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Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta

Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta

After a few months ago the alpha version of Yahoo Messenger 10 has come, now Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta was also attended officially. Yahoo Messenger 10, although the new beta, but already comes with some changes. Rows of these new features will also idolized enrich the user experience to chat.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Browser Available for Download

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2

A second beta is the upstart Firefox 3.1 browser, the Mozilla Foundation is available to testers late Monday.

Highlights include a new private browsing mode, which removes traces of Web sessions users want to keep secret, which is significantly faster JavaScript engine called the Trace Monkey, and more support for new web standards.

According to a Mozilla Developer Center blog post, Beta 2 is already available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux for more than 50 languages.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 was nearly three times as fast as version 3, taking 2689ms compared with the previous version, is 6535ms.

Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 also supports the more forward-looking Web standards, such as the W3C’s the geographical location of the JavaScript API. This allows the web-page questionnaire to the browser’s location and can be used to plot maps, give, pay the place of information, pictures and much more.

A link to download can be found on Mozilla’s Firefox 3.1 beta 2 announcement page.

Opera 10 alpha browser

Opera 10 alpha browser

Opera team has unveiled the alpha version of the Opera 10-browser, which is intended to shed light on the speed and characteristic of the new Presto 2.2 rendering engine.

The first public preview of Opera 10 is now available for download, and the first seems mainly to show off rendering speed Presto 2.2 resource-intensive sites. The browser quickly pass the Acid 3 Test, a feat that Opera first performed only in the year. In test, neither Firefox 3 nor Google’s Chrome browser could pass.

Also key to this release is in addition to a web standards-based Presto now supports. These include, among other things, Web Fonts, CSS 3-module uses custom fonts on the Web page that is not necessarily available to the visitor’s computer. Support for Alpha transparency and the “color: transparent” regulations have also been added.

For users already been built and Opera 10 has been added to the automatic spell checker in certain areas, such as Facebook wall comments, and the automatic update feature that keeps the browser to build the present one, when selected on.

Opera Mail, meantime, now supported by either the full HTML formatting or text-format e-mail and Dragonfly debugging tool has been improved so that the DOM editing and HTTP header inspection. [betanews]

Released Opera Mini 4.2 beta

Released Opera Mini 4.2 beta

Opera announced the release of its Opera Mini 4.2 works in the broad mobile phone models. It is available in a beta testing http://www.operamini.com/beta/

This is not the same as the Windows Mobile-native application Opera Mobile. Opera Mobile is more comfortable than the Opera Mini in some of the ways (supports the tabs / downloading files). But in most ways Opera Mini is the better (much faster rendering engine, dynamic zoom, makes most of the web pages just as the desktop browser, and completely free). Hopefully this will change when the Opera 9 will come out, but currently available version of Opera Mobile (8.65 Beta) is worse in many ways, Opera Mini.

Flock 2.0 Internet Browser

Flock 2.0 Beta Internet Browser

Flock, social web browser based on Mozilla Firefox is currently in beta and can be integrated with MySpace availability of data platform.

Flock 2.0 includes support for Media RSS and offers access to any social network, with Media RSS.

Social network users can have access to MySpace, Facebook, Digg, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket and Flock twitter over the Sidebar. Flock Media Bar is a feature at the top of the browser allows users to drag and drop photos and videos on MySpace user profile.

MySpace was the most requested service from the herd Community, which has been in beta, so it is understandable that Flock 2.0 will integrate the popular social network, to its new start. You can download Flock 2.0 here