MetaFilter posts tagged with browser

Needs smaller paddles.

askmeaboutLOOM — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:15:00 -0800

Browser-based Pong. Stupid Javascript tricks!

Web browser history detection

homunculus — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:06:25 -0800

What the Internet knows about you. "This project was started by a small group of Web developers and security researchers in order to highlight the problem of Web browser history detection -- a problem which can dramatically affect the Web and hurt many people, if not solved quickly. Our direct goal is to educate the mainstream public and show them the direct consequences of allowing this aspect of Web browser behavior, as well as provide some solutions which mitigate the problem. However, since there are no existing satisfactory solutions, our other objective is to point the attention of browser developers to this issue and strongly encourage them to implement the necessary and long-overdue fixes." [Via]

Freedom! Horrible, horrible freedom!

sloe — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:14:55 -0800

Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer in Europe "Microsoft said it made it’s decision following an anti-trust investigation by the European Union." "This means that computer manufacturers and users will be free to install Internet Explorer on Windows 7, or not, as they prefer" - Dave Heiner, deputy general counsel for Microsoft. Related: Bing (6% market share launch) and the Browser Wars which are still being won by IE or pretty much a dead heat between IE and FF depending on who you sample. Apple nod: Safari's come from behind upset?

It has 'meta' in the name, so it's good, right?

Sparx — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:44:14 -0800

Metaplace Raph Koster's customisable, isometric, browser-based 3d environment has now entered open beta. caveats: Registration required, some Beta flakiness (previously)

"An approach to fair ad blocking"

jbickers — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:20:36 -0800

The maker of popular plugin Adblock Plus has issued a proposal for a solution that would allow publishers to unblock their ads in certain circumstances. "As I stated many times before, my goal with Adblock Plus isn’t to destroy the advertising industry. In the end, the Internet does need money to run and ads are still the most universal way to distribute that money," writes creator Wladimir Palant.

Quake Live

Plutor — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:07:05 -0800

Prepare to feel old: Quake III Arena came out nearly ten years ago. Prepare to feel young again: Quake Live can be played in your browser for free. The long-anticipated beta opened to the public yesterday. John Carmack says that they hope to be improving and polishing the game for the next decade. It only works in Windows with either IE or Firefox, although they promise Linux, Mac, Safari, and Opera support will follow shortly. Prepare for a wait, there's a bit of a line to login (better than crashing the servers, I guess).

SumoPaint -- Photoshop in your browser

spiderskull — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:56:28 -0800

SumoPaint is an impressive little flash applet that mimics Photoshop in your browser, complete with layers and filters. See it in action.

Because Firefox is just too darn white.

zardoz — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:48:21 -0800

Blackbird. Are you reading this page on Firefox, Opera, or IE? More importantly, are you black? Then you might want to check out Blackbird: "a web browser designed for the African-American community."

Plainview is a free full-screen web browser for your mac.

krautland — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:51:28 -0800

Plainview is a free full-screen web browser for your mac. Until now, you had two options for showing Internet work: capture it all to Quicktime and throw it into Powerpoint or Keynote (looks nice but no interactivity as everything has to be canned) or show it in your browser (interactive but with ugly chrome distracting people from your beautiful sites). So here's a third option. Fire up your full-screen browser and let your audience focus on the work. Oh yeah, the same guys also made a neat little flash game called Tankageddon and of course the subservient chicken.

Google's speedy little red browser.

tybeet — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:12:57 -0800

You may have heard about Google's new Chrome browser (previ ously). Did you know that where it really shines right now is on speed, especially with rendering JavaScript? vs Firefox, IE, Safari. vs Opera. video vs Firefox. and also vs IE, Firefox on tests other than JS handling. Not bad for being in beta, at version 0.2.

History of the browser user-agent string

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:31:46 -0800

History of the browser user-agent string

Google Chrome

zabuni — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:45:48 -0800

Google Chrome Google, faced with concerns over Microsoft using it's browser marketshare to marginalize the search engine, have decided to take the fight directly to them. Google Chrome is an open sourced browser based on the Webkit HTML engine, but adds a new Javascript engine, and some UI changes. To advertise it, they've enlisted Scott McCloud to make a comic showing the browser's features. The release date is Wednesday, but watch this space.

lolcatting all the way to the bank

quonsar — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:11:34 -0800

goatse hijacked my bank account

A virtual 303, 909 & effects setup in your browser!

6am — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:16:21 -0800

303, 909, FX, MIXER = ACID VARSITY. In other words, two virtual 303s, a 909, effects and a mixer running for free right in your browser.

WebKit build scores 100/100 on Acid3

aletheia — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:46:27 -0800

WebKit, the rendering engine of Apple's increasingly popular Safari web browser becomes the first "publicly available rendering engine to achieve 100/100" on the Acid3 web standards test. The Opera browser is expected to have an experimental build that passes soon, as well.

Death of a Browser, End of an Era

Chinese Jet Pilot — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:47:45 -0800

RIP Netscape browser, 1994-2007. AOL, who acquired the groundbreaking browser as part of a $4.2 billion deal in 1998, announced the end today. Good-bye or good riddance?

Flock

chunking express — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:49:01 -0800

Flock 1.0 is finally out.

Rewriting history

jbickers — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:03:52 -0800

"Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you've searched for on Google and which sites you've visited." Google unveils Web History, a new feature to help you "view and manage your web activity." You can also get an idea of what sites you visit frequently, broken down by time of day, and search across the full text of pages you've visited. "If you remember seeing something online, you'll be able to find it faster and from any computer with Web History. " What could possibly go wrong?

?Backwards Day!

loquacious — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:56:15 -0800

?Let today - the eleventh day of the twelfth month - henceforth and forever be Backwards Day! ?Fun with Unicode
Via the wonderfully nerdy 74 68 65 20 64 69 67 69 74 61 6C 20 6D 65.??‭

Opera 9 - it's good.

grahamwell — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:24:35 -0800

Opera version 9 - "The browser that everyone forgets about .. " has just been released - and it's good. Why should you care? Two suggested reasons [+ inside]

New browsers and tools

hockeyman — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:16:37 -0800

Revamping the browser Browser add ons such as Browster for IE and Firefox or entirely new browsers such as Flock (limited info) promise to rework the way browsing has been done during the IE only years from 1997 to 2004. More inside...

iRider

bingo — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:18:52 -0800

iRider. Is it more than just an IE shell? Could it possibly be worth paying for? Can it really do anything that Firefox can't? Discuss.

Your New Favorite Open-Source HTML, XHTML, CSS Compliant Browser Sucks

MiltonRandKalman — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:52:08 -0800

Camino goes 1.0 As if us Mac users weren't smug enough, now we have a Mac OS only stable release browser built on Mozilla. Don't forget to install camitools. [via laughingsquid]

Pirating Firefox?

FeldBum — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:04:48 -0800

You can't just give away free software! Or can you? Firefox's copyleft premise destroys U.K. anti-piracy laws. Gervase Markham takes on a U.K. official who wants to arrest pirates for distributing firefox.

Opera Mini

mr.marx — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 08:23:34 -0800

Opera Mini is now available worldwide, for free. A quality web browser for your Java enabled cellphone.