Chromium gained an important patch over the weekend, with the introduction of Greasemonkey support. The patch came from none other than Aaron Boodman, creator of the original Firefox add-on, and also a Google employee.

Mark Finkle has announced the first alpha release of Mozilla's mobile web browser, Fennec. While there was some discussion in recent days of progress on a Windows Mobile version, this release runs on the Nokia N800 and N810 only.

Amongst the reactions to Google's release of Chrome was the developer's howl of pain at the thought of another major browser on which to do compatibility testing. Google's generally asserts that Safari compatibility results should be the same as Chrome's, but Nathan Hammond stumbled across a divergence that he finds troubling and which Google shows no inclination to fix. Says Nathan: