The desktop browser wars are fiercer than ever, with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and *cough* Internet Explorer all in a heated race for users (and new features). But there’s a relatively new market that’s still ripe for a surge in browser innovation: mobile.
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Consumer device chip maker Broadcom has acquired SC Squareannounced over the weekend.
Broadcom will pay $41.9 million, net of cash, to purchase all of the outstanding shares of capital stock and other equity rights of SC Square, which provides a number of security chip and communication products and solutions.
Comments (0)Firefox 4 has been downloaded over 7 million times since its official release. This new avatar of the popular web browser from Mozilla stables makes extensive use of HTML 5 to render web pages. It also uses hardware acceleration when displaying HTML 5 pages - drawing on the power of a computer's graphics processor to improve the speed of complex visuals.
Less clutter - Firefox 4 has been re-designed to make it less intrusive, allowing for a much richer web browsing experience.
Panorama - It is intelligent tab grouping at its best. You can group tabs containing similar web pages and switch between the groups. Just press "Ctrl + Alt + E" to move into Panorama mode.
Private browsing - Now you can surf to your hearts content knowing that cookies are not stored on your machine thus giving you a semblance of privacy.
Improved security - Firefox 4 is not vulnerable to cross site scripting attacks as it supports HTTP Strict Transport Security, or HSTS.
Integrated Add-ons, Plugins, Appearance ,and Extensions dialog that opens in its own tab. You can install, uninstall, and manage all your extensions, plugins, and addons from this dialog.
Head over to Mozilla website to download Firefox 4.
