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Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Opera have also released significant upgrades to their browsers in the past few months.

Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate was made available on Tuesday evening through the automatic update mechanism in the most recent Firefox 3.5 beta release. Those wishing to download it can do so by installing Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 and updating the software from the Help menu. Mozilla is likely to post a direct link in the next day or two.Barring the discovery of any show stopping bugs, Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate will become the official Firefox 3.5 release, which is scheduled to be made available at the end of this month.

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Opera today unveiled Opera Unite, a new technology that shakes up the old client-server computing model of the Web. Opera Unite turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for third-party servers.

Opera Unite makes serving data as simple and easy as browsing the Web. For consumers, Opera Unite services give greater control of private data and make it easy to share data with any device equipped with a modern Web browser.

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Apple® today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 is the world’s fastest, most innovative browser and is built on the world’s most advanced browser technologies including the new Nitro JavaScript engine that executes JavaScript nearly eight times faster than IE 8 and more than four times faster than Firefox 3. Safari quickly loads HTML web pages more than three times faster than IE 8 and three times faster than Firefox 3.*

“Safari 4 is an incredible success on Mac and Windows with more than 11 million downloads in the first three days,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Safari users love the incredible speed and innovative features like Top Sites, Full History Search and Cover Flow.”

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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union regulators said Friday that Microsoft Corp. was offering less choice, not more, by vowing to sell the next version of Windows without any Web browsers at all.

Microsoft said Thursday that it would remove its Internet Explorer browser — and not include any alternatives — in the Windows 7 software it will sell from Oct. 22 in Europe to soothe EU antitrust concerns.

The company is trying to avoid new EU fines on top of a previous euro1.7 billion after being earlier charged with unfairly using its operating system monopoly to squeeze into other software markets.

But the European Commission said it preferred to see consumers offered a choice of browser ”not that Windows would be supplied without a browser at all.”

”Rather than more choice, Microsoft seems to have chosen to provide less,” it said.

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