Google Chrome’s tab sync is a really nifty feature and today they’ve extended it to the stable version of Chrome 19. The desktop version can sync opened tabs in real time so that users can access those sites from any other PC or device running Chrome browser.

A user needs to associate his Google account with the browser and access those tabs under the New Tab page on the desktop version or under Other Devices when accessing on Android.

[Via Chrome Blog]

Opera Inc. has announced Opera 11.50 aka Swordfish browser for desktops. The updated Opera boasts an improved design which is said to be more clean and streamlined and comes with other features like Speed Dial extensions that allows users to save their favourite extensions on the Speed Dial, in addition to websites.

Additionally, Opera Link now allows to save passwords, has an improved software graphics engine with faster CSS and SVG rendering and developer-friendly.

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Opera Mini has played a very important role in the success of Opera Software. The Norwegian company has now announced that this nifty little browser – responsible to improve browsing experience on feature phones – has surpassed 100 million monthly users. This means more than 100m users used the Opera Mini browser on their phones to surf over two billion page views.

Opera Mini is a browser that works on almost all mobile phones and features tabbed browsing, speed dial, password manager and compression technology to compress web pages by up to 90 percent to deliver webpages faster.

Opera just launched its Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11 browser for mobile devices. It’s a major launch for Opera as both the browsers are now available for almost all mobile platforms including Symbian, Java/J2ME, Blackberry, Android, MeeGo and Windows 7 tablets.

Opera has managed to make the new browsers faster and smoother and are touted as “the sweetest thing since Opera Mini 5 browser.” Other new features include pinch-to-zoom, URL sharing that can be done via email, social networks etc and also works fine with tablets running on Android as well as MeeGo.

You can download the browser from http://m.opera.com.

Norway-based Opera Inc. has released the latest version of its Opera desktop browser. The Opera 11.10 codenamed as Barracuda is touted to have smarter features and faster performance over its predecessors.

The beta version which can be downloaded from Opera’s website brings in features like an improved Speed Dial that now removes the limit on the number of speed dials, better plug-in support, CSS3, Web Open Font Format (WOFF) and Google’s WebP image protocol support.

Opera 11.10b

As expected, Microsoft has released the consumer-grade version of Internet Explorer 9. The browser is available for download for Windows Vista and Windows 7 at http://beautyoftheweb.com in 39 different languages.

The new IE9 is far ahead when you compare it with previous generations of IEs with an all new clean UI, hardware acceleration, HTML5 support, faster JavaScript engine, Tracking Protection and more.

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Despite Internet Explorer having the majority of the market share, they had built a notorious reputation over the years due to the product’s clumsiness. Good news is this will change on March 14 as Microsoft has confirmed to release the final build of Internet Explorer 9 at 9AM PST, exactly after a year from first Platform Preview.

Unlike previous iterations of IE, IE9 is fast and competitive to other modern browsers and boasts lots of features like faster JavaScript engine, inPrivate browsing, Tracking Protection, ActiveX Filtering etc.

[Via WindowsTeamBlog]

Google has released a stable version of its Chrome browser. Version 10 that was in beta for couple of weeks has been released for masses featuring some nifty additions. Although Chrome has obvious speed improvements under the hood, it is the interface that makes the update special.

Chrome has got a new settings interface that now opens as tab and shows off the URL of the page for quicker and easier sharing. The settings page has also got a search bar to quickly search through settings.

Another improvement is the sandboxing technique. Chrome now sandboxs Adobe’s Flash Player to enhance security and thwart any kind of malware expected from Flash.

Existing Chrome users will be updated to the latest version whereas consumers waiting to try out Google’s browser can download from the link below.

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The Release Candidate of Internet Explorer 9 is now available for download from Microsoft. The Release Candidate or better known as the RC version is a proof that MS’ IE9 browser is ready for primetime and a similar version could be released as the final build.

Anyways, the current RC is available at the link below in 40 different languages and adds in many new features to improve performance, user experience and safety for consumers.

The RC is faster overall, consumes less memory than previous versions, support for various emerging web standards like CSS3 2D Transforms, HTML5 Geolocation, UI improvements, One Box search and more importantly, tracking protection that allows consumers to choose what information should be sent to different websites.

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[Via MSDN]

There’s not much to see here if you use beta builds of Chrome browser but if using the software without the beta tag is what you prefer, Google has released a stable build of Chrome 9.

The new build concentrates on three features — WebGL that brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics; Chrome Instant which is nothing but Google Instant; and Chrome Web Store to download various apps, extensions etc.

You can download the latest version by visiting http://google.com/chrome or if you use Chrome, the browser should automatically update itself.