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Actually, the non-block. David Carson’s post Android uses WebKit, reveals one reason why Safari 3 appears so much faster than the previous version: they simply don’t block rendering while waiting for resources that traditionally block other browsers. Current browser implementations normally block rendering while waiting to download stylesheets and external javascript as evidenced in the [...]

I keep up with “WebKit”:http://www.webkit.org builds an a daily basis and have noticed a marked upturn in their release schedule. For the past three months or so, I would normally see an updated build roughly every five days (I’m completely guesstimating here from memory). For the past four or five days, I have seen a [...]

The other Windows Webcore browser

VIM interface to Firefox. More power to you, but this gets tagged too much of a good thing.

Awesome idea, just wish it was generic so you could embed any browser, not just Moz.

Includes Widgets, tab thumbnails and Jesus on a pogo stick a built-in adblocker!

The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet has Opera as the built-in browser. Nice minimal design. Me likey.

Browser-y boys bury the hatchet on security. Opera rocks on [via Opera link blog].

I hadn’t noticed before, but Opera 8 Beta 3 now has “Greasemonkey”:http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org like functionality with the addition of “user javascript”:http://my.opera.com/hallvors/journal/44. I’m not sure which came out first, but I guess it really doesn’t matter. The irony is that I’m trying to write a greasemonkey script that makes Firefox behave more like Opera, and not the [...]

Neat Firefox plugin that attaches scripts to specific websites.

Great googly moogly! Google Maps now works with Opera. And because Opera has the fastest freaking javascript engine on the planet (”benchmark”:http://www.24fun.com/downloadcenter/benchjs/benchjs.html and “try it yourself”:http://maps.google.com), my only waiting time is for downloading the image tiles that make up the actual map page.

“Inserts preview images (thumbnails) of web sites, Amazon products and stock charts into the Google search results page.”