It appeared at the top of the right-hand column of the browser version of my homepage.
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If users want a portable copy of detailed driving directions, they can print Google turn-by-turn directions from the browser version or view them in the Roadtrippers iPhone app.
Still, in the first few weeks or months of owning your Window 8 device, you might find yourself making do with less familiar alternatives, or just loading up the browser version of the app.
Tests were performed used a Macintosh computer running Apple's operating system (OSX Lion) and Web browser (Safari version 5.1.3) with the default settings enabled.
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My biggest problem was with the Web browser, a mobile version of Internet Explorer.
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Today, Opera Software launched the Opera Mini 7 web browser in a final version for the Android platform.
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While the company's custom WebKit browser loaded the full version of Engadget without issues and played our Flash videos just fine, it was less responsive than surfing the web on an older Chromebook, and that was just with one tab open.
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It is, however, a much cleaner interface than the basic webpage version of Ad Browser.
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More important, the start-up has convinced Microsoft to integrate RealNames into the latest version of its browser.
RockMelt has just released a new version of the browser, RockMelt Beta 2, with several changes in response to requests from users.
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It said that group of people were most likely to be using the crash-prone version of Internet Explorer as that was the most recent version of the browser for that operating system.
Recently people using version 6 of the browser were advised to find an alternative due to large security holes.
RockMelt is releasing a new iPhone version of its media browser app, as it moves beyond its original web browser focus.
Most significantly, the new version brings a web browser with HTML5 support.
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The PeeWee security software allows parents to limit how much time their children spend browsing the internet (on a daily or weekly basis), block inappropriate sites with any version of any web browser, take screen shots, view browsing history, and even control the laptop remotely.
The company recently launched a new version of its PC web browser.
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This has been a boon to two small browser-makers, Opera, a Norwegian software company, and Mozilla, which developed the Firefox browser based on an open-source version of Netscape.
He expected there to be great interest in Firefox 3.0 because most users of the browser tend to upgrade to the latest version as soon as it comes out.
On the one hand, he noted that Microsoft has a long history of providing cross-platform applications. (You can run Office on the Mac, for instance.) And he also noted that you can run the limited function Web-based version of Office in a browser on basically any device at all, including iPads and iPhones, to read documents and do some light editing.
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The new version of the Bold has a browser that should have enticed Blackberry users into doing a lot more browsing.
This updated version includes support for the Opera browser.
Apple released the latest version of its Mac and Windows browser, Safari 5, with nary a peep about it from Apple Chief Steve Jobs during his keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Monday.
Kissmetrics was inserting supercookies into users' browser caches and into files associated with the latest version of the standard programming language used to build Web pages, known as HTML5.
Now comes Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's latest would-be Google-toppling tactic (after his failed bid to take over Yahoo): a sneak attack using the newly launched version of Microsoft's dominant Web browser, Internet Explorer.
Jumping between pages as quickly as you can type, this mobile browser "talks" with your desktop's version of Google Chrome, letting you sync-up bookmarks and even view the same tabs you have open on your computer.
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Mozilla has released its Firefox 4 Beta 9 web browser a month ahead of the planned launch of its full version in February.
The new browser, available in Arabic, English, and a French version in development, will be pre-installed and available via download on Android devices across Orange's African footprint in 2013.
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The new Kindle Fire family uses a new version of Amazon Silk with the unique "split browser" architecture that leverages the computing speed and power of Amazon Web Services to deliver content faster.
On Friday, Google followed up with a blog post giving step-by-step directions to consumers for how to access a less robust version of Google Maps through Apple's mobile Web browser.
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