It seems that press is picking up a story about Google's Chrome users count. What they fail to realize is the fact that browser had 30 million active users more than 4 months ago.

"It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly."
Posted on 7/07/2009.

So, no, Chrome does not have 30 million users, it has over 40 million of them.

Market share:
July, 2009 – 2.59% – 30 million users reported
October, 2009 – 3.58% – ~38% increase = 41 million + users.

The latest beta release of Google Chrome 4 has received a bookmark sync feature. Now you will be able to synchronize bookmarks across multiple computers.

In addition, this release performs 30% faster than it's predecessor (Google Chrome 3) in Mozilla's Dromeao DOM Core Tests.

Download Google Chrome 4 Beta.

Here's what I have received, after clicking on a link from RSS feed.

As you can see, some countries are being blocked from accessing certain pages OR could be just a temporary issue/bug.

EDIT: Upon closer investigation, it appears that instead of regular link, it lead to a Chinese Opera site, which caused this issue.

Today, Opera Software has revealed a new Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Symbian platform. One of the very first changes you'll notice is a new home screen, which is almost identical to recently released Opera Mini 5.

In addition, it now also includes updated interface and visual tabs.

Opera also said, that this version downloads pages 50% faster than previous version for Symbian.

Visit Opera Mobile 10 Page.

• Security fixes, JavaScript update bog down Internet Explorer 8
• Light the World with Firefox
• 3+ Awesome Ways to Make Sense of FireFox Tabs
• Beware the Fake Google Chrome OS Download
• Google sued for Courgette updates for Chrome web browser
• Opera Unite: Application of the Week
• Browser speed comparison – HTC HD2 vs Acer neoTouch vs iPhone 3GS
• Camino 2 Release Candidate Available for Download
• Flock Releases Spanish Language Web Browser

Thanks to Nox for links.

Here's how you can enable tab preview in Firefox 3.6:

Type the following line into your address bar:
about:config

Look for:
browser.allTabs.previews
browser.ctrlTab.previews

Set both to true.

Use Ctrl + Tab to switch between tabs or Ctrl + Shift + Tab to get a list of opened ones.

Mozilla has released a very first beta of Firefox 3.6 series web browser.

As we mentioned some time earlier, the following version now includes:

Personas support (aka light themes)
WOFF font format support
New CSS, DOM and HTML5 technologies support
Add-ons update notifications
Tabs preview
Improved JavaScript and overall performance
And few other changes

Download Firefox 3.6 Beta 1.

In the Opera forums post, one of the Opera's developers has mentioned that they are implementing Windows 7 features “that makes sense” for the upcoming browser version.

Although not many details were revealed, he said: “Multi-touch is certainly one of those things we will evaluate as part of this process.”.

In the meantime, we can only hope that some of those implementations will be already available in Opera 10.10 Final release.

Thanks to Daniel Hendrycks for news tip.

Guys from SecureThoughts.com decided to do a research on Opera Unite security and share some insights.

1. Enumerating Service Owner Usernames
Use: site:operaunite.com search query in search engine to build a list.

2. Enumerating Computer names for a particular Service Owner
"If you visit the service homepage with any non-existent computer name, then Opera Unite happily discloses all computer names used by that person."

3. Enumerating Service Owner Server IP address and Port number
As they say, Opera Unite does not mask your IP or port number. In fact, everyone can see it.
View > Source

4. Hijacking Insecure Communication in Service Pages
One of the main issues found here was lack of https support: "These users use sensitive credentials to login to your services and need the same kind of security as the service owner. What is more shocking is that the user management system at my.opera.com does not support https."

5. Hosting Phishing Pages and other Malware on Trusted Operaunite.com
An attacker can trick users by uploading phishing site to their unite page. As you can see from the screenshot, it looks like content is coming from operaunite.com, resulting some users to fall for this trick.

They have found many more issues with Opera Unite, you may read about it here.

Thanks to F for send this.

A new version of all-in-one Internet application suite SeaMonkey has been released.

What exactly SeaMonkey is?
It's a web browser (Firefox platform), Mail and Newsgroups client (Thunderbird platform), HTML Editor, ChatZilla IRC chat application, DOM inspector and a little bit more.

SeaMonkey 2.0 changes:
The following release includes various new features, such as: new add-on manager, session restore, tabbed mail, reworked download manager and lots of other improvements.

Download SeaMonkey 2.0.

Thanks to Nox for news tip.