While Internet Explorer and Firefox battle it out, Google has come from behind to launch its open source browser, Google Chrome. Google Chrome beta version will be released to the public in 100 countries today. In conjunction with this release of Google’s browser, details about Chrome can also be found in a 38-page online comic book in blogosphere. Users who intend to read the comic can get it here.

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After the release of Windows Internet Explorer Beta 1 (IE 8 Beta 1) which targeted web designers and developers on March 25, 2008, Microsoft now moves a step further to the release of its IE8 final version by releasing its IE 8 Beta 2. Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is available for download for various Windows OS such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Vista 32 bit edition, Windows Vista 64 bit edition, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. Besides that, this new version also supports Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), and German languages.

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Have you updated your Firefox 2 browser to Firefox 3? If you haven’t, prepare yourself to be nagged by Firefox from time to time reminding you to update your Firefox 2 to the latest version Firefox 3.0.1.

Firefox 2 users will be alerted with a nag screen to remind them that a newer version for Firefox is available and ready to be downloaded. Of course users will be given options to select “Later”, “Never” or “Get the New Version”. If you opt for the “Later” option, you will be reminded again after 24 hours. If you select “Get the New Version”, of course you can initiate the downloading process of Firefox 3 immediately. If you choose “Never”, don’t expect the notice to disappear forever. The nag notice will appear again in the near future.

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After applying to patent the term InPrivate with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office end of last month, one of the long speculated privacy tools, In Private, was finally affirmed by Microsoft and shown in its official blog (another tool is Cleartracks). As highlighted in the application form, InPrivate refers to “computer programs for disabling the history of file caching features of a Web browser, and computer software for notifying a user of a Web browser when others are tracking Web use and for controlling the information others can access about such use.” This new feature to be added to the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 is one of Microsoft’s key selling points for its new IE browser.

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Need a quick check on how many images have been downloaded or how fast is the downloading speed? Firefox users can download and enjoy a new plugin, Extended Statusbar 1.2.8 that is able to provide the useful information. Extended Statusbar 1.2.8 will display and indicate to users the number of loaded images, the size of the file downloaded, the average downloading speed, the load time and the percentage that has been downloaded.

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Firefox web browser has built-in password manager that able to save, store or remember user name, ID and password credentials to auto-fill and auto-complete the login or logon text fields on next and subsequent visits. However, on some sites, Firefox, including both Firefox version 2 and Firefox 3, fails or does not prompt and offer user a choice to remember and save the password, and hence won’t store the password for AutoComplete or AutoFill.

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The useful online private file storage and sharing service, Drop.io, now has introduced a Firefox plugin which allow users to enjoy this service better via their Firefox browser. By using the Firefox browser, this new Firefox addon will make dragging or dropping files become easier. The dragging and dropping work can be done just with a single click, from the browser’s toolbar.

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Occasionally, you may encounter problem of not able to access certain websites in Firefox. It could be due to the temporary web server problem or internet connection issue that may able to recover in short period. Instead of pressing the F5 button to refresh the webpage manually, now this tiny add-on program will able to help you in such a circumstance. Named as TryAgain version 3.2.0, it will keep trying to connect to the web server at a predefined intervals and trials automatically without the need of any user intervention.

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