But Firefox OS isn't the last stop for the payment platform, as it'll be headed to the desktop browser and Firefox for Android soon.
The desktop browser extension largely stays out of your way until you need it, although we're surprised the social sharing elements are left out.
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Users are simply too familiar with this Web search pattern on a desktop browser to be ready for radical changes in the product for mobile.
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Onetime Web-browser startup Rockmelt, which once trumpeted its integration with Facebook, says its desktop browser had 4.5 million users but will be discontinued in the next few months.
Not only that, but you can inspect the code on any mobile device as if it were your desktop browser, which takes a lot of the guesswork out of debugging mobile browsers.
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With all of that said, very few of our readers are getting to a second page within a 24-hour period while accessing the site from a compatible desktop browser and reading approved content where the surveys are generating impressions.
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This is how it works: a customer on an online travel site who is searching for a flight on the desktop closes a browser on the desktop.
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Yahoo's hoping to hit the proverbial two birds tonight with Axis, which combines a desktop web browser extension (your choice of Chrome, Firefox or Safari) with a mobile app on the iPad and iPhone.
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This means enterprise users now have a three-way choice for office productivity: remote delivery of desktop applications, browser-based cloud solutions like Google Docs or the native, Microsoft-compatible LibreOffice suite that comes pre-installed.
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Google executives used the 3.5-hour keynote event today to announce new features in the Android mobile operating system and Chrome desktop operating system and browser.
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Users will now be able to drag-and-drop images from the desktop into the Google doc browser page directly.
When people click this View Later button, it syncs to their RockMelt browser on their desktop and can be read later.
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The bar intrudes into available desktop viewing space inside the browser and needs re-loading every time the user opens a new window, slowing surfing considerably.
In terms of specific verticals, Ng sees big opportunity for gaming, since browser-based game developers would be happy to get their apps in front of users on the desktop rather than having to go through the browser.
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The way we engage with our news and entertainment changed from print to the web, from the desktop to the phone, from browser to Kindle and Nook.
What would be a better way to expand their reach that claim not just the web browser, but the whole desktop?
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Search has had the same generic experience for over a decade, primarily tied to how the browser is used on the desktop.
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When the solution is live in October, Skype users will be able to purchase Skype Credits from desktop PCs and mobile devices, through browser-based purchases and in the future, through in-app functionality.
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Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 together mark a rare confluence for Microsoft: they represent the first instance of the company's desktop and phone platforms sharing the same browser base, and that has wide-reaching implications for what developers can do.
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Atari was the first video game, Visicalc the first desktop spreadsheet, and Mosaic the first Internet browser.
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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On the bright side, such substantial time frame suggests that the upcoming fix should also address other bugs like incompatibility with the desktop suite, weird loading behavior in the browser, and missing WMV video playback functionality.
Customers can still use Cloud Drive to store any of their files in the cloud and access them from any web browser or by using the Cloud Drive Desktop Apps.
And, indeed, in that same six months, these developers created more than 100 apps for the platform, including mobile clients for iOS, Android and even Windows Phone and Symbian, desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux and browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
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Almost all of this integration takes place on a desktop where cookies allow users to remain signed in between browser sessions.
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Microsoft fears that if applications increasingly reside on the Internet, rather than on the desktop, all that is needed to gain access to them is a browser and a basic operating system.
Moreover, switching between content on a desktop is easy and requires just typing in a new URL, or clicking on another open browser.
For me, I want the following desktop apps to run on my tablet: Wizard101 and Pirate101 games for my son, Google Chrome web browser, and Evernote.
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