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Chrome and Firefox Get Upgrades

This week is a big one for open source browsers, which, as we've pointed out many times, are responsible for most of the innovation going on in the browser arena. The first beta version of Firefox 3.6 is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and you can get it here. Meanwhile, Google has delivered a very fast new beta version of the Chrome browser, and it features bookmark syncing so that you can keep your bookmarks streamlined across multiple computers.


Opera Breathes Down Firefox's and Chrome's Necks With Unite

Opera Unite

Though the Opera browser isn't open source, it's free and its new server-in-a-browser feature, Unite, is really making significant inroads toward online collaboration. If Chrome and Firefox are to keep their edge over Opera, their development teams had better sit up and take notice.

Opera's Unite technology lets users run chat rooms, host Web sites, and share files that even people not using Opera can access. The interaction is all done via a central Opera Unite server ? Opera Unite uses a proxy between the server and its clients (found at operaunite.com) to avoid the need for any special firewall configuration, writes the development team. Unite launched today with six features but is calling on the Opera community to design and create any new services they'd like to see available.

Read on to have a look at what Opera unite can already do and why Google and Mozilla haven't cornered the market on browsers just yet.



Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate Delayed, But Imminent

Things are heating up in the browser wars, with open source leading the way. Google is out with alpha versions of its Chrome browser for the Mac and Linux, and while the Linux version needs some improvement, it is promising. The newest Windows version of Chrome is also much faster than previous versions. Meanwhile, Mozilla has pushed back its official release date for Release Candidate 1 of the Firefox 3.5 browser to June 10th. While I love the speed of Chrome and its ability to avoid crashing when a single tab crashes, I'm still betting that Firefox 3.5 will be the biggest browser story of the year.


Browser Chiefs Aiming Squarely At Web Apps

Is innovation in browsers where it should be? We've reported before on how most of the innovation is going on in open source browsers, as Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to lose market share. This week, at two separate conferences, officials from Google and Mozilla have weighed in on how browsers need to improve. Notably, they primarily agree, and their focus doesn't seem matched by Microsoft with Internet Explorer.


Google's O3D Joins Mozilla's Effort to Bring Rich 3D Environments to Browsers

Google is out with an open source browser plugin called O3D that provides a JavaScript API for building and displaying accelerated, rich, interactive 3D applications directly within browsers. There is a demo video available here showing surprisingly good 3D graphics running on a Mac, and the plug-in works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. In this blog post, Google makes clear that it is pushing O3D as a conversation starting point for an open web standard for 3D graphics. Mozilla is working on open source efforts in the same space, and some surprises could come quickly from these efforts.


Ask Not -- The Bell Is Not Tolling for Firefox Yet

Late last week, Sam took a close look at the rapidly changing browser landscape. In one of the posts linked therein, Keir Thomas speculates that Firefox may well have just given up the ghost, what with an alpha version of Chrome now being available for Linux (or, at the very least, Ubuntu).

I don't think it is, nor is it going to be, quite that easy. Firefox isn't without issue -- or momentum. And Chrome for Linux? In all reality, it doesn't exist, yet. Chrome may have a number of advantages over other browsers, including Firefox, on other platforms. But if it's still too early to call this fight on Windows, declaring the superior browser on Linux is pretty much a coin toss.



Flock Contemplates Migrating from Mozilla Code to Chrome

According to Mike Arrington at TechCrunch, several sources say that the Mozilla-based social browser, Flock, will soon shed its Mozilla code base and start using Google's Chrome framework for future releases.

Flock's CEO, Shawn Hardin, responded to Arrington's post, saying that the browser's upcoming 2.1 release is being developed, and will be released with, its traditional Mozilla underpinnings. Hardin does not explicitly say that Flock will move to Chrome, only that the browser space has been heating up rapidly in the last few months, and that the Flock development team will continue to make architectural decisions that balance what's best for our users and what's best for Flock as a business.



Firefox 3.1 Facing Late Arrival; Will It Ship With TraceMonkey?

Digital Arts Online has a thorough break down of some of the snags the Firefox development team has encountered as it continues work on the browser's 3.1 release. TraceMonkey, the JavaScript engine that's responsible for the browser's performance boost, seems to be what's holding its actual release back.

According to the forum posts the article points to, both Firefox developers and those focusing specifically on TraceMonkey agree that a decision has to be made -- but whether it's better to release Firefox 3.1 without TraceMonkey, release Firefox with TraceMonkey disabled by default, or give the developers a set amount of time before making the decision at all -- might be a sticking point.



Firefox Version 3.1 Beta 3 is in Tests: What About Version 3.2?

It may not be perfectly stable yet, but if you've been following along with the beta releases of Mozilla's Firefox 3.1 browser, you can now get and test the candidate for Beta 3, as described here. Mozilla is calling for a Test Week for this latest version. Beta 3 was scheduled to be out on February 2nd, but bug fixes were required. Meanwhile, PC Pro has an interesting story up in which Firefox architect Mike Connor describes plans for version 3.2 of Firefox.


Impact Mozilla Yields Instructive Findings for Firefox, and OSS Overall

In late December, Mozilla announced the winner of its Impact Mozilla campaign, which was a far reaching effort to get community members, including new members such as previously uninvolved MBA students, to contribute ideas for how to improve Mozilla's marketing efforts. The winners of the competition were Phani Kumar Vadrevu and Uttam Byragoni of India, for their Fox For All marketing plan, which, in addition to proposals, includes a number of surprising statistics about usage of the Firefox browser. The Impact Mozilla campaign strikes me as a good idea for many types of open source projects, which often have less-than-ideal marketing surrounding them. Here's a look under the hood of the campaign and the Fox For All plan.


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