{"id":31788,"date":"2011-08-17T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=31788"},"modified":"2011-08-17T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T13:22:19","slug":"firefox-chrome-spruce-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/31788-firefox-chrome-spruce-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox, Chrome spruce up"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been a busy couple of months for the Mozilla Foundation and Google. Both organizations this week release new versions of their popular browsers. Firefox 6 is the latest release from Mozilla while a Chrome 14 beta shows off some of Google\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n

Firefox 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Mozilla Foundation has made good on its promise to speed up its development schedule and already this year the Firefox browser has jumped from version 3 to version 6. And that\u2019s not the end. The next release of Firefox, version 7, is already in the pipeline and will hit user desktops in the next month or so.<\/p>\n

For now, however, Firefox 6 is the latest and greatest of the Mozilla releases and includes a handful of updates for fans. Most of the changes are not, however, immediately obvious and cover mostly internal workings of the browser.<\/p>\n

Among those is better support for HTML5, support for WebSockets and improvements in load times. Firefox 6 also includes a plug-in checker which verifies extensions and checks for compatibility.<\/p>\n

What can be seen is the Data Management Window which is used to manage the personal information that is available to third parties. There is also a scratchpad for developers that makes it easy to test out JavaScript snippets.<\/p>\n

\"Firefox<\/a>

Firefox Scratchpad<\/p><\/div>\n

With its new speeded up development schedule each new version of Firefox is just a little bit better than the one before which means that each new release is not packed with features.<\/p>\n

Firefox 6 is no exception and paves the way for version 7 and 8. Version 8, in particular, will include many of the major changes envisioned, including much greater control over plug-ins.<\/p>\n

\"Firefox<\/a>

Firefox Permissions Manager<\/p><\/div>\n

Chrome 14 beta<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not to be left out Google has also released a new version of its Chrome browser. Chrome 14 is now available as a beta version and sports one big change in particular: Native Client.<\/p>\n

Native Client is a new technology that allows C\/C++ code to be run inside Chrome. Using Pepper<\/a> Native Client adds C\/C++ capabilities to the Chrome browser taking it another step closer to being an operating system.<\/p>\n

For developers the addition of Native Client means that they are able to using existing C\/C++ code and experience to build richer web-based applications.<\/p>\n

There is some similarity between Native Client and Microsoft’s Active X technology, including the associated risks of adding this support to Chrome.<\/p>\n

Google says that to prevent problems it has included a dual sandbox environment to isolate potentially malicious plug-ins. Native Client also includes methods to prevent plug-ins from performing unauthorized actions, including using self-modifying code or attempting to directly access local files.<\/p>\n

\"Chrome<\/a>

Chrome 14<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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