User Agents

Dooble – Secure and Open Source Web Browser

Dooble is a secure and Open Source web browser that claims to provide solid performance, stability, and cross-platform functionality.

Its most important goals are to safeguard the privacy of its users with a group of integrated privacy features of the browser: search engine, secure messenger, and e-mail client.

The installer also provides a means of installing the Dooble browser component. The website states the rendering engine is fast compared to Firefox‘ one which is slow and Opera’s which has middle rendering speed.

Dooble is available for popular operating systems Windows, OS X and GNU/Linux.

Visit the dooble website for more information on this new safe browser.

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Multitouch on Firefox

Multitouch on Firefox from Felipe

In this video Felipe demonstrates how multitouch gestures could be used on Firefox.

Here’s some demos of cool things you can do on a webapp with the multitouch support that is in the works for Firefox.

If you are interested in multitouch and Firefox make sure to read this blog post by Felipe.

SRWare Iron 3 – Like Chrome without Google

The German company SRWare uses the sources Google offers of its Chromium browser to compile a clone of Chrome but with quiet a few modifications. The new browser is called Iron.

Iron gets rid of the unique client id, timestamp, suggest, alternate error pages, error reporting, RLZ tracking, Google updater and URL tracker. But it not only throwing things away it also adds features and updates stuff in the core. Iron uses the newest Webkit engine, adds an easily configurable adblocker and an option to alter the user-agent string permanently.

The Iron Browser is available for free as Open-Source for the Windows OS (Vista, XP) over here.

Firefox 3.6 – First alpha released

Despite the fact I am personally still using Firefox 3.0x Mozilla already released a first alpha version of Firefox 3.6. It is intended for developers only.

The first developer milestone of the next release of Firefox – code named Namoroka Alpha 1 – is now available for download. Namoroka is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.2 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only.

The Alpha of Namoroka / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features:

• Compositor (Phase 1), which moves Gecko to using one native widget per top-level content document. See this blog post or bug 374980 for more details.
• A new focus model, described here and tracked in bug 178324
• The chromedir attribute has been replaced with a pseudoclass
• Several new CSS3 properties including background size and gradients for background images
• Speed improvements to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine
• Startup and responsiveness improvements throughout the application

The final version of Firefox 3.6 is supposed to hit the download shelves within a few month as spokesman Chris Blizzard of Mozilla promises in the blog post Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 – web developer changes.

Opera mobile for Android

Operas CEO Jon von Tetzchner said in an interview that Opera is working on an Android port of the Opera mobile browser.

Chrome 3 Beta version available

Google employee Fiona Chong of the Google Chrome team announced the immediate release of Google Chrome 3 beta. Its main advantage is the speed improvement in its JavaScript core.

As always, we continue to focus on speed, and this beta release shows over 30% improvement on both the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks over our current stable channel release. We’ve also improved two of the most loved and most used features of Google Chrome: the New Tab page and the Omnibox. Plus, we decided to add a little bit of style by allowing you to deck out your browser with colors, patterns, and images.

Read the blog post A New Beta: Why slow down when you can speed up? for all news on the new beta version of the Chrome browser.

Uzbl

Ever dreamt of a browser so slim like Vim? A browser you could incorporate into your own *nix projects? Now you got a choice. Uzbl. Uzbl is a browser that adheres to the unix philosophy.

You have to extend pretty much everything to add the features you need. It is done by writing scripts that extend the core.

Uzbl is a lightweight webkit browser following the UNIX philosophy – to do one thing and do it well.

• very minimal graphical interface. You only see what you need
• what is not browsing, is not in uzbl. Things like url changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, downloads, are handled through external scripts that you write
• controllable through various means such as fifo and socket files, stdin, keyboard and more
  advanced, customizable keyboard interface with support for modes, modkeys, multichars, variables (keywords) etc. (eg you
• can tweak the interface to be vim-like, emacs-like or any-other-program-like)
• focus on plaintext storage for your data and configs in simple, parseable formats
• Uzbl keeps it simple, and puts you in charge.

Source: The Uzbl project website

Uzbl is open source. So next time you need a webbrowser component in one of your projects remember Uzbl before hacking anything yourself.

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is available

Today Firefox in version 3.5 has been released. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. You can choose to get a localised version in more than 70 languages.

Firefox 3.5 has a huge number of additions and improvements for both users and web developers alike, including: robust new user privacy features; support for high quality open video and audio; a new, high performance JavaScript engine (and a host of other performance and speed improvements); downloadable fonts that will fundamentally change how we view typography and the web; powerful new developer features such as location aware browsing, canvas features, worker threads, native JSON, and media queries; and so much more. Firefox 3.5 is essentially an upgrade to the Web itself.

Source: Firefox 3.5 now available

Meet the browser that makes the web better. Get the new Firefox today!

Google Chrome available for Linux and Mac OS X

Early builds of Chrome for Mac and Linux are available on Googles Chromium blog.

The blog post says the releases are only aimed at developers because they are incomplete, unpredictable and the software might crash.

Most of the features known for the Windows build are available which the exception of flash video, privacy settings and printing facilities. Google has promised that a beta release will be available in the foreseeable future.

There is also a version of the iron browser available which has no unique id and is not sending requests to Google search for faster search results.

Taskfox extends Firefox’ Awesome bar

If you ever wondered how mondern web browers could be improved watch this video and you’ll see!

Taskfox Prototype from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

I found this video at the end of an interesting article on The Future of Firefox: No Tabs, Built-In Ubiquity on the ReadWriteWeb.