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Opera 11.50 Beta featuring enhanced password security
As you may already know, Firefox recently announced that they would introduce competitive release schedules to their popular browser, Mozilla. This was immediately followed by the release of Firefox 4 which claims to feature up to 6 times the performance of the previous v3.6.
After seeing Google Chrome and Firefox push for faster releases on their respective browsers, Opera has taken a stance – To release at the same speed (gotcha!). Nevertheless, they have managed to reach the 11.5 beta of the next major release which will probably bring joy to users who share bookmarks across computers with Opera Link. Along with the introduction of added support for HTML5 such as the dataset attribute, sessions history and navigation, the classList attribute, Opera is pushing for enhanced password security.
What this means is now Opera will allow Opera Link users to also synchronize passwords across computers as they are able to ensure such information will not be stolen.
This is achieved by using a randomly generated encryption key that is sent along with your password to Opera’s authentication service, where it is then retrieved onto your other computers and accessed by typing in your Opera Link password. When you input your password, it will check it against the encryption key created earlier, and if they match, you are provided access. This means not only are you protected by your Opera Link password, you are protected a second time by the encryption key which is matched against your password.
Aside from this amazing feature, they have also introduced the possibility of using extensions in your Speed Dial (yes, we know, more Opera jargon), allowing you to view weather, email, news as they update dynamically.
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Firefox 4 just released!
So…about two hours ago, Mozilla announced the released of their newest major update to their popular web browser, Firefox.
What’s so special about this update?
Minor modifications
Where are the other features?!
Simply put, we decided all the other new “features” Mozilla brought up in their Firefox 4 release were simply too insignificant to occupy the precious time of our readers.
So we have spared you from having to read a huge wall of text then decide you’ve just wasted your time. If you still wish to see all the other minor “features” implemented in the new update, feel free to see them on the official Firefox website.
I really could care less about the minor modifications…tell me about the speed increase!
As we are well aware, one of the most important things when browsing the internet for most of us is the speed in which the page is displayed. The team at Technewsgalore is no different. So we’ll happily give you some significant numbers from the benchmarks comparing Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 4.
Kraken – Difference: Almost 3.55x faster! (Lower value means faster performance)
Firefox 3.6 - 14,293 milliseconds (ms)
Firefox 4 - 5,072 ms
Sunspider – Difference: 3.2x faster! (Lower value means faster performance)
Firefox 3.6 - 620 ms
Firefox 4 - 206 ms
V8 – Difference: 7.08x better! (Greater value, greater performance)
Firefox 3.6 – 733 ms
Firefox 4 - 5189 ms
Yes those numbers are quite impressive. However, numbers mean nothing if you can not experience it yourself. So go ahead, try out Firefox 4 and tell us how you like it!
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Verifying Technorati claim token
This is a simple guide those of you who signed up to Technorati but have no idea how to confirm the claim token required for you to submit your site.
Follow the below steps:
- Sign in to Technorati
Click on the submission of your site
Find the claim token on the next page
Create a new post on your blog with the token. Example: VVRJ8T4Z97PY
Click “Return to profile”
Click “Check claim”
Now the Technorati spiders should have already crawled your blog, simply wait until your submission is reviewed by the Technorati staff!
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