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Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category

Shiny new browser

Browsers, Web

Google recently released a version of Chrome for the Android 4 OS. While it is always good to see the latest Web technology being extended to the (relatively confined) domain of mobile devices, one of the most welcome features of this latest mobile browser is its comprehensive developer support. With the help of a USB cable and a suitably configured PC, you can now effortlessly develop eye-watering mobile Web experiences. Included are all the usual favourites, such as DOM navigation, real-time DOM editing, real-time CSS editing, CSS enable/disable, call tracing, script debugging and so on.

The new Chrome is still in beta, and only available for the latest incarnation of Android, so the impact will not be felt as widely [click title to read more…]

Failfox

Browsers [ | ]

Firefox 4 is a memory hog. Over a period of a few hours, its memory consumption rose to approx 2Gb, at which point it became completely unresponsive. Since I needed to maintain a session for testing, it was very annoying that I had to kill the Firefox process. If this keeps up, I might have to use a different browser for testing.

With the task manager running, and Firefox active but doing absolutely nothing, the memory consumption grows by a few K every second. Such a pity. FF4 had a lot of promise, but I think we are going to see lots of complaints from users over the next few weeks. All of these issues should have been spotted and [click title to read more…]