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   Cu peste 140 de schimbări la activ, mişcându-se fluent, introducând un nou mod de a gestiona temele (şi bineînţeles o tonă de teme) noul beta de la Firefox 3.6 este o bomboană care abia astepata a fi degustată şi testată . Un changelog sumar ar fi următorul:

* (New in this version) Support for the HTML5 File API
* A change to how third-party software integrates with Firefox to increase stability.
* The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
* A mechanism to prevent incompatible software from crashing Firefox.
* Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
* Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
* Support for the WOFF font format.
* Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
* Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

   O versiune nouă de ChromePlus ce vine cu următoarele schimbări:

• Improved performance.
• Updated to Chromium 4.0.246.0.
• Added tab mode option for opening ominibar URL(also called address bar) in chromeplus option page.
• Added tab mode option for opening bookmark in chromeplus option page.
• Fixed bug that IE tab can not backward.
• Fixed bug that IE tab title is not shown correctly.
• Fixed bug that some of the google search result can not be opened.

   În sfârşit şi versiunea finală de Opera mai bună şi mai fiabilă ca niciodată, venind cu următorul changelog:

# User Interface
* Added
- A progress throbber in the Opera Unite and Opera Link setup dialogs
- Favicons showing in search-engine list after double-clicking a word
- New error wording for the Opera Unite application settings dialog
- Open (UPnP) port information in the Opera Unite status dialog
- New images to the Opera installer
* Improved
- The Unicode compatibility layer
- Tooltip text explaining the red dot (attention state) on the Opera Unite icon
- The Opera Unite application upgrade/launch dialog
- Wording in the Opera Unite Application security and settings dialogs
- Help now opens in new tabs when accessed with F1 and by other methods
- Opera Unite applications performance
- CSS for the standard Opera Unite applications
- Accessibility and screenreader-friendly improvements:
- Keyboard modifications and fine-tuning
- Ability to exit Opera Show via the keyboard
- Page structure and higher contrast in default Opera Unite applications
- Opera Unite Fridge application using ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) to announce updates
* Fixed
- Opening a shared Opera Unite URL from Trash and rendering a blank page
- Users not being informed that a valid name is already being used
- Wrong page opening for the Opera Unite Home application
- Opera asking for master password at startup instead of when the Password Manager is used
- "Search the Web for …" not working when selected with a mouse
- The Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut; now opens the most recently closed tab when all tabs are closed
- An issue with IRC links "Save linked content as"
- A problem showing thumbnails when hovering over tabs when tooltips are turned off
- Double clicking Opera Unite Home (while Opera Unite is running) opens two tabs instead of one
- Spatial Navigation causing a problem when approaching the end of a long document
- Opera Unite applications not starting after first install
- Tabless windows staying open when the "Allow windows with no tabs" preference is not checked
- An open widget not getting focus when double-clicking it in the Widgets panel
- Several string and translation issues
- IME (Input Method Editor) being automatically ON regardless of your previous settings
- IME (in a Japanese environment) always switches to hiragana at Opera start
- Error message appearing when opening HTML files if Opera is not already running
# Mail, News, Chat
* Fixed
- Using Ctrl+Enter in F2 dialog on mail view opens a page in the background and removes focus from the application
- The Opera Mail systray icon not appearing if you have a mail window open but not focused
- The hiding of certains types of mail in trash, drafts, sent, and outbox: now impossible to do so
- Missing drafts which should be present when in draft view
- Messages being incorrectly added to the mailing lists index
- Sent mail showing up in recieved mail when Mail configuration is IMAP
- Search not working in Sent items
- Not being able to send mail from a Windows host with underscores in hostname
# Display and scripting
* Improved
- The. jpeg encoding used by the Opera Unite Photo Sharing application
* Fixed
- Problems on some JavaScript-heavy sites
- XML parsing errors on SVG documents
- Canvas drawImage with SVG causing memory leaks
- Problem after navigating to a page by double clicking the link context menu
# Security
* Fixed
- Fixed a heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion; see our advisory.
- Fixed an issue where error messages could leak onto unrelated sites; see our advisory.
- Fixed a moderately severe issue, as reported by Chris Evans of the Google Security Team; details will be disclosed at a later date.
# Miscellaneous
* Improved
- Text content of the 404 error page
* Fixed
- Incomplete page loading when running Opera Turbo
- Not being able to upgrade Opera when installed to 2-byte named directory
# Localization
* Improved
- Translations: updated searches, bookmarks, and Speed Dials
* Fixed
- Problem with default bookmarks breaking synchronization .

   O nouă versiune a browser-ului Iron aflată în stadiul beta ce vine cu următoarele schimbări mai importante:

* Based on Chromium 4.0 we released a new Iron-Version.
* New is a speed gain up to 30% and support for Bookmark-Synchronisation.
* Additionally the Extension-System was improved, there is now a user-friendly control interface and you become warnings for potential harmful plugins.
* Also the Windows 7 support is better in this versions: Aero Peek doesn’t work yet, but the integration in the new start menu is already done.

   Se mişcă excelent, Adblock-ul funcţionează ireproşabil chiar şi pe site-urile româneşti, temele se instalează uşor, extensiile merg în marea majoritate a cazurilor fără probleme – într-un cuvânt e bun şi e doar în stadiul beta .

   Încă un beta de la Firefox 3.6 – al treilea, beta ce vine cu următoarele schimbări:

* Firefox 3.6 Beta is built on Mozilla’s Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions, and has been optimized to run on small device operating systems such as Windows CE and Maemo.
* (NEW) Changes to how we allow third party software to integrate with Firefox in order to prevent crashes.
* (NEW) The ability to run scripts asynchronously to speed up page load times.
* More than 80 bug fixes from the last beta to improve performance, stability, security and features.
* This beta is available in more than 60 languages – get your local version.
* Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
* Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
* Support for the WOFF font format.
* Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
* Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

   O versiune nouă de Chrome ce vine cu următoarele schimbări (ce bine că AntiADS îşi face treaba cum trebuie):

* [r31412] Kiosk Mode implementation. (Issue: 23145 – doesn’t work on OS X yet)
* Update covered by extensions and all platforms.
# Extensions
* [r31157] Don’t reload extensions management page to refresh after install/uninstall/disable (Issue: 26163)
* [r31179] User scripts not installed depending on download settings (Issue: 26801)
* [r31204] Implement alert(), prompt(), and confirm() for extensions (Issue: 12126)
* [r31285] Installed extensions should not have the ‘reload’ option (Issue: 26901)
* [r31335] Make inspector for background page stay open across reloads (Issue: 25287)
* [r31365] Add an info bubble after extension installation (Issue: 21412)
* [r31540] Added a confirmation on extension uninstallation. (Issue: 27162).

   O nouă versiune de Safari ce vine cu un changelog consistent (în sfârşit am rezolvat şi problema cu Adblock-ul şi astfel Safari-ul devine cu adevărat utilizabil):

* Full-Page Zoom

Zoom in or out on web content using keyboard shortcuts, Multi-Touch gestures, or the Zoom toolbar button for more comfortable reading. Images and graphics scale up while your text remains razor sharp, keeping the web page layout consistent as you zoom. To add the Zoom button to your toolbar, simply choose Customize toolbar from the View menu and drag the button onto your toolbar

* ARIA Support

Safari supports Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). The ARIA standard helps web developers make dynamic web content more accessible for people with disabilities. With ARIA, sites taking advantage of advanced technologies like AJAX and JavaScript can now easily interoperate with assistive technologies.

* Speculative Loading

Safari loads the documents, scripts, and style information required to view a web page ahead of time, so they’re ready when you need them.

* CSS Effects

Pioneered by Safari, CSS effects help developers add polish to websites by stylizing images and photos with eye-catching gradients, precise masks, and stunning reflections that require only a few lines of code

* Acid 3 Compliance

Safari is the first — and only — web browser to pass Acid 3. Acid 3 tests a browser’s ability to fully render pages using the web standards used to build dynamic, next-generation websites, including CSS, JavaScript, XML, and SVG.

* CSS Canvas

Using CSS Canvas, web designers can position canvas elements anywhere an image can be placed using CSS. Safari is the first web browser to support CSS Canvas.

* Nitro JavaScript Engine

Safari 4 introduces the Nitro JavaScript engine, an advanced bytecode JavaScript engine that makes web browsing even faster. In fact, Safari 4 executes JavaScript up to 6 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and up to 4 times faster than Firefox 3.1.

* HTML 5 Offline Support

Web developers can now create applications that you can use even when you don’t have access to the Internet. Thanks to HTML 5 offline support, designers can build web applications that store themselves on your computer, where you have immediate access to them. Along with the application, web developers can also choose to store the application’s data on your system, so you always have the information you need. Applications and data can be stored in a traditional SQL-like database serving as an application cache or as a “super cookie,” which stores data in the familiar cookie format.

* Cover Flow

Using Cover Flow, you can flip through websites as easily as you flip through album art in iTunes. Cover Flow displays your bookmarks and history as large graphical previews, so you can pick out a website instantly.

* History View

Take a closer look at your browsing history in the History view. Search for previously visited sites, drag web pages to your bookmarks, and clear individual items. Safari displays your history using Cover Flow, so you can flip through your search results as easily as you flip through iTunes album art.

* Top Sites

Safari automatically identifies your favorite sites and displays them as a wall of stunning graphical previews. To visit one of your top sites, just click any of the previews. As you browse, Safari identifies the websites you’re most interested in based on how often and how recently you visit a site. So as you explore the web and discover new websites, your top sites will change to match your evolving tastes.

* Customize Number of Top Sites

To set the number of sites Safari displays on your Top Sites page, click the Edit button in Top Sites and choose Small, Medium, or Large in the lower-right corner to display 24, 12, or 6 site thumbnails, respectively.

* Pin Top Sites

To organize your top sites the way you want, click the Edit button and drag site thumbnails to any position in the Top Sites grid. You can pin sites to specific locations by clicking the pushpin that appears over the site.

* Smart Address Field

Enter web addresses quickly and easily. As you begin to type an address in the address field, Safari automatically completes it with the most likely match — called the Top Hit — and highlights it. Simply press the Enter key to connect to the site. If the Top Hit is not the site you intended to visit, check the list of relevant suggestions, drawn from your bookmarks and browsing history, that Safari displays. Click to select the site you want to visit.

* Top Sites: Fresh News

You can see at a glance when one of your top sites has been updated. Just look for the star in the upper-right corner to see which sites have fresh content to review.

* Powerful Tools

Apple has brought its expertise in Mac OS X and iPhone development tools to the web. Safari 4 includes a powerful set of tools that make it easy to debug, tweak, and optimize a website for peak performance and compatibility. To access them, turn on the Develop menu in Safari preferences.

* Web Inspector

The Web Inspector gives you quick and easy access to the richest set of development tools ever included in a browser. From viewing the structure of a page to debugging JavaScript to optimizing performance, the Web Inspector presents its tools in a clean window designed to make developing web applications more efficient. To activate it, choose Show Web Inspector from the Develop menu.

* Databases

Safari is the only browser that includes tools for managing the offline databases that will be part of the next generation of websites. The Databases pane in Safari 4 allows you to view tables and databases and even execute SQL queries.

* Resources

The Resources pane graphs the order and speed at which website components load over the network. It’s also the first tool that lets you sort data based on loading parameters such as latency, response time, and duration. You can graph page resources by either size or load time. Clicking a resource in the left column brings up detailed data on the right. For text resources, such as documents and scripts, you see the text source of the file. For image and font resources, you view a graphical preview of the file.

* Elements

Take a closer look at your page’s structure with the Elements pane, which makes it easy to examine your Document Object Model (DOM) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) rules. You can even make quick changes to your DOM or CSS and immediately preview how the changes affect your page.

* JavaScript Debugger

The Scripts pane features the powerful JavaScript Debugger in Safari 4. To use it, choose the Scripts pane in the Web Inspector and click Enable Debugging. The debugger cycles through your page’s JavaScript, stopping when it encounters exceptions or erroneous syntax. The Scripts pane also lets you pause the JavaScript, set breakpoints, and evaluate local variables.

* JavaScript Profiler

Optimize your JavaScript code using the state-of-the-art JavaScript Profiler in Safari 4. The Profiler lists the performance characteristics of each of your script’s functions, making it easy to pinpoint problem areas and drill down to the offending lines of code.

* CSS Effects

Using CSS effects, a new technology pioneered by Safari, developers can stylize images and photos with eye-catching gradients, precise masks, and stunning reflections, providing an extra layer of polish to their websites by adding just a few lines of code.

* Full History Search

Use Full History Search to instantly find pages you’ve visited in the past. To find a page, simply begin typing in the Search History field in Top Sites. There’s no need to remember page titles or complex URLs. Safari stores all the text from every page you visit, so you can base your search on any word or phrase that appeared on the site you want to find. And since Safari displays the results using Cover Flow, you can flip through large graphical previews until you recognize the site you want.

* Smart Search Field

Find what you’re looking for instantly. As you enter text in its search field, Safari recommends relevant searches courtesy of Google Suggest and lists your most recent searches, presenting them in an easy-to-read list.

* Full-Page Zoom

With Full-Page Zoom, it’s easy to take a closer look at small print on your favorite sites. Shrink or magnify the contents of web pages using Multi-Touch pinch gestures on your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro trackpad. Images, videos, and other page elements adjust while your text remains razor sharp, keeping your page layout consistent as you zoom.
Two fingers on a Mac trackpad

* Inline Progress Indicator

Safari was the first browser to move the progress indicator into the address field, making it more visible and freeing up space for web content. At a glance, you can see exactly when a site is finished loading.

* Windows Native Look

If you’re using Safari on a PC with Windows Vista or Windows XP, you’ll feel right at home because Safari features a native look — just like other Windows applications — including a native title bar, borders, and toolbars.

* Windows Font Rendering

Safari on Windows now uses Windows Standard fonts to deliver a more consistent experience. You can also choose to use Apple fonts. Thanks to the anti-aliasing algorithm in Safari, you enjoy crisp, gorgeous fonts. The algorithm preserves the subtleties of each font while rendering each character with a crispness that makes your favorite sites a pleasure to read.

   Rapid, fiabil, cu peste 190 de bugfix-uri la activ în versiunea de faţă, noul Firefox 3.6 Beta 2 nu poate decât să strălucească şi să câştige tot mai multă popularitate .

   Am găsit în sfârşit un Adblock funcţional pentru Chromium (celelalte metode sunt naşpa – inclusiv AdBlock+ la care ai nevoie mereu să dai ALT+B şi apoi uită instantaneu să blocheze – ce tâmpenie !) şi anume AntiADS 0.3.1 – singura problemă întâmpinată este că nu funcţionează deocamdată pe site-urile româneşti care sunt infestate de reclamă (poate cele mai agresive şi mai urâte în ceea ce priveşte reclama pe net) .

   Un nou beta de la Opera ce vine cu următorul changelog :

* User Interface
* Fix for proper Dragonfly toolbar button update
* Favicons now shown in list of search engines in double-click menu
* Fixed Bug DSK-240101 (When all tabs are closed, Ctrl+Z doesn’t open closed tab)
* Fixed Bug DSK-243433 ("Show thumbnails when hovering tabs" depends on "Show tooltips")

* Core
* Fixed Bug CORE-23622 (Canvas drawImage with SVG causes memory leaks)
* Fixed Bug CORE-25241 (XML parsing errors on SVG documents)
* Fixed Bug DSK-269070 (Crash when loading SVG containing foreignObject)
* Fixed Bug DSK-256135 (Chat stops updating after "Save linked content as")
* Fixed Bug DSK-260572 (Spatial Navigation crash)
* Fixed Bug DSK-265082 (Crash after navigating to page by invoking link context menu on double click)

* Opera Mail
* Corrected a bug where messages were incorrectly added to the mailing lists index
* Fixed missing drafts in draft view
* Fixed a bug where the mail systray icon would not appear if you have a mail window open but not focused
* Made it impossible to hide certain types of mail in trash, drafts, sent, outbox
* Disabled possibility to not show mailing lists in mailing lists and similar for feeds and newsgroups

* Opera Unite
* Changes to "Downloading Unite Application" security dialog
* Improved consistency in Opera Unite installation dialog
* New strings for opened (UPnP) port info in Unite status dialog
* New error string for Unite application settings dialog
* Strings for new Unite dialog "Start or install application"
* Replaced "code signing certificate" by "code-signing certificate"
* Fixed Bug CORE-21620 (Web server crash)
* Fixed Bug CORE-25025 (Too many continuous UPnP connections)
* Fixed Bug DSK-267707 (Links in ASD fields are HTML linkified)
* Fixed Bug DSK-269427 (Double-clicking Unite Home opens two pages)
* Fixed Bug DSK-269874 (Unite applications start when restarting Opera after stopping them)

* Windows
* Further Fix to Bug DSK-254112 (Opera will not start (Error initializing Opera: module 9))
* Fixed Bug DSK-266926 (Cannot send mail from a Windows host with underscores in hostname)
* Fixed Bug DSK-268958 (With Japanese environment and Microsoft IME, input method always switches to hiragana on startup)
* Fixed Bug DSK-269093 (Opera will not start after 10.01 upgrade; OUniAnsi.DLL not found on Win9x)
* Fixed Bug DSK-269098 (10.01 startup crash).