Jim Rapoza

By pretty much any measure, Mozilla’s Firefox browser has been a huge success. Firefox is one of the most successful open-source applications of all time, second only to the Apache Web server. And in just a few short years, Firefox has been able to take significant market share away from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, a task […]

Opera recently announced a new technology that it is including as essentially an alpha within the beta of the Opera 10 browser. And in its announcement, Opera claimed that this new technology, called Unite, would reinvent the way that everyone uses the Web. After using Unite for the last week, I’m not sure if I […]

Labs Gallery: Opera Unite Offers Intriguing Possibilities by Jim Rapoza Unite Installation Once a user installs the Opera 10 beta that includes the Opera Unite alpha, he or she must first log into or create an account on an Opera online service to activate and use Unite. Opera Web Address Once Unite is enabled, users […]

I’m looking to buy some servers. Along with my standard concerns about hardware specifications and what software I’ll run on the servers, I also have to consider what ISPs the servers can work with. This Hewlett-Packard server is really nice, but HP has an exclusivity deal with Comcast. And while I also like the IBM […]

eWEEK Labs Looks Back at 7 Years of the Mozilla Browser by Jim Rapoza Mozillas Debut In 2002, after three years of development, the open-source Mozilla browser was released to the public. A suite of tools including a browser, an HTML editor, and an e-mail and news reader client, Mozilla 1.0 was a superior browser […]

Apple Safari 4 Is Like Whole New Browser By Jim Rapoza Top Sites The Top Sites feature in Safari provides an attractive and interactive method for browsing and tracking your favorite Websites. Top Sites Order Safari 4 Top Sites can be placed in any order on the screen through drag and drop, and can be […]

Within the browser wars, one browser that hasn’t really gotten that much attention is Safari. This is a little strange, as most products from Apple do tend to get lots of attention. But for many people, Safari is simply the browser that comes on Macs. To a large degree, it’s the fault of the browser […]

Ever wonder what features will be found in the next generation of Web browsers? Well, usually there’s one easy way to find out: Just check out the latest version of Opera. Opera may not be the best known or most used Web browser out there, but, over the years, it has been one of the […]

Opera 10 Beta Continues Browsers Innovation Trend by Jim Rapoza Speed Dial Like many past Opera innovations, Opera’s Speed Dial—which makes it possible to view your favorite Websites when launching a new tab—has been heavily copied by competing browsers. Site Changes The sites shown in Opera’s Speed Dial can be easily changed, deleted or customized. […]

Achooo! Sorry, there are these bugs going around that are really bringing me down. I thought I had protected myself, but I was focused on this other thing and didn’t even know about the threat of these bugs, which it turns out are very common. Sick? No, I’m not sick (that sneeze was just allergies). […]

With the launch of Bing this week, a new search service arrived to take on Google. And, unlike other small challengers, since Bing is from Microsoft, it actually has the potential to stick around long enough to make some inroads on Google. But how is Bing as a search engine? Since it launched on Monday, […]