This project tries to incorporate all popular online map api's of Google Microsoft and Yahoo into one. offering you the same syntax for all of them and easy integration.

Mapstraction additionally fills some holes each provider's current offerings (taking advantage of existing open source solutions where possible) to normalise the feature set across platforms. In the future, Mapstraction will also talk…

“There’s a new beta for Flash Player 10 (Astro) available for Windows, Mac, and — you guessed it — Linux.” Drop-down menus, like the one on Adobe’s webpages, can now properly overlay Flash animations in both Firefox and Opera. There’s also better camera support, better language support and speed and stability improvements.

Performance seems to got better too. More instances of the plugin seem to have a lower impact in performance. Webcam had no improvement in my setup. I tested it with Kopete just to be sure everything was ok, the webcam is working fine with it….

A new collaborative study between Google, IBM, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology suggests that users are slower to move between product updates than they should be?especially those using Internet Explorer. The researchers believe that browsers could learn from the food industry, of all things.

The group of researchers includes several of their own suggestions for improving browser security. Firefox and Opera are both credited for including an auto-update feature, but the team notes that "Firefox’s auto-update…

14 hours of usage and over 1 million data points help the author benchmark 5 popular browsers–Safari, Firefox 3, Flock, Opera 9.5, and Internet Explorer 8. Firefox 3 has some impressive new numbers.

Many people load hundreds of web pages, sometimes at the same time, often over periods of 3+ hours. Users complain about the memory usage of Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer, and we need a way to identify which browsers are better at…

Social Poster allows you to submit a URL with a title, text amp; tags all at once to any 80 social websites of your choice. Its very easy to pick amp; choose which sites you want to post your content to. Almost all of the top social websites are supported on Social Poster.

I tested Social Poster out for myself & it’s truly is a convenience & time saver! I chose the “frame submit” option & it allowed me to go to each site that I chose to submit to, in one window…

You do this by typing “about:config” in the address bar of Firefox 3. Click thru confirmation page and find: gfx.color_management.enabled. Double click that until it says “true”. Then restart Firefox 3.

Actually, it does make a difference, but only if the images you're viewing have a specific color space defined, probably created using a workflow that included color management with a calibrated monitor. The idea (for the web) is to…

Two of the most popular Linux browsers were unveiled this month after years of development — the open source Firefox 3 and the proprietary Opera 9.5 … But Opera 9.5 is no less revolutionary than Firefox, matching its open source rival feature for feature

Another nifty time-saving feature is the wand, which stores autocomplete information, including passwords. Like with the new Firefox, the wand in Opera doesn't interfere with browsing, saving username and passwords in the background…

Firefox 3.0 improved supports for HTML5, CSS3, SVG, etc.. but the definitions are still not fully supported. The new version of Gecko improves on Javascript 2 compatability and adds better support for XUL applications, but we’re looking for a version with more native integration XHR (XMLHttpRequest)

Speaking of those updates, I’m looking forward to Firefox 3.1, code-named Shiretoko, which will be rolled out by the end of 2008. (You can download alpha 1 today.) This version of the browser will have more support for CSS3…

The official release of Firefox 3 has received widespread attention from the press and has gained a few unexpected allies, including television show host Stephen Colbert. In an episode of the Colbert Report that was aired on the same day as the Firefox 3 release, Colbert interviewed open Internet advocate Jonathan Zittrain, who encouraged Colbert t

During the segment, which can be viewed at the Comedy Central web site, Zittrain discusses the threat of malware and explains to Colbert that all it takes to compromise the security of a computer is to “visit the wrong web site, with the…

Firefox 3 ? available for download at 10am PDT Tuesday ? is the culmination of a two-year quest to build the best browser ever. And while its not perfect, it comes pretty close.

It’s a small enhancement, but it’s a noticeable one that many users will welcome. Older versions of Firefox were dressed in the same gray clothes no matter which operating system you ran. In Firefox 3, each OS gets its own skin…

When Mozilla vice president of engineering Mike Schroepfer visited us in May, he addressed the critical balance between a fast and light browser and a slow but feature-rich one by claiming Firefox 3s extension system enabled his team to take a hands-off approach.

One of Firefox’s most unique and powerful assets is its ability to install third-party add-ons. When Mozilla vice president of engineering Mike Schroepfer visited us in May, he addressed the critical balance between a fast and…

xB Browser is the free and open-source anonymous web browser. You're just a click away from anonymous surfing right now! Secure, anonymous surfing if you need it. Looks neat (inc. Browser plugins).

The main advantage compared to other anonymous web browsers is that xB Browser requires no configuration or technical knowledge in order to achieve anonymity. xB Browser is open-source so you can feel safe knowing what goes into xB Browser….

Mozilla is preparing for the official release of Firefox 3, which will land on June 17. Ars looks at add-on compatibility and some early plans for Firefox 3.1.

Many readers have asked about the status of Firefox 3 add-on compatibility and some have indicated that they won't be ready to upgrade until their favorite add-ons are supported. Mozilla Product Manager Alex Polvi has written a…

Meet Flock your new favorite browser. Flock browser is the social way to surf. Get started with Flock in two easy steps.

many thanks to Maki D Doshy Mich and the Plurk.com crew for helping us with flock resources and Flock.com for references.