Notepad++ 6.3.2 is now available for download.This is a bug fix release.What’s new in this version?
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
Bug fixes:
Fix a regression (performance issue).
Recognize wscript and Rakefile respectively as python and ruby file.
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Mozilla has announced a collaboration with Samsung to build a new browser engine Servo for ARM devices and Android. Servo is based on Mozilla’s Rust programming language.
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Google announced that it is forking the WebKit rendering engine and moving on from WebKit in future versions
of Chrome.The forked new rendering engine is Blink.
From blink developer faq
“There are two main reasons why we’re making this change.
The main reason is that Chromium uses a different multi-process architecture than other WebKit-based browsers. So, over the years, supporting multiple architectures has led to increasing complexity for both the WebKit and Chromium communities, slowing down the collective pace of innovation.
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Yahoo announced a new partnership with Dropbox that allows Yahoo Mail customers to use Dropbox within webmail.
New features:
Set up a new Dropbox account within yahoo mail
Save one or more files to Dropbox in yahoomail
create and name a new Dropbox folder in yahoomail
Share from Dropbox
send large file (>25MB) through Dropbox
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Mozilla firefox 20 stable is now available for download.
What’s new in this firefox 20?
Per-window Private Browsing. Learn more.
New download experience. Learn more.
Ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging
Continued performance improvements around common browser tasks (page loads, downloads, shutdown, etc.)
Continued implementation of draft ECMAScript 6 – clear and Math.imul
New JavaScript Profiler tool
getUserMedia implemented for web access to the user’s camera and microphone (with user permission)
canvas now supports blend modes
Various audio and video improvements
Fixes:
Details button on Crash Reporter
Unity plugin doesn’t display in HiDPI mode
Google is celebrating Maria Sibylla Merian’s 366th birthday with a new google doodle on its homepage.
Maria Sibylla Merian (2 April 1647 – 13 January 1717) was a Swiss naturalist and scientific illustrator who studied plants and insects and painted them in great detail. Her careful observations and documentation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly makes her a significant, albeit not well-known, contributor to entomology.Maria Sibylla Merian was born on 2 April 1647 in Frankfurt, then a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire, into the family of the Swiss engraver and publisher Matthäus Merian the Elder.
Desktop Browser Market Share:
According to Net Applications,in March Total market share of
microsoft internet explore is 55.83%,
firefox 20.21%,
chrome 16.45%
Safari 5.31% and
opera 1.74%.
Mobile/Tablet Browser Market Share:
According to Net Applications,in March Total market share of
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Desktop Operating System Market Share:
According to Net Applications, in March the total market share of
microsoft windows is 91.89%,
mac 6.94%,
linux 1.17%.
Mobile/Tablet Operating System Market Share in March:
The total market share of
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Maxthon Cloud Browser 4.0.5.2000 is now available download.What’s new in this release?
New Maxthon Dock – It supporting pin the independent SideBar to your desktop for quick visiting favorite sites and extensions.
Improved the page load speed
Optimized the memory usage
Improved the user experience
Improved the interaction and UI of Maxthon Download Manager
Fixes:
Crash problem if uploaded images to Google+
Some other crash problems
No response of drag&drop during downloading files
The upload status problem in Maxthon Downloader
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Dropbox has released a new small feature on its web-based version that allows you check all the shared links.You can also turn the entire thing off from the account settings page, if you prefer not to revisit the past.