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.