In recent years, there have been no major changes in how we use our webcam in a web browser, but now this situation has changed with the release of Chrome Beta 21 by adding native support for webcam and microphone. Web apps can now access your camera and microphone right within the Chrome, without a plug-in.
Google has released the first stable version of its web browser Chrome for Android smartphone and tablets with several performance fixes. Chrome for Android brings some of the best features of desktop Chrome, including its speed and simplicity, search and navigate from the same box, incognito mode, tabbed interface and fast with accelerated page loading.
New Tab page is one of the several new features of Firefox 13. By default, New Tab page displays 9 thumbnails of your most recently and frequently visited web pages when you open a new tab. However, New Tab page misses some customization options. For example, there is no option for changing the number of tiles. Here is how it is.
Mozilla is working on a fresh, sleeker UI (user interface) for its open source browser Firefox. Named Australis, this new theme gives a cleaner and fresher user interface for the browser Firefox. One of the nightly builds for the Windows operating system already has this new theme and you can try it by downloading from here.
Recently Google has announced the release of Metro version of Chrome browser that will run in both the Metro and desktop environments on Windows 8. If you have installed the latest Chrome Dev release on Windows 8, you will notice that the browser is now opening in Metro mode (if you set it as your default browser and run from Metro).
The latest nightly build of Firefox 16 supports desktop web apps from Mozilla Market Place. If you aren’t familiar with Mozilla market place, it is a browser accessible apps store, which features hundreds of apps and games built using new web development technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Mozilla’s own proposed web APIs.