Technical: Browsers

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Friday, February 5, 2010

Browsers other than chrome and firefox

There are quite a few interesting and useful Graphical Web browsers for Linux.

Flock

Based on Firefox, Flock is branded the “Social Web Browser,” and includes a number of features for using social networking sites like Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, that aren’t included in Firefox.

Swiftfox

Speaking of performance, Swiftfox is a browser that’s near and dear to the performance junkies in the crowd. If you’re familiar with Firefox, then Swiftfox is going to look really familiar.

Epiphany

Epiphany is the default browser for the GNOME desktop. Back in the day it was based on Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine, but has switched to WebKit in recent releases. It’s small, fast, and simplified compared to Firefox and integrates well with the GNOME desktop.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Browser security reference

This is reference to key security properties of contemporary web browsers. Insufficient understanding of these often poorly-documented characteristics is a major contributing factor to the prevalence of several classes of security vulnerabilities.

http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Main

Monday, November 9, 2009

WebGL

WebGL is a standard specification currently being developed to display 3D graphics on web browsers. It enables hardware-accelerated rich 3D graphics in web pages without the need for special browser plug-ins, on any platform supporting OpenGL or OpenGL ES.

WebGL, is the evolution of work that Mozilla started a few years ago with experiments called Canvas 3D , essentially a way of accessing OpenGL from within the browser, through the HTML5 canvas tag.

Firefox Nightly Builds are avaialble here

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/