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”Indian Firefox Bus Probably Doesn't Have Wi-Fi
In what appears to be the endless spread of Firefox, a new addition to the unofficial Firefox catalog has been spotted—in India. On the back of a bus. We're guessing the bus doesn't have on board Wi-Fi to make use of its web browser of choice, but we admire the support. Also, if that text in yellow above the artwork doesn't read "Safari and IE blow", well, then we'll eat our cats...I'm seriously mixing up my modern proverbs this weekend. Dammit. [Neatorama]
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Mobile Operators Resisting Firefox on Phones
Ever since Mozilla began work on a mobile version of its Firefox browser, convincing mobile operators to allow it has been an uphill battle. Naturally, an open internet would be a great benefit to users, but the operators would lose precious revenue from content providers. They would also have to contend with the expensive problem of beefing up their 3G networks. Unfortunately, open internet access is going to be a battleground for mobile operators whether they like it or not. Let's hope they can figure it out soon—Mozilla plans on dropping their mobile browser by the end of 2008.[Computer World and PC World via IntoMobile]
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Give WiFi Leechers Computer Rage With Executable Command Fun
WiFi leechers can be a real pain in the ass; they'd happily eat up your bandwidth even if you told them your life depended on it, which given our social existence, it pretty much does. The guys over at Ex Parrot have come up with a great plan to serve up some ice cold revenge to the culprits, which will have their browser displaying characters back-to-front, upside down or in an annoyingly blurred out fashion. You'll have to run some commands to get your pay back, but the how to makes it a cinch. Let us know if you hear any sounds of outrage from the sponging neighbors. Heh, serves them right. [Ex Parrot via Hack n Mod]Opera 9.5 Mobile Browser About to Get Commercial Release
Skyfire Windows Mobile Browser is Desktop-Like, Has Flash
Windows Mobile has its share of desktop-esque browsers with the still experimental Deepfish, but this Skyfire browser seems to be better than what we've seen yet. It's desktop-class, yes, but it also has Flash, Java, and "full audio, video" support. You can see what they mean with a video demo after the jump, but the illustration above (YouTube, Google Maps) should be a pretty good indication of what you'll be able to do with a browser that doesn't suck. [SkyFire]
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Lightning Review: Zumobi Mobile Browser
The Product: The Microsoft backed Zumobi browser for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 phones consists of bite-sized web content called "tiles" (a new fangled term for "widget") that offers users a customized, shareable web browsing experience. More »
Zumobi Browser Beta For WM5 and 6 Now Live: Content Partners Announced
The Microsoft backed Zumobi browser is now freely available to download for anyone running Windows Mobile 5 or 6 (Blackberry and selected J2ME compatibility will be coming early in the second quarter of 2008.). They have also announced content partnerships with providers such as Amazon.com, MTV Networks, The Associated Press, AccuWeather.com, Traffic.com, FlightStats.com and OTOlabs, who developed Tiles for Vail Resorts and Fox Television's "Family Guy." More »Mozilla Will Leave 80% of Firefox 3.0 Bugs Untouched Before Release
Firefox 3.0 Status meeting notes have revealed that Mozilla will leave about 8 in 10 bugs untouched before the final version is released. Instead, they have decided to devote their attention to correcting the most serious bugs in order to strike a balance between stability and the impending release schedule. [Mozilla via NYT]Microsoft Backed ZenZui is Now Zumobi, Announces Beta of New Mobile Browser
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Unconfirmed: Nintendo Discontinues DS Browser?
This is unconfirmed for now, but some forum poster at Neogaf claims that Nintendo is going to discontinue the DS Lite web browser. Seeing as you had to pay $29 for a web browser that wasn't even that great, we can understand why. [Amazon via Neogaf via DS Fanboy]
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Windows Safari Beta Tops 1 Million in 48 Hours
Curious Windows users wondering whether the grass is greener, or fed up IE/Firefox users looking for an out? Either way, another cold glass of ice water, indeed. More »
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Safari for Windows, Bugs-a-Plenty
Now it makes sense why Apple released Safari for Windows. Steve must love his Windows security jokes so much that he decided Apple should create a browser that exploits them even more. More »
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YouTube On a Mobile Browser, Please
That new iPhone commercial brags about it having a great browser. Mactards have even speculating that the iPhone has Flash support, because the NY Times website's video player appears to load up fine. But the commercial also skips over the agonizing four-minute load time it would take to cache all those ads, images, flash movies, and did they not notice there is weird baby music playing while some disembodied voice narrates? Dropping in a fake placeholder for the video just isn't out of the question. It doesn't matter, though. More »Hands-On Video With Microsoft's Deepfish Windows Mobile Browser
To say that Windows Mobile web browsers are hard to use would be tantamount to saying babies are fairly easy to beat up. Microsoft's trying to remedy this with their experimental Deepfish web browser, which tries to give you desktop-class rendering on your WM smartphone. Does it work? Well, sorta. More »
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The iPhone: Web Browser via Safari - Has Tabs
10:22: Browsing gives you the standard browser view (just like on the PC). More »DeepFish Browser for WinMo: Good Thing Finally Comes in Small Package?
Here's a sneak peek at DeepFish, a web browser for Windows Mobile that gives you an easy way to look at entire pages and then zoom in to individual sections. More »








