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More Chrome goodness coming your way
- Tue, 22 May 2012
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Today’s Chrome Beta channel release is chock full of bug fixes. Thanks to automatic updates, you can sit back, relax, and let the goodness come to you.FG_AUTHORS: Google Chrome Blog...
Congratulations 2012 Firefox Flicks Winners!
- Thu, 17 May 2012
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We are excited to announce from the Cannes Film Festival that we have selected the global winners of our 2012 Firefox Flicks competition.
Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla, speaking alongside Couper Samuelson, Edward Norton and Shauna Robertson
2012 Firefox Flicks winners posing with celebrity judges and Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla
After calling on creatives, filmmakers and students to help us tell the story of Mozilla Firefox, we received more than 400...
Do Not Track Gains More Support around the Web
- Thu, 17 May 2012
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Editor’s Note: Mozilla today announced updated user and industry adoption of Do Not Track. Check out the blog post from Alex Fowler, Mozilla Global Privacy and Policy Lead. Excerpt below.
Mozilla introduced the Do Not Track header last year to give users more control over online tracking by third parties. Since launching Do Not Track, we have seen increased industry support and user adoption of the feature. Today, we are hosting a Do Not
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Now Recruiting for Weyland Industries: Internet Explorer Partners with Fox for “Prometheus” Movie
- Wed, 16 May 2012
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NOW HIRING. In preparation for the upcoming film Prometheus (in theaters on June 8), Weyland Industries is accepting applicants to join the crew of the Project Prometheus spaceship. Today, the Internet Explorer team is proud to announce our partnership with Fox Studios to create the Project Prometheus Training Center — designed entirely in HTML5 — giving fans the chance to demonstrate they are capable of being a crew member on the Prometheus shi...
Connect with Web Intents
- Tue, 15 May 2012
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Last year we proposed the Web Intents API to help web applications integrate with one another with minimal effort. We've now enabled an experimental version of the API in the most recent stable version of Chrome, to gather feedback from the web community and shape the future of the Web Intents API.This prototype version of Web Intents makes it easier for developers to try out the API and experience its benefits first hand:
- Developers who build ...
Keeping tabs on your tabs
- Tue, 15 May 2012
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Say you’ve found an awesome recipe on your work computer while... ahem... working hard at the office. But when you get back home, you can’t quite remember if it was two teaspoons of baking soda or two teaspoons of baking powder. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could pull up the same recipe on your home computer with one click?With today’s Stable release of Chrome, you can. When you’re signed in to Chrome, your open tabs are synced across all your...
Sharing Links from IE10 on Windows 8
- Mon, 14 May 2012
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Sharing a link to a Web page is a common activity on the PC, and it gets better with IE10 on Windows 8. One of the new features on Windows 8 is the Share charm, which allows you to seamlessly send content between apps on your PC. Previously, if you wanted to share an interesting article with your friend, or post a funny picture on your blog, you’d copy the link from the address bar, switch to a different site or app, and then paste it. Now, with...
New Dell TV Campaign Featuring Internet Explorer
- Mon, 14 May 2012
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This Sunday, Dell launched a new TV commercial in the US, and we’re excited that they’ve chosen to feature Internet Explorer. The ad does a nice job highlighting just how central the PC and the web have become in our family lives – bringing folks together to enjoy a game like Cut the Rope, view photos, or listen to music as a family.
Dell has always been a great partner and we’re honored that they have chosen to recommend IE along with some b...
Diagnosing JavaScript Errors Faster with Error.stack
- Thu, 10 May 2012
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IE10 in Windows 8 Consumer Preview includes support for Error.stack, which enables Web developers to diagnose and correct bugs faster, especially those that are difficult to reproduce. Developers can build amazing apps with the capabilities of Web platforms that power today’s modern browsers. In Windows 8, we expose that power through both Internet Explorer 10 and Metro style apps in JavaScript. The increasing power and complexity of these apps...
Windows on ARM Users Need Browser Choice Too
- Thu, 10 May 2012
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For the past eight years, users and developers have enjoyed a Windows platform environment that offered users a choice of browsers to navigate their digital lives. It wasn’t always that way. Prior to the launch of Firefox in 2004, there was really only one browser for Windows – Internet Explorer. Only IE and Firefox had meaningful market share on the Windows platform from 2005-2009. The choices further increased with the introduction of Ch...