. These sources may include the ad system to display targeted ads to visitors to increase the chance that someone clicks.
Statistics from NetMarketShare shows that the Internet Explorer browser is steadily declining in the number of users for the benefit of Google Chrome that quickly grows on Microsoft’s expense. Since March 2010, all versions of Internet Explorer have lost a total of more than four percent, and Google Chrome has increased correspondingly.
Android 2.4 or not?
There have been many smart phones in the first quarter of 2011 with Android 2.3.
But the operating system will get an update to 2.4. Already in April, Google is expected to finalize the next version, which claimed to have only one major function, namely to provide support for applications that are customized for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and dual-core processors.
The fact that all the information around the Android 2.4 does not come directly from Google has caused many to distrust the data. The Website DownloadSquad say they believe more that Android 2.4 will instead be 2.3.3 or 2.3.4.
Still, are not all smartphones on the market today received the Android 2.2 or 2.3. Several manufacturers of smartphones are still optimizes 2.2 for their models and some have chosen not to update at all. Sony Ericsson for example, has said that the Xperia series, will not get Android 2.2 it will jump straight to 2.3 or 2.4 with the upcoming Sony Ericsson Arc and Neo.
A problem that already exists today is that consumers do not know which models will be updated and need to chance when purchase. Generally, the more expensive models are maintained better, while the budget variations are more uncertain. The manufacturers can not guarantee future updates, but users are in great hope for the best.
Will OpenOffice users leave for LibreOffice?
LibreOffice is a new office suite based on OpenOffice and is now being released in sharp version.
It was during the end of last year as a bunch of developers on the Open Office got fed up and started Libre Office. The reason was that the environment of Open Office was not open enough.
News Libre Office’s is ability to import and work with SVG files, simple workflow for editing the title pages and pagination, easier navigation tools in word processor, better handling cell in the spreadsheet tool, better import filters for a number of file formats. Libre Office also comes with all the news that you’ll find in Open Office 3.3 As new fonts and fonttools, can have up to one million rows in the spreadsheet tool and better support for importing spreadsheet data.
A number of Linux distributions have supported Libre Office. You can find Libre Office including in the next versions of Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuse.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice are available for Windows, Mac and Linux. And in lots of different language.
Download-links:
LibreOffice
OpenOffice
Mozilla ban Skype from Firefox
According to Mozilla’s is Skypes extension very buggy, and causes Firefox to crash and it could be up to 300 times slower in some operations.
According to Mozilla, Skype was the addition of nearly 40 000 crashes last week.
Therefore, have they now added blocking access to all available versions of Firefox and that means that the supplement will be banned from the browser. Users will get an information box that tells you that Skype was blocked, and would you continue to use the add, you need manually activate it.
Skype additional scans all web pages you visit for phone numbers, and make these into a link. The link opens Skype and allows you to dial the phone number.
Have google steel JavaCode from Oracle?
Oracle has been submitted document to a district court in northern California. They accused Google of having copied the Java-code line for line, to their operative system Android
Google answer is, that the company neither has infringed or may be held accountable for violating Oracle’s copyright. The company also denies Oracle’s announcement that the code has been copied.
In same time Google accusing Oracle to be edited or deleted information on its copyright to a number of functions and files in the code that it refers to. Oracle requires in its atmosphere both damages and that Google, by court order to prohibit further infringement on Android.
The trial begins October 31 next year, according to a recent decision by the judge in the case, William Alsup. Prior to the case this will being discussed at a conference on 18 November.
City Ville breaks record
Here we go again.
Zynga the company behind Farmville on Facebook have in just 12 days reached 26 million players on their new game CityVille. This is making it the fastest growing game ever. But then is Zynga also known as master of the marketing.
According to the App Data, are there a total of 222 million people who play Zynga games, and the company is valued to more than 5 billion, it making it bigger than a giant like Electronic Arts.
Oracle get $ 1,3 billion
After eleven days trial, between SAP and Oracle, Oracle has awarded damages of $ 1.3 billion. Damages amount is a huge blow to the German software company SAP, which claims that damages should not exceed $ 40 million.
Oracle’s lawyers welcomed the decision, even if the amont are less than the 1.7 billion company claims in the negotiations.
SAP has said that they are very disappointed by this decision and will take all the available options and to appeal the court order if necessary.
An appeal can take a long time to process.
SAP has denied that their sub-company, Tomorrownow, illegally downloaded Oracle software from Oracle’s website.
At the beginning of the trial tried SAP offer a deal that they should pay Oracle’s legal costs but Oracle declined
SAP has always said that they don´t want to pay more than the actual losses suffered by Oracle. Oracle has instead argued that SAP sould pay the same amount that the licenses would have cost to use-
Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, said under questioning that it would cost SAP up to four billion dollars.
Microsoft Office 365 do not take Google Docs serious
One of Microsoft’s executives have said in a statement said that their cloud is more business-aligned than Google.
Last month, Microsoft released Office 365 which includes Exchange and Sharepoint. The company denies that it has been designed to compete with Google’s web applications, but Eron Kelly as head of Microsoft’s department of marketing of enterprise applications, says that many corporate users have come to Microsoft after testing Google Apps.
- Googles Docs are missing important features, such as delegating access thats allows a user to handle your personal calendar. Although Active Directory integration is lacking, “says Kelly.
- I think Google has an interesting consumer service. They have given this service a name and it makes people interested, “continues Kelly.
One of Google representatives, Andrew Kovacs dismiss such claims.
- The truth is that our business is accelerating and our re-investment rate of profits is greater than 90 percent. More companies are switching to Google than Microsoft.
Many vulnerabilities in the Android
Coverity have investigated the Android core and found a large number of vulnerabilities, and several of them are serious.
In cooperation with Homeland Security, have the company Coverity analyzed 61 million lines of open source in PHP, Linux, Samba and Android. And in Android have 359 flaws in the code been found, roughly a quarter of these will be of a serious nature and pose potential safety deficiencies.
The version of Android-core that have been investigated is 2.6.32 (“Froyo”), how it looks like in previous versions of Android’s is hard to say. Coverity also say that the number of lines on a lack of Android is higher than average, and considering that the proportion of “high risk” flaws are relatively high.
In a statement from Andy Chou, director of research at Coverity.
- A significant number of these are of a high risk that our customers often resolves before the products reach the market. We believe that highlighting these risks proactively provide developers and vendors the opportunity to remedy those deficiencies before they become a problem.
Firefox starts with silent updates
Mozilla comes with a function for silent updates in the next version of Firefox, where the browser automatically updated to the latest version without user intervention.
This functionality will be included in the next version of Firefox, version 4. But only for the Windows version of the browser. According to Mozilla, Mac and Linux will still get updates like today.
For Windows users who want to retain control over whether an update should be done or not, will it be possible to set the silent update to active or not. But for the really big updates, such as from version 4.0 to 4.5, the browser will still ask for permission, regardless of settings, said Alex Faaborg, developers of Mozilla in a forum post.
Unlike Google’s Chrome, which started the trend by removing the end-user from updating equation, September 2008 has no way to turn this off.
Adobe Flash – Now for iPhone
Apple has changed the rules, and opens up the Flash to the iPhone. At least for applications that are constructed with the program.
Apple has changed the rules for the type of applications they allow for the Iphone. Now, developers no longer need to use the developer tools that Apple provides. In practice this means that developers using Adobe Flash can have their applications approved for the App Store. It does not mean that the iPhone will support Flash in general. You will not be able to view Flash content available like on the web in your Apple phone.
Adobe announces that “Packager for iPhone” is available in Flash Professional CS5 to make it easier for developers to deliver their programs to the iPhone. Apple will also release the guidelines for what happens when the company approves applications.
Has Microsoft bet on wrong horse again?….. Again!
While companies like Google and Mozilla (Firefox) pays rewards of up to $ 2000 for the discovery of critical security holes in its browser, Microsoft has gone a different way.
In a blog post on their MSRC (Microsoft Security Response Center) can you read that they have considered this but feel it is better to reward the security industry, and this is done by sponsoring security conference Black Hat.
The question is whether this is the right decision, given that Internet Explorer is not at all have the same security as Firefox and Chrome, according to all kind of different tests.
Will Microsoft succeed this time
Microsoft will soon launch Windows 7 Mobile.
This can be crucial for Microsoft to continue to break into the mobile market.
Today dominates the market for mobile operating systems of the IOS, Android and Symbian.
However, Microsoft is now widely supported by various mobile manufacturers for the launch and a lot of interesting models appear to be available once the system is launched. According to the site Pocket-lint data suggest now that the official launch date for the system will be on 11 October. It will be interesting to see how it will go for Microsoft this time.
New updates from Microsoft………..Again
Everybody write about it, so do I, but I honestley dont know why, this is not the first time, and will not be the last time, Microsoft, need to put out updates to recover their own misstakes………..
Ten things that fixes a total of 34 deficiencies in Windows, Internet Explorer and Office. Three of those ranked as “critical” and the other seven considered “important.” All vulnerabilities can be exploited by malicious people who are out to take control of a computer. At least two of the ten demands that you restart your computer. Deficiencies exist in Windows 2000, Windows XP (32 and 64 bit), Windows Server 2003 (32 and 64 bit), Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit), Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and Windows Server 2008 R2. All versions of Office that currently provides support are include one or more deficiencies.
Samsung try to compeate with Iphone
Wave is the name of a new mobile phone from Samsung that is worth attention for several reasons.
The phone is the first to be based on Samsung’s own operating system Bada. In the same time that phone is launces, they also launche their own application business Samsung Apps where you can download games, ebooks, and various utility functions to the phone.
Wave is equipped with a 3.3 inch super large AMOLED display at 800 x 400 pixels, 5 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 3.0, USB, WiFi, 2GB of internal memory and a processor at 1 Ghz.
HP buys Palm
HP buying Palm for $ 1,200,000,000.
HP plans to launch new mobile products with the operating system Web OS. What happens to the Palm brand is unclear at this writing. HP says that Palm’s CEO, Jon Rubenstein, will remain in the company.
HP has big plans for the mobile operating system Web OS. The company wants to build it into smart phones and other connected devices. If this means that they will abandoning Windows 7 in his Slate PC series that Hp have on the market remains to be seen.
Todd Bradley, executive vice president, have said in a statment.
- Palm’s innovative operating system is an ideal platform to expand HP’s mobile strategy.
Palm’s planned product launches, will be left unchanged, according to the website Engadget.
Success for Opera Mini
On the App Store’s top-10. Opera Mini is located in the top in all countries except one.
Opera Mini was released last Tuesday, and the Norwegian browser has become a huge success. This app is number one in virtually all countries, Australia is the only country that ranks in second place after the game Bird Strike.
Apple ♥ Opera
It took 20 days, 8 hours and 31 minutes for Apple to approve Opera Mini for iPhone and iPod tuch.
I have previously written about this, see here.
We should not take to much notice, that it took 20 days, it register lots of apps every day.
So now it is to download it to your device and see if it is as good as Opera says, for if it would be so, then I can not see one that will work with
safari in the future, one thing is for sure, Opera for PC is very good.
Google Chrome i new “Beta”
Google Chrome new beta version 5.0.342.9 have just been released.
Version 5.0 of the browser is now being developed and recently released a new Google beta version of the program. Since it is just a beta version, the program can still be buggy and unstable, which should be borne in mind before installing.
Google’s Chrome browser has a very short time built up a loyal band of users and is the browser that is constantly increasing in various studies done on the various web readers’ shares on the market.
