{"id":398359,"date":"2010-03-06T23:07:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T04:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/?p=20007"},"modified":"2010-04-27T22:08:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:08:18","slug":"reality-of-microsoft%e2%80%99s-browser-ballot-screen-adblock-plus-best-add-on-geolocation-in-chrome-browser-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/398359","title":{"rendered":"Reality of Microsoft\u2019s Browser Ballot Screen, Adblock Plus: Best Add-on, Geolocation in Chrome [Browser Saturday]"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The reality of Browser Ballot Screen<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/microsoft\/windows-7-browser-ballot-screen-to-goes-live-lobbyists-want-to-take-it-global.html\">Windows 7 Browser Ballot Screen went live<\/a> for European Union, and as expected Microsoft is not ready to lose the game so easily. <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tech-news\/microsoft-tracking-browser-ballot-screen-downloads.html\">Microsoft is tracking user clicks<\/a> and the algorithm to decide random appearance of browsers is also being criticized.<\/p>\n<p>Now, <em>Download Squad<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadsquad.com\/2010\/03\/05\/gang-of-six-browsers-petition-eu-for-immediate-review-of-brows\/\" >revealed<\/a> another fact about Browser ballot screen: 5 out of 7 &#8217;secondary&#8217; browsers featuring in ballot screen use Microsoft&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trident_%28layout_engine%29\" >Trident rendering engine<\/a>! A <a href=\"http:\/\/boagworld.com\/forum\/comments.php?DiscussionID=5291\" >comment<\/a> posted by richquick in a forum has attracted attention towards this fact. Avant, Green Browser, Maxton, Slim and Sleipnir use the Trident engine, and hence 6 (<em>including IE<\/em>) out of 12 (i.e.; 50%) browsers provided through the Browser ballot screen are powered by Microsoft technology.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox, Flock and K-Melon run on Gecko, the open source browser rendering engine developed by Mozilla. Moreover, Sleipnir provides an option to switch to Gecko, and Maxthon is planning to support WebKit in future.<\/p>\n<h3>Adblock Plus is the Best Open Source Firefox add-on<\/h3>\n<p>Firefox add-on <em>Adblock Plus<\/em> is the most essential tool to browse internet safely. Recently , Adblock Plus has been awarded the Linux Media Award for the best open source Firefox extension. Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/adblockplus.org\/blog\/linux-media-award-for-adblock-plus\" >Wladimir Palant<\/a>! <img src='http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' \/> <\/p>\n<h3>Google Chrome gets Geolocation capabilities<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Geolocation in Chrome\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/arpit\/BrowserSaturday_A9E0\/geolocationchrome.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Geolocation in Chrome\" width=\"475\" height=\"84\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google Chrome dev channel has integrated geolocation APIs. It will help &#8220;location-aware&#8221; websites to track visitor&#8217;s geographical information and serve content accordingly.<\/p>\n<h3>Firefox Personas Are Coming To AMO Soon<\/h3>\n<p>Mozilla has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.com\/addons\/2010\/03\/03\/the-future-of-personas\/\" >decide<\/a> to upgrade Personas by migrating the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getpersonas.com\/en-US\/\" >entire gallery<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\" >addons.mozilla.org<\/a> (AMO). Moving to the AMO will integrate Personas with the Firefox ecosystem to a greater extent. Featuring in AMO will enable many existing AMO features with the Personas; like ratings and reviews, usage statistics, designer profiles for developers, support for more languages, tagging and searching etc.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla is also planning to add more new features to the Personas, like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Theme capability<\/li>\n<li>Dynamic Personas<\/li>\n<li>Personas for subwindows<\/li>\n<li>Self hosted Personas, similar to recently introduced &#8220;Self hosted Add-ons&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px\">\n<strong>Share:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/reality-of-microsoft-browser-ballot-browser-saturday-3.html#commentrespond\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Comment on This Post<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?source=techiebuzz&#038;status=Reality%20of%20Microsoft&#8217;s%20Browser%20Ballot%20Screen,%20Adblock%20Plus:%20Best%20Add-on,%20Geolocation%20in%20Chrome%20%5bBrowser%20Saturday%5d%20http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbwcGis%20via%20@techiebuzzer\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Tweet This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/reality-of-microsoft-browser-ballot-browser-saturday-3.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Share on Facebook<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/reality-of-microsoft-browser-ballot-browser-saturday-3.html&#038;title=Reality%20of%20Microsoft&#8217;s%20Browser%20Ballot%20Screen,%20Adblock%20Plus:%20Best%20Add-on,%20Geolocation%20in%20Chrome%20%5bBrowser%20Saturday%5d\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Save to Delicious<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/reality-of-microsoft-browser-ballot-browser-saturday-3.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Stumble This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?phase=2&#038;url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/reality-of-microsoft-browser-ballot-browser-saturday-3.html&#038;title=Reality%20of%20Microsoft&#8217;s%20Browser%20Ballot%20Screen,%20Adblock%20Plus:%20Best%20Add-on,%20Geolocation%20in%20Chrome%20%5bBrowser%20Saturday%5d\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Digg This<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/reality-of-microsoft-browser-ballot-browser-saturday-3.html&#038;title=Reality%20of%20Microsoft&#8217;s%20Browser%20Ballot%20Screen,%20Adblock%20Plus:%20Best%20Add-on,%20Geolocation%20in%20Chrome%20%5bBrowser%20Saturday%5d\" rel=\"bookmark\" >Reddit This<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong style=\"font-size:11px;\">TAGS:<\/strong> <span style=\"text-transform:uppercase;font-size:11px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/browser-ballot\" rel=\"tag\">browser ballot<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/european-union\" rel=\"tag\">European union<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/firefox\" rel=\"tag\">Firefox<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/google-chrome\" rel=\"tag\">Google Chrome<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/internet-browsers\" rel=\"tag\">Internet Browsers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/internet-explorer\" rel=\"tag\">Internet Explorer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/tag\/personas\" rel=\"tag\">Personas<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/small><\/div>\n<div style=\"background:#E1E1E1; border: dotted 1px; padding:5px; margin-top:5px;font-size:11px\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/browsers\/reality-of-microsoft-browser-ballot-browser-saturday-3.html\" title=\"Reality of Microsoft&#8217;s Browser Ballot Screen, Adblock Plus: Best Add-on, Geolocation in Chrome [Browser Saturday]\">Reality of Microsoft&#8217;s Browser Ballot Screen, Adblock Plus: Best Add-on, Geolocation in Chrome [Browser Saturday]<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\" title=\"Techie Buzz\">Techie Buzz<\/a> written by Arpit Kumar on Saturday 6th March 2010 11:07:29 PM. 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