One of the major new feature introduced in recently released Firefox 4.0 is the browser's ability to make use of computer's hardware capabilities to offer better text-rendering using hardware graphic acceleration, to make most out of this new feature Firefox addon "Anti-Aliasing Tuner" is here allowing customization of various Direct2D/DirectWrite text rendering parameters for personalized optimal results.

Mozilla Firefox 4 has made it's way to the final release, and while most of the addons are compatible with the new update few still needs updation. There could be two reasons for an addon not to work with Firefox 4 - the first being it got functionally broken because of the new changes made in Firefox 4 (very rare), and secondly the developer has not yet updated/declared the addon to support the updated firefox version. Luckily, we have a fix for the second problem as shown below.

Final build for Mozilla's major update of their web-browser Firefox 4 will officially get revealed on 22 March, but as expected the build had already made it's way to Mozilla's official FTP servers and can be downloaded right now.

For users with the older version of the web-browser, Firefox 4 brings in lots of new features, the most notable being a completely revamped new streamlined user interface, enhanced performance, support for newest open Web technologies, hardware acceleration, jet-powered JaegerMonkey JavaScript engine, built-in Sync, restartless add-ons, and Panorama workspace management.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 has now reached it's Final RTM milestone and is all set for the prime-time, if the brand new user-interface is giving you some tough times figuring things out here is a nifty little tweaker for IE9 letting you tinker those small customization as per your personal preference.

In my quest to get the fastest possible experience with our beloved Firefox web-browser here we have another trick to get upto 2x faster start-up of Firefox on Windows OS, Firefox addon "Start Faster" does exactly what it's name suggests making use of some clever tinkering with core OS "prefetch" functionality to make the web-browser loading time faster.

Firefox Load Time Before Using "Start Faster"

We want our web-browsers to be as fast as possible, we have shared tips on various optimizations aiming to make Firefox faster like the CPU optimized Pale Moon Project, SpeedyFox, Firefox memory optimizers and BarTab.

Today we have another nifty little tool which optimizes your Firefox install by removing unwanted language files from Extensions making start-up faster.

Opera Team posted a teaser to the upcoming Opera Desktop Web-browser v 11.10 which is code-named "Barracuda", while no information regarding any expected feature of release dates were disclosed the Opera Team said that the first snapshot build of Barracuda will be made available in the near future, and take another popular Opera feature to the next level.

Opera Blog Announcement :

Microsoft has finally unveiled another major milestone to final release of Internet Explorer 9 by making IE9 Release Candidate download available for everybody. The "Release Candidate" build features a new ActiveX filtering system which allows users to “turn off ActiveX” for all sites and then re-enable it on site by site basis, on the UI part users can now have tabs on a separate line from address bar, apart from these changes many improvements were done in overall web-browser performance, standards & platform support, user experience and security as detailed next.

Any new leaked build of Internet Explorer 9 makes news across blogsphere, unlike previous leaks after IE9 Beta brand new build "Internet Explorer 9.00.8073.6010" has not made it's way to public but a Russian website Winreview.ru has leaked current screenshots showing notable UI changes.

Skyfire is a popular mobile web-browser available on Windows Mobile, Google Android, and Symbian platforms, unlike other mobile web-browsers Skyfire renders requested webpages on a proprietary server and then relays the result to end user's mobile phone. Using the same server-side rendering technology Skyfire is now available on Apple iOS letting users enjoy Adobe Flash powered videos on webpages which is not natively supported. While Flash has already been ported to some extent on iOS via Project Frash but Skyfire is available via official Apple Store and does not require a jailbroken phone to work like Frash.