Internet Browsers compared to Movie celebrities

In our quest to ensure that PitStopTech readers get a wide variety of information pertaining to technology and education, we’re sharing with you today this very important visual that discusses web browsers. We know that we have loyal Apple vs. PC users out there, some of whom are attached at the hip to Firefox, Chrome, or some version of IE.  So rather than trying to convince you that my browser choice is better than your browser choice, I present to you without further ado, a look at who your favorite browser would be if it were a celebrity. This might just make you laugh

Browsers As Celebrity

• Firefox= Morgan Freeman
• Chrome = Christopher Nolan
• IE6 = Betty White
• IE7 = Matthew McConaughey
• IE8= The Shatner
• Safari = Samuel L. Jackson
• Flock = Michael Cera
• Netscape = Walter Matthau
• Opera = J-Lo
• IceWeasel = Kristen Schaal
• Requires No Browser = Keanu Reeves

VIA EDUDEMIC

New Chrome for Android has easy translation and full screen view

The Chrome browser for Android received a rather nice update over the wee hours last night, and now it’s finally up to par with the beta version. If you’re one to wait for the stable channel and not toy with beta apps, the official Chrome for Android upgrade brought many features we’ve been enjoying for some time. Thanks to Google working hard and fast, today we have some awesome new features to make browsing on our Android tablets and smartphones even better. The most important feature is probably fullscreen browsing mode. While you scroll down the action bar disappears, and a quick flip up and it will return for instant navigation or entering a new address.This was added way back in May to the beta, but now it’s available to everyone. More importantly, the fullscreen experience is now available on tablets, which previously wasn’t being offered. Google’s also added in what they’re calling the Translation bar. When a page is in another language you can instantly hit the bar for a translation, then again to go back to the standard language. There’s also addition support for right-to-left languages, for those backwards reading web layouts in Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew. We’re also hearing the bandwidth saving data compression feature found in the latest beta is included in this update, but the Play Store doesn’t make mention of it. Get the latest Chrome browser for Android and enjoy. It’s free.  It’s not unlike the Turbo feature found in the Finnish Opera browser.

Do-Not-Track by Firefox advances

The Mozilla is advancing plans to have the Firefox browser block by default many types of tracing used by numerous advertisers despite strong opposition. Mozilla is currently working on changing the dynamics so that the trackers behave better. 21% of the computers in the world use the Mozilla Firefox browser. According to reports, this feature will hit the web in few months from now. The blocking technology is based on Apple's Safari which blocks all third party cookies. Advertisers use these cookies to track users across multiple websites. This cookie blocking is now being adapted by many browsers. It is also being said that this feature will also be available on your Android device. DNT wont stop advts however it may change the types of ads you see. Ads targeted to your interests will only be displaced.