Mozilla has released the first beta of its Firefox 4 web browser, enhancing the user interface and adding an array of new features.
Firefox 4 Beta, developed on the Gecko 2.0 web platform, offers a revamped add-on manager and comes with a built-in crash support tool which will prevent the web browser from crashing even if vital plug-ins like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight and Apple Quicktime freeze.
The browser, which also comes with HTML 5 capabilities, WebGL support for 3D rendering and offers support for …

Users of Google Chrome on Linux, Mac and Windows machines were automatically upgraded Thursday to a new browser version that addresses several security bugs and features a fully integrated Flash multimedia player for the first time. Google Vice President of Engineering Linus Upson believes browser users will benefit in several different ways from Chrome’s integration of Adobe Systems’ Flash technology for the web.
“When users download Chrome, they will also receive the latest version of Adobe Flash Player as well as automatically receive updates related to Flash Player using Google Chrome’s auto-update mechanism,” …

Google has patched 11 security holes in Chrome as Apple released Safari 5, the latest version of its WebKit rival.
The patch for Chrome 5.0.375.70 on Linux, Mac and Windows is the first fix for Google’s browser since the stable versions of the Mac and Linux editions were announced.
The update followed Monday’s Safari 5 from Apple that patched a record 48 vulnerabilities, most of them on WebKit – also used in Chrome. It’s the first major update to Apple’s browser in a year.
You can find out more information from the Google …

The Safari web browser is the main web browser for the Apple Mac operating systems and the iPhone/iPad OS. Apple is set to announce the next version of Safari at the World Wide Developer Conference which starts today, June 7th 2010.
The next version of the browser is rumoured to have better support for HTML 5 and an increase in JavaScript speed of nearly 25 per cent compared to previous releases. Also anticipated are support for Microsoft’s Bing search engine, DNS pre-fetching, a new geolocation feature called and a Safari Reader.
Apple …

Google has added the newly open-sourced VP8 video codec to the latest developer-channel build of its Chrome browser. The codec will be used with the new HTML5 standard to embed videos directly in to the browser, without such need for a flash plug-in.
Google acquired the VP8 codec as part of its $124.6 million purchase of video compression outfit On2 Technologies this year in spring. You can get the latest developer snapshot of Google Chrome and read more about the codec integration on the Google Chrome dev channel: located here