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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Mobile Version of Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla FennecMozilla which occupies 25% share in web browser market is ready to launch its mobile version Fennec. Currently major operators in mobile browser are Opera which occupies around 65% of market share and Nokia 25% of market share in Global market. Mozilla will launch Fennec in end of December 2009. Mozilla functioning on testing of Fennec mobile web browser.
Special feature of Fennec is its able to synchronise with your desktop browser and you can manage website on both PC and mobile. Now you can access your web browser from any where. You can use this software in S60 series and java series phone.

Features
Much improved panning/scrolling performance
Improved start-up time
Revised theme
Support for running in full screen
Numerous bug fixes
Improved painting performance
Improved UI polish
Support for touch sensitive directional pad on HTC devices
Improved kinetic panning with directional locking
Ability to scroll frames
Improved zooming support
Support for multiple screen sizes
Mozilla FennecWeb content:
Bookmarks, including tags
Smart URL bar ("awesome bar")
Tabbed browsing with thumbnail images
Integrated Web search - built into the URL bar
Easy access to multiple search engines
Built in error console
Support for add-ons

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Web Browser Review

web browser
Today, Million and billion of web surfers are using Internet so they need a software application for retrieving their request to available resource on the world wide web. This is informal definition of web browser. so keeping this prospective for Internet users, Here is a list few common and uncommon web browser for personal computer, in consecutive order and describe what type of features each web browser support.

List of Web Browser Table:

Rank #1 #2 #3 #4 #5

Mozilla Firefox

Google Chrome

Internet Explorer

Opera

Safari

Speed
Intial Statup time 14 8.1 8.5 7.1 10.6
Average Srartup time 3.8 3.1 2.2 4.4 3.7
Navigation Time 6.4 7 7.4 7.3 7.8
Features
Tabbed Browsing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Integrated Search Engine Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Smart Toolbar Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Thumbmail preview Yes Yes Yes
Save Tabs Yes Yes Yes Yes
Customized Yes Yes Yes Yes
Frequently visited webpage list Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Rss Feed Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Automatic update Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Password Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Synchronize Yes Yes Yes
Find on page Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Zoom Yes Yes Yes Yes
Parental control Yes Yes
Add-ons Yes Yes Yes Yes
Speel Check Yes Yes Yes
Mouse Gesture Yes
voice Interaction Yes
Open source Development Yes Yes
Seamless Download Manager Yes Yes Yes

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Internet browser

Web browser
Internet browser is a software program for traversing, presenting and retrieving information resources on WWW (World Wide Web). Information resources are identified by Uri (Uniform Resource Identifier) and may be a image, video, web page or other piece of content. Hyperlinks are useful to navigate their browser to related resource which can be an image, video, web page, text etc.

Primary objective of Internet browser to access World Wide Web, but they can also be access private networks or files in file system. This process begins when user inputs a Uri and determines how Uri will be interpreted. Mostly URI started with http (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) and mostly browser supported it. Some other prefixes are: HTTPS, FTP. For this bowser use various technologies to support all this.

Internet browser can display any kind of content that can be part of web page. Browser required plug-in and java applet to support image, audio, video and flash content. If content of file is unknown browser promote the user to save file to disk. Information resource contains hyperlinks to other information resources. Hyperlinks contain URI(Uniform Resource Identifier) of a resource. When user click on hyperlink browser navigates to the resource indicated by hyperlink and browser brings all content of page. Sometimes Browser is referred to as “Internet Suites”.

Features:

  • Support Wide variety of files formats and protocol
  • Additional component to support e-mail, Usenet news, Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
  • Allow multiple information resources at the same time
  • Multiple browser or Tab
  • Pop-up Blocker
  • Support Flash and Java applet
  • Book-mark facility also called Favorites
  • Built-in Web feed also called live bookmarks
  • Download Plug-in which provide extra features

User interface: All Browsers have user interface element

  • Back and Forward button
  • Refresh and Reload button
  • Stop button to cancel downloading resources
  • Home button
  • Address bar for URI (Uniform Resource Identifier)
  • Search bar
  • Status bar to show progress in loading the resources