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Microsoft offers tabbed browsing in IE 6

News Weeks after promising tabs in its upcoming Internet Explorer 7 release, Microsoft made the long-awaited browsing feature available for IE 6 through its MSN toolbar. Last month, Microsoft confirmed speculation that it would offer tabbed browsing in...

9 June 2005, 8:40

Mozilla unleashes Firefox 1.5

News A new version of the Firefox Web browser debuted on Tuesday, promising speedier browsing, swifter updates and better pop-up blocking. Other improvements include 'forward' and 'backward' browsing buttons designed to load Web pages more quickly.

30 November 2005, 8:06

Microsoft to drop Mac IE

News The minority of Mac users still browsing with Internet Explorer need to consider moving to another browser very quickly, as Microsoft plans to discontinue support for IE from 31 December. While IE for Mac will continue to be available for another...

20 December 2005, 9:08

Safari introduces better browser colours

News Safari may not be rewriting the rules for Web browsing on Windows just yet, but it's leading the way with one significant change: photographs with better colour. Enabling colour support degrades Web page display "a few per cent" for normal browsing...

20 June 2007, 9:57

Microsoft chasing Firefox's tail with new Explorer

News Microsoft has confirmed that its upcoming version of Internet Explorer will include tabbed browsing, a feature made popular by competitors Opera Software and Firefox. In a Microsoft blog, IE product unit manager Dean Hachamovitch told consumers not...

18 May 2005, 9:28

Opera browser taking flight

News Opera worked with Thales last year to add Web browsing capabilities to Thales' TopSeries system, which is already used by more than 15 airlines, including Air Canada and Air France. The Thales deal is part of the browser company's ongoing effort to...

2 November 2005, 8:53

Technology brings motion-sensing to camera phones

News Later in the year, the phones will be able to use gesture-sensing for map browsing. Eventually, the technology will also be used for motion-controlled menu scrolling, picture browsing and mobile Internet surfing, company executives said.

Tags: mobile phones, motion, browsing, embedded

26 April 2007, 11:17

Microsoft unleashes IE 7 beta on public

News Another new feature lets users clear their browsing history more easily and thus wipe out passwords, form data and cookies in one click, the company said. The new browser also includes tabbed browsing and a search box, concepts that should be...

1 February 2006, 9:43

Opera Mini puts on a show for cheaper phones

News Opera Mobile, the company's existing software for the more powerful phones, uses the same rendering or browsing engine as Opera's desktop browser but with a scaled-down user interface. The new system won't provide full access to some complex Web...

11 August 2005, 8:31

Images: Touring Google's Chrome browser

News As with 'InPrivate' browsing, a feature in IE8 beta 2, Chrome's 'Incognito' browsing feature allows you to surf the Web without leaving any history behind. This feature is also well known as 'porn mode' browsing.

Tags: browsing, bookmarks, bookmark, beta

5 September 2008, 9:13

Firefox downloaded 75 million times

News This may be the first handheld browser to have both tabbed browsing and Web services support," said Doug Turner, the Mozilla engineer heading up the Minimo project. It offers desktoplike browsing functionality optimised for small screens.so you can...

27 July 2005, 8:53

Meet Maxthon, China's hip browser

News Maxthon gaining fans fastThis summer, Maxthon will release a new version, Maxthon 2.0, that will include parallel browsing, similar to the picture-in-picture feature on TVs, in which surfers can browse several sites in parallel.

23 June 2006, 10:05

News.blog: Microsoft quiet before iPhone 3G day

News Apple has a clear lead in areas like user interface and Web browsing. On the browsing front, Microsoft has pledged to improve things somewhat, bringing Internet Explorer 6 capability to Windows Mobile by the end of the year.

Tags: noise, browsing, developers, windows mobile

11 July 2008, 9:01

The iPhone: more questions than answers

News Battery lifeApple said the iPhone will have a battery life of "up to five hours" when used for phone calls, video playback and Web browsing, and "up to 16 hours" for audio playback. Data service through Cingular -- a must to tap into the Internet...

11 January 2007, 11:21

Songbird sings an open-source tune

News Screenshots posted on the company's Web site show a software application clearly modelled closely after iTunes' browsing style. The parallels drew instant ridicule from Apple loyalists, who pointed out that Apple had in fact patented software with...

23 December 2005, 10:25