Firefox becomes the default browser of 400,000 IBM employees
A few hours ago, IBM announced a major change in its computers: Firefox browser will now default on desktops over 400,000 employees.
A new pet who comes in the direction of hair loss a browser full speed. The Mozilla software is indeed stagnating since reaching the 25% market share in November. The latest figures even show a slight decline, puisquee Firefox is used by 24.30% of Internet users in June 2010. And despite the arrival a few months ago the bundle Windows screen (which lets you choose the browser).
Competition is fierce, and Chrome (Google's rival) has quite a success. It is also now the third world browser.
However, the choice of IBM stopped on Firefox. Why? The software:
- est extrêmement compatible avec les standards ouverts du web
- est open source et son développement assuré par une communauté qui n'est pas contrôlée par une entité commerciale
- est sécurisé
- propose des extensions qui peuvent être personnalisées par des organisations comme IBM
- est innovant et a forcé la main à la compétition pour s'améliorer
Source : Bob Sutor's blog (IBM Linux and open source responsible)
WebM in Firefox
The new open-source video codec appeared in a developer version of the browser
So far everyone was in agreement (except Apple) about Webm, the new codec from the open-source Google VP8. But the question of license (see elsewhere) had caused some problems for the beginning of its implementation in browsers.
These problems are now resolved and keeps his word and Mozilla Firefox integrating Webm 4.To be more precise, Mozilla includes support for this codec in a fairly unstable pre-release that can be found on the "nightly-builds", the ftp the latest development versions being updated daily by the foundation.
"If you are looking for videos Webm test, you can watch on YouTube Webm HTML5 experiement with the nightly builds, advises Chris Pearce, developers at Mozilla.There is still a little early to compare the performance videos of this version with those of Chrome (which he is also a version for developers) but is not essential.The important thing in this announcement is that the motion for adoption is indeed well underway.
Apple's side continues to support the H.264 and has not yet officially announced his intentions on Webm.
Source : Chris Pearce's post
Internet Explorer 9 faster than Safari 5?
They say that, sometimes, development teams are likely.
At the launch of Safari 5 (yesterday), Apple did not lose to emphasize that his browser was much faster than its main competitors, namely Chrome and Firefox.
No word, however, Internet Explorer, superbly ignored.
Microsoft responded today with a small video that there is no comparison with four path: Internet Explorer 9 is fast, very fast, very fast. So much faster than Safari 5 bear bad (or no) comparison.
While it is still a bit early to make a real opinion (EI 9 is still in its second preview release), it is clear, however, that Microsoft's browser will make up part of the hardware acceleration (using the GPU and not the CPU) for video and other multimedia content (including Flash).
Note that Safari 5 does not offer this type of technology (hence the test results from Microsoft).
In contrast to the JavaScript (subject not addressed in the video), Safari 5 should continue to hold its own in the game
Anyway, the message is clear. The next time Apple decides to denigrate its competitors, thank you for not forgetting Microsoft.
The video is on this page (requires Silverlight).
Firefox 4, what’s expected?
The specification of Firefox 4 is full.
We already knew that the GUI is completely redesigned (see above). We now know more about the rest of the browser.
Mike Beltzner, director of development of the Mozilla Foundation, has set many goals yesterday to reach during a Webcast as a roadmap.
The most important goal is certainly one of the power and speed.
The power of a browser includes many fields, none of which will, according to him, neglected.
The support for Windows Direct2D example , or the future of HTML 5, as far as they are, for example, fall into account both to April 1 of Firefox browser "powerful".
A 64-bit version would also (and some would say finally) to the study.
To (re-) make a fast, management of content in JavaScript will not suffice. Even if in this field Mozilla intends to double our efforts to meet increasing performance bluffing the competition (including Opera and Chrome).
The time to launch the browser should also be shortened. An excellent short story called your vows (if you believe your comments on this forum).
The reactivity (opening or closing a new tab for example.) Is also on the table.
But speed is not just pure performance history. Mike Beltzner said that the new UI of Firefox 4 will also participate in the perception of speed (loading bar redesigned pages, etc..).
In short, the Panda Roux will not be left behind (at least he will try).
But Firefox is also and above all remain a browser that innovates.
It is the goal, for example, future feature called "Account Manager" which will centralize logins and passwords. An innovation of which we still know relatively little about (except that it is to avoid to go through the identification pages of online services).
Recall that the philosophy of Mozilla is that of confidentiality .. The data synchronization via the Weave service is fully encrypted and such can use any server chosen by the user (not necessarily those of Mozilla). Unlike the browser from Google.
A fundamental difference Nitot, the founding president of Mozilla Europe, told us recently wanting to put forward to differentiate Chrome.
Appointment is made for the first beta of Firefox 4 which should arrive in late June.
As for the final, she is currently scheduled for October or November and not 2011 as previously announced. A date still highly likely to be postponed based on development problems.
Sources :
developpez.com
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