Vista puts Mac OS X font rendering to shame
One of the first things I noticed when I switched to Windows Vista earlier this year was how much of an improvement in font readability Vista has over earlier versions of Windows for the screen fonts.
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17.8.2007 New UI Font Coming to Vista, Office 12
With the release of a new user interface in Windows Vista and Office 12, Microsoft will also update the font that both products use for the first time in eight years. The company says the new font is designed to take advantage of ClearType, and is more modern than its predecessors.
Dubbed "Segoe UI," the font is more humanistic and less computer-like than it's predecessor, Tahoma. Microsoft also relied on a decade of research from its Typography unit on making fonts easier to read and scan on screen.
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23.11.2005 Google brings Chrome rendering engine to IE6, 7 and 8
A thorn in the side of many web developers is Internet Explorer 6. It's an old browser that has many annoyances that cause those creating websites to have to add additional code just to have things render as they should.
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22.9.2009 Windows 7 RTM Changes Disable DirectX Client-side Rendering over RDP 7
Changes implemented post-RC and ahead of the release to manufacturing deadline of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 have stripped away the DirectX client-side rendering over RDP 7 from the operating systems, Microsoft has informed.
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22.6.2009 Firefox vs. Internet Explorer, Ahead of IE8 and Firefox 3.1
For the past couple of years Internet Explorer has been on a downward spiral, albeit slow, but inching down with every passing month, with only Firefox to blame.
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2.12.2008 x64 Vista SP2 JPG Rendering Performance Inferior to x86 Vista SP2's
The JPG rendering process on 64-bit flavors of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is inferior to that on the 32-bit variants of the operating system.
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10.6.2009 Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1
Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests.
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21.11.2007 Convert your firefox favorites and feeds into IE7 with "Firefox To IE7"
My friend blake, who runs windowscoding.com, has just posted this really useful application to his blog..
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30.7.2006 Firefox 1.0.7 Released
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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Download Firefox 1.0.7
Firefox 1.0.7 was just released today. It's said that the only updates for this minor version change are security related.
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Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 Out Now
Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. This is the second Beta release of our next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to our developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback.
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Best Firefox extensions
When you ask most people what Web browser they use, the answer often will be Internet Explorer. After all, it comes preloaded on Windows PCs, so most people just use it by default.
But while IE maintains a stranglehold on the majority of computer systems, Mozilla's open-source solution, called Firefox, has made significant inroads into the browser market. Handy extra features are part of the reason for its growing success, as is the continual supply of third-party add-ons.
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22.12.2005 Just how buggy is Firefox?
Security researchers that carried out a code analysis of popular open source browser Firefox using automated tools, have discovered scores of potential defects and security vulnerabilities despite coming to the conclusion that the software was generally well written.
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12.9.2006 Firefox 2.0 RC2 available
The dev team over at mozilla.org have quietly released RC2 to the FTP.
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6.10.2006 A First Look at Mozilla Firefox 3.0
ArsTechnica have posted an in-depth look at Mozilla's new project, Firefox 3.0. The significant jump from 2.0, released a mere 2 months ago is mainly due to Mozilla's use of the new Gecko rendering engine.
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13.12.2006 Portable Firefox 2.0.0.1
Portable Firefox is a fully functional solution of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. And by
this poll is Firefox your favorite browser.
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15.2.2007 Dumping Firefox for IE
Office 2007 works so well with Internet Explorer 7 and does not mesh with Firefox. With that in mind I dropped Firefox in favor of IE.
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16.4.2007 First look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 1
I noticed that the Beta 1 for Firefox 3.0 was made available sometime yesterday. I’ve been curious as to whether the Firefox dev team would do a serious revamp for this release or just concentrate on bug fixes and performance improvements.
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20.11.2007 Firefox 3 Beta 3
Firefox 3, Beta 3 has just been released. Over 350 memory leaks have been fixed and reductions have been made in the memory footprint.
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13.2.2008 Firefox 3 vs IE 7 vs Safari 3.1
A few short years ago the browser war seemed dead and buried. After Microsoft’s Internet Explorer usurped Netscape’s Navigator in the late 1990s, it’s domination of the Internet seemed complete, over 95 percent of us using a version of IE.
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24.5.2008 Firefox 3.1 Beta 2
The second Beta development milestone of Firefox 3.1, codenamed Shiretoko, is now available for download.
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9.12.2008 Firefox 1.5 RC2 released!
Mozilla has just released Firefox 1.5 RC2 (Release Candidate). This release contains many bugs (about 36 fixes) over the previous RC. If no critical issues are found, then this is 1.5 final, otherwise there will be some more fixes before final, with possibly another RC release.
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Firefox 1.5 Final Released
Firefox hit its second major milestone Tuesday with the release of version 1.5, arriving just over a year after the alternative browser debuted at 1.0. The update sports Mozilla's new Gecko 1.8 rendering engine to speed up Web surfing, along with a myriad of other fixes and improvements.
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29.11.2005 New Default Theme for Firefox 2
There's a discussion going on in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox about "Changes
to Fx2 Chrome" which is about proposed changes to the main browser
window structure (buttons, layout, functions) that is exposed to users
by default in Firefox 2.
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13.3.2006 Firefox 3.0 Alpha released!
Today Firefox 3.0 Alpha was released to the public even before Firefox 2.0 has been released.
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9.4.2006 Firefox 2.0 Beta Delayed
The open source Mozilla Foundation has delayed the release of Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 by a week because of bugs yet to be ironed out in the browser software.
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10.8.2006 Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta 2
Beta 2 of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 has just appeared on the Mozilla FTP in the release folder, it's safe to say that this is Beta 2 and not a pre-beta.
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31.8.2006 Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Download Available
The Mozilla Corporation have today uploaded the follow-up to their hugely popular web browser, Firefox.
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23.10.2006 Firefox 2 Tweak Guide
The release of Mozilla Firefox 2 further expands the capabilities and features of this highly regarded Internet browser, proving that just because you are popular doesn't mean you should slack off.
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17.2.2007 Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1
Many of you will know that I’ve been following the progress of the Firefox 3.0 browser carefully over the past few months.
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18.5.2008Firefox 3 gets full-page zoom
The much-anticipated page zoom
feature has finally landed in
Firefox 3
nightly builds. Firefox 3
will now be able to zoom the
entire page, including images
as well as text, just like
Opera and IE 7.
The page zoom feature
request was originally filed
in Bugzilla in 1999, but
implementation was delayed
because it wasn't considered
practical in Gecko 1.8, the
current version of Firefox's
HTML rendering engine.
Scheduled for inclusion in
Firefox 3, the new version of
the rendering engineGecko
1.9leverages the open source
Cairo vector graphics
rendering framework and
includes a number of extremely
significant improvements to
layout and rendering. The page
zoom feature was implemented
as part of the Gecko overhaul
and will now be included in
Firefox 3.
Although the page zoom
feature is fully implemented,
the user interface doesn't
expose the page zoom
functionality to the end user
yet. Until menu items, toolbar
buttons, or keyboard shortcuts
are added to facilitate access
to the page zoom feature, most
users probably won't be able
to make much use of the new
feature.
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28.07.2007Firefox 1.5 Final Released
Firefox hit its second major
milestone Tuesday with the
release of version 1.5,
arriving just over a year
after the alternative browser
debuted at 1.0. The update
sports Mozilla's new Gecko
1.8 rendering engine to speed
up Web surfing, along with a
myriad of other fixes and
improvements...
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29.11.2005Firefox 3 Beta 4 review
Percy Cabello: Firefox 3 Beta 4 is about to be released (later today or tomorrow), as the twelfth milestone, in what already is the longest
development time for a Firefox version since the initial Firefox 1.0 back in 2004.
Fortunately, Mozilla has not been shy to set
as many milestones as needed, and given the many new features and tweaks Firefox 3 introduces, it seems anything but sensible, specially considering
its not only about Firefox but Gecko, the web page rendering engine and the Mozilla platform as a whole which affects the many products based on
it.
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10.03.2008New UI Font Coming to Vista,
Office 12
With the release of a new user
interface in Windows Vista and
Office 12, Microsoft will also
update the font that both
products use for the first
time in eight years. The
company says the new font is
designed to take advantage of
ClearType, and is more modern
than its predecessors...
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23.11.2005Mozilla delivers first alpha of Firefox 3.6
Mozilla announced on Friday the availability of Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1. This alpha comes just two months after the release of Firefox 3.5 and is the
first of several developer previews. Codenamed Namoroka, after a national park in Madagascar, Firefox 3.6 is expected to be finalized and released
later this year. Namoroka uses the new Gecko 1.9.2 rendering engine which is also still in testing. The alpha includes several speed improvements to
the javascript engine, and potential speed and responsiveness upgrades to the entire browser. Also Lifehacker is reporting that Tab
Previews, a feature that was removed in the final beta of Firefox 3.5 has been added and includes a simple guide to activate this functionality.
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10.08.2009More Intel "Tigerton" Demonstrations
It has been reported that
Intel's server platform,
Caneland,
features a point-to-point
connection between chipsets
and processors. This new
feature allows the processors
to be grouped together. In the
Caneland
system, four Tigertron
processors are installed for a
total of sixteen cores.
Supporting the
four Tigerton
processors is Intel's
upcoming Clarksboro
chipset. The upcoming
chipset appears to dissipate
plenty of heat and is shown
with a fairly large all copper
active cooled heat sink. Intel
also demonstrated the
performance of its Caneland
system with POV-Ray
Raytracing Rendering tests.
The benchmark showed Tigerton
delivering performance
improvements greater than 16
times with the multi-threaded
benchmark compared to the
single-thread benchmark.
It is unknown what
the system configuration and
clock speeds of the demo
systems were. Nevertheless,
Tigerton lives and is expected
next year.
neowin.net - 26.10.2006
Firefox Reaches Five, Tops Vulnerabilities List
This week marks five years since the public release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0. First available in beta form as "Phoenix" the browser was an open-source
evolution of the rendering framework designed for Netscape Communicator and extended with the Mozilla Suite; an all-in-one web communications package
that failed to gain the mindshare developers had hoped for. The idea behind Firefox was to create a browsing experience that was faster, more user
friendly, and more standards compliant in comparison to Internet Explorer, which had seen few improvements in quality or feature changes since it had
become a de facto monopoly within the segment.
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neowin.net - 10.11.2009
Mozilla CEO speaks out on future of Firefox
APC Magazine in Australia has
posted an 8,000 word interview
with Mozilla CEO Mitchell
Baker about where Firefox came
from and where it's going.
Baker talks about putting
Firefox on mobile phones and
pocket devices; plans to get
into open source graphic and
video rendering to compete
with Flash and Silverlight;
where the $55million a
year Firefox earns comes from;
the struggle with patents in
the software industry; why
many more businesses are
recontemplating moving to
Firefox rather than dealing
with the upgrade to IE7, and
why Mozilla hasn't yet built
an ad-blocker into Firefox.
She also talks about how
Firefox 3.0 will have a lot
more capability around
"branding" - will it be the
corporate visual theming
disaster that was IE4? And how
Mozilla's small development
office in New Zealand is
developing the ability to run
web abbs in Firefox without an
internet connection. And a
cartoon character, "Foxkeh"
that has been created to make
Firefox more approachable in
the Japanese market.
neowin.net - 07.05.2007
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Download Available
The Mozilla
Corporation have today
uploaded the follow-up to
their hugely popular web
browser, Firefox. Despite not
being featured on the Firefox
homepage the files have all
been uploaded to the Mozilla
FTP site.
The
Windows installer weighs in at
5568KB, and was uploaded at
0819GMT today. As well as this
both Mac and Linux versions
have been added.
This updated version is
designated for release
tomorrow, but avid Firefox
users can get their hands on
it now.
neowin.net - 23.10.2006
New mobile browser enables Flash video through server-side rendering
While the mobile phone industry scrambles to adopt faster graphics platforms for rendering video, a startup may have bypassed everyone with an
approach so simple, you wonder why nobody tried it already...
betanews.com - 28.01.2008
A First Look at Mozilla Firefox 3.0
ArsTechnica<
/a> have posted an in-depth
look at Mozilla's new
project, Firefox 3.0. The
significant jump from 2.0,
released a mere 2 months ago
is mainly due to Mozilla's
use of the new Gecko rendering
engine.
Mozilla has
officially released
the first public alpha build
of Firefox 3.0. Codenamed Gran
Paradiso, Firefox 3 includes
the new Gecko
1.9 rendering engine which
leverages the open-source
Cairo rendering framework and
features heavily re
factored re flow
algorithms that improve
Firefox layout functionality
and resolve some long-standing
CSS bugs.
The re
flow improvements in Gecko 1.9
(included in the latest Gran
Paradiso nightly build, but
not the alpha release) finally
enable Firefox to pass the
Acid 2 test, a CSS test case
developed by the Web Standards
Project to illuminate flaws in
HTML/CSS rendering engines. To
pass the Acid 2 test, browsers
must comply with W3C standards
and provide support for a wide
variety of features that are
considered relevant by Web
designers. The Acid 2 test has
been passed by several other
browsers, including Safari,
Konqueror, and Opera, but not
Internet Explorer. Passing
Acid 2 is considered to be a
significant milestone in
Firefox development.
neowin.net - 13.12.2006
Apple Renews Microsoft Font License
At TypeCon2007 Thursday, Apple
renewed its font licensing
agreement with Microsoft,
which gives users of Mac OS X
access to the core fonts in
Windows. The deal covers
popular document and Web
fonts, including Times New
Roman, Arial and Verdana...
betanews.com - 02.08.2007
NVidia Releases 3-D Rendering Tool
After a beta test last year,
NVidia on Monday released the
final version of Gelato 2.1,
the company's GPU-accelerated
3-D rendering software. The
tool was originally developed
for film and animation, but
has been expanded for game
development, industrial
design, and general CAD use...
betanews.com - 13.03.2007
Lunascape Is Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer Rolled Into One
Free application Lunascape is a web browser capable of running any of the three major web
rendering enginesGecko (Firefox), WebKit (Safari/Chrome), and Trident (Internet Explorer). That means that each time you open a new tab or follow a
link, you can tell Lunascape which engine you want to use to render the page. The idea, in theory, is that Lunascape gives you the benefits of each
popular browser in one. For example, Lunascape gives you IE support for the few IE-only sites still out there and no-nonsense speed from WebKit or
Gecko.
winbeta.org - 25.11.2008
Mozilla scrambles to patch Firefox for second time this week
Mozilla Corp. will probably release a Firefox update tomorrow to patch a bug in the just-released 2.0.0.10 version, according to the company's bug
database.
If so, it would mark the first time that Mozilla has released two versions of the open-source browser in the same
week.
A bug in rendering "canvas" HTML elements worked its way into Firefox 2.0.0.10, the edition Mozilla released Monday to
fix six other vulnerabilities. Canvas elements, which were first used by Apple Inc. in its Safari browser, let Web site designers dynamically render
bitmap images in HTML. Firefox, Safari and Opera support Canvas natively; Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer does so with a plug-in.
winbeta.org - 30.11.2007
ArchLord Goes Free To Play (With a catch though)
Thanks to Bluesnews for the
scoop.
ArchLord,
the MMORPG from Codemasters
which almost across the board
got horrible reviews, will go
"Free To Play" starting
January 4th, 2007. But there
is a catch - you still have to
buy the game. Now normally,
like in the case of Guild Wars
that isn't such a big deal -
right? Well in ArchLords case,
I think the reviews of the
game speak for themselves
pretty well. I'm not trying
to badmouth the game, in fact
I was probably one of the only
beta testers who had some fun
playing the game. But who am I
to argue this, I mean heck it
is going to be free to play
once you buy the game now, so
kudos to Codemasters there I
suppose. Here is the
Codemasters little press blurb
on the move to Free To Play
for ArchLord:
Codemasters Online
Gaming is pleased to announce
that ArchLord will be going
Free To Play on January 4
2007.
ArchLord
will continue to be fully
supported, including the
second fantastic update
Episode II: Season of Siege.
However, players will now be
able to access all this great
content simply by buying the
box; after that it's free!
Over the next few
days all those playing
ArchLord will be receiving
emails updating them of the
changes and how they will be
affected. Visit the website at
www.archlordgame.com
/freetoplay
to find out more information
on how the changes affect you.
If you want to
discuss ArchLord going free to
play, or anything else to do
with ArchLord be sure to
visit the forums. http://community.cod
emasters.com/forum/forumdispla
y.php?f=336
That's right,
ArchLord now has no monthly
fee. Buy the game and that's
it! Get out there and buy a
box and be prepared to take
part in some mass PvP
action.
So there you
have it, ArchLord goes free in
a short few weeks here, and
hopefully they will get some
more players now. I always
hate to see an MMORPG fail,
and ArchLord is no different
in that regard. Who knows,
maybe some of you will give it
a shot!
neowin.net - 06.12.2006
Firefox version 3 makes beta
Version 3 of Firefox, the alternative web browser of choice, is now available to download for its first beta test.
After 27 months of hard work the Gecko 1.9 rendering engine
has been integrated, and the development team is feeling ready to share its project with the world.
Version 3 has improved
security features to combat phishing and communicate with anti-virus software, as well as respecting parental-control settings such as those used by
Windows Vista. Better zooming and tab controls, and tweaks such as offering to save tabs on closing and use of the Mac OS X spellchecker, are also
included.
winbeta.org - 20.11.2007
Why Mozilla is committed to Gecko as WebKit popularity grows
In the wake of Google's release of the new WebKit-based Chrome browser, some technology
enthusiasts are beginning to wonder if the days are numbered for Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine. Despite the growing popularity of WebKit, those
who understand the differences between the two rendering engines and have an appreciation of Gecko's technical strengths, recognize that there is
no basis for speculation about the possibility of Mozilla adopting it for future versions of Firefox.
winbeta.org - 09.09.2008
Nvidia Betas 3-D Rendering
Software
Nvidia on Tuesday released a
beta of Gelato 2.1, the
company's newest final-frame
rendering software for 3-D
content creation. To join the
release, Nvidia also rolled
out a Gelato Zone Web site
providing resources such as
tips and blogs for the Gelato
community...
betanews.com - 02.08.2006
Firefox 3.5 benchmarked, not as fast as Chrome
The results are in from benchmarks of Firefox 3.5, performed by ZDNet. The benchmarks test all the main browsers from Google Chrome 2.0.172.33,
Safari 4, Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.0.5, Opera 10 Alpha and Internet Explorer 8. Each browser was put through three tests including SunSpider
javascript benchmark, V8 Benchmark Suite and finally the ACID 3 test. Firefox 3.5 was built for speed and performance, compared to previous
versions of Firefox. Firefox 3.5 performed better than Firefox 3.0.5 and Internet Explorer 8 in all three categories. From the graphs, it is clear
to see that Google Chrome performed the best overall, followed shortly by Safari 4 and then Firefox 3.5.
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neowin.net - 01.07.2009
