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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.



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.



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.


Mozilla's "What If..." Situation

The Mozilla Foundation's Mitchell Baker reported yesterday that Mozilla's revenues were up approximately 12% in 2007 over 2006. She also mentions a few matters that are worrisome. Though eWeek's Joe Wilcox's predictions of Firefox's demise are premature and without a doubt require a sizeable grain of salt, he makes a good point concerning revenues coming from Google versus Google's commitment to the Chrome browser.



OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

According to Yahoo co-founder David Filo, hack day represents Yahooﾒs new open source strategy....

Could control be the key to Google's Android?.....

Open mobile platforms--vulnerable to attacks?.....

Does interoperability violate the GPL?.....

Interview: Frank Hecker of Mozilla on open source.....



MIT Students Impress Google with Android Apps

The Associated Press has an interesting story out today about a group of MIT students who set out to show the power of open cell phone systems. MIT professor Hal Abelson challenged them to design an application for cell phones based on Android, Google's upcoming Linux-based mobile operating system. According to the AP story: In the process, they revealed the power of an open system like Android to shake up the mobile phone industry, where wireless companies are being pressured to loosen the control they have maintained over what devices do. Is there something to this?