Firefox 1.5 RC1 has been released this week, RC2 should be coming in another 8 days or so and should be pretty much the same as the 1.5 final release. [Download RC1]
Here’s a good Firefox extension I came across this morning, IE Tab, it allows you to open pages within Firefox using the IE browser engine, all you need do is click the icon in either the status bar or menu bar and you can switch immediately between the Firefox engine & the IE engine. Security concerns aside it’s a damn useful extension and a handy alternative to IE View which allows you to open web pages in IE via the context menu.
Opera have recently (I’m a bit behind the times) released Opera Mini, a lightweight browser for mobile phones normally incapable of running a browser. Their regular mobile browser runs only on Series 60 & Windows mobile phones. With Opera Mini web pages are pre-processed on a remote-server before being sent to the mobile phone, which makes it ideal for phones with very low resources or low bandwidth connections. The browser is currently available for free to users in the Nordic countries. Of course, my system being what it is (crap) I’ve so far been unable to download the feckin’ thing.
Firefox update: According to ZD Net Firefox has achieved over 10% of the browser market share for the first time, reaching a global market share high of 11.5%! IE of course still leads the way with 85.5%.
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