A month after the  preview of Opera 10.5 alpha, and Beta, comes the Stable 10.5 for windows. Opera claims it’s latest offering, Opera 10.5 Stable,  to be the fastest Browser on Earth for Windows. But the same is true for every platform. Update: Opera 10.5 Stable for Windows Released at Read further »

It was hardly a few days back when Chrome 4 became stable and now comes the new version. Chrome is growing fast, within time-span of 2 years, it hits v5 in the developer builds. The list of changes so far is fairly small for PC users. But the javascript performance improvement is again noticeable. On the contrary, Mac users will notice a bit more of a difference, with fixes addressing plugin stability and crashing while dragging tabs, a slightly improved cookies manager, and minor tweaks to Chrome’s task Read further »

Just how bad can an Internet Browser be? Internet Explorer 8 and lower showed the world that a browser can have poor underlying javascript execution engines, lack of Modern web support (HTML5, CSS3) and poor threads that render webpages sluggishly for most users. What is HTML 5 and FAQ Things are going to change, Microsoft yesterday at  PDC 09 told the world that they want to change the face IE had been living with. With IE 9 Microsoft has Read further »

I love Windows 7 but I can’t give up by favorite Linux OSeither. So, I finally decided to do a Performance Benchmark Showdown to decide who gets to rule on my PC. Probably, everyone knows what’s new in both of them. I’ve thought long and hard about usage comparison, Windows proves out to be higher on ease of use. On the other side I have years of Windows experience and a lot less with Ubuntu but I still can work with Read further »

Chrome’s impressive success on Windows platform has grabbed huge interest in the Google’s browser among the web enthusiasts, geeks and developers.  Primary Reasons: Speed, and more recently, Extensions on Chrome 4. But if you don’t like Windows 7, don’t worry, Chrome is becoming better on Snow Leopard Recently, we have seen pre-beta builds (chromium) appearing for Linux and Mac. I must admit, I was less than impressed. Read further »

The race of browsers had been inevitable since the launch of Chrome. Google came out of no-where and gave public the fastest browser, leaving Firefox and Safari in shame. The developers at Mozilla continue to innovate and fine-tune their Javascript execution engine. Mozilla , next week, is rolling out first Firefox 3.6 public Beta. The Release is supposed to be the first one, Read further »

WP SuperCache pretty much does a very good job at speeding up wordpress blogs. By preparing static HTML pages from the original PHP and Mysql executions, a big performance improvement is observed. Misconception: I don’t need caching For a typical theme in wordpress, it needs to execute about 35 SQLs and 1000 of lines of PHP logic to yield a single page. Sure, modern servers are fast enough to do all this in split seconds. But when it comes to handling large traffics, like from Digg, Reddit,etc. it could easily prove out to be an overkill for the CPU. Put a Xeon or Core i7, just nothing would be able to handle 1000 simultaneous hits, without delays. WP SuperCache It’s Read further »

Java is one of the language which has overhauled it’s underneath technology ground-up. Even though, the basic concept of running inside JVM holds good, the way JVM handles Objects, Memory management has completely been revamped. A lot  changed over 1.4 to 1.5. There were critical compile-time improvements, Runtime smartness and with Java 6 more performance optimizations; Java 7 – the modularity. Let’s start discussing each aspect of Java 7 which makes it go Loud - Modularization – JSR 294 or Project Jigsaw JVM Support for dynamic languages More New I/O APIs which are nearly finished, includes true asynchronous I/O  and finally a real Read further »

Optimus Prime has returned to save the World from The Fallen! Microsoft lost it’s long built impression with Windows Vista. Vista is the best example of a Software development failure. It showed the world, no matter how good your hardware is, your software is crappy, you cant do anything, it will fail to perform. Windows 7 RTM [Final] Review. Benchmark vs. XP, Vista Microsoft learned lessons, and this time before coming up with Launch of Windows 7, they had their Home Work done properly. What does it mean for you? You will get a better OS than what you Read further »

Are you tired of slow and sluggishness of Firefox when you need it the most? Try Arora, and you won’t regret. It is a Cross Platform – Windows/Mac/Linux/Embedded Linux/FreeBSD – Lightweight web browser uses the same rendering engine as Google Chrome and Safari, but works on almost any platform. Arora uses the QtWebKit port of the fully standards-compliant WebKit layout engine. Apart from the must-have features, Arora also Features that browsers like Firefox and Chrome do: blazing fast startups smart location bar , session management privacy mode download manager Set of tools for web developers – Debugging 30 Regional Languages The browser offers most of the features of mainstream browsers, Read further »