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NicKnayme · NicKnayme

The next major version of Flash Player, which is currently in beta stage, will leverage APIs already supported in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer to allow clearing Flash Local Shared Objects (LSOs) directly from inside the browsers. Article HERE! -- Edited by NicKnayme on Friday 6th of May...

NicKnayme · NicKnayme

Stats HERE!

barney · barney

Mozilla has set an aggressive schedule for the next version of Firefox, slating the release of Firefox 5 for June 21. If it meets that schedule, Mozilla could crank out Firefox 6 just two months later. Mozilla has shifted to a faster-paced development cycle where it adds new features as it goes to a ser...

barney · barney

Google on Tuesday said it will add malware download warnings to its Chrome browser. The move has Google following the lead of rival Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer 9 also alerts users about questionable software downloads. Google will use its Safe Browsing service to flag sketchy downloads, t...

Vindicated · Vindicated

[url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383007,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]Mozilla

barney · barney

Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) again lost ground to Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome last month, even as the company launched its newest browser, Web metrics data showed today. But Microsoft stands behind its decision to limit IE9 to users running Windows Vista and Windows 7. "It was a...

Vindicated · Vindicated

This was copied from Toshiba forum -- probably applies to TMF also: Forums software compatibility with Internet Explorer 9 coming [ Edited ] OptionsSubscribe to RSS FeedHighlightPrintReport Inappropriate Content - last edit...

barney · barney

It didn't take long for Mozilla's Firefox 4 to gain immense popularity. As of this writing, millions of people have downloaded the new browser and by the look of things, its appeal to Web users has yet to slow down. By all measures, Firefox 4 seems to be on top of its game, and it's ready to take on its many c...

NicKnayme · NicKnayme

Numbers HERE! (From their numbers, it looks like FF3 is the winner? They must mean in a 24 hour period)

barney · barney

After needing to release a second Release Candidate just over a week ago, Mozilla have finally signed off on version 4.0 and made it available to the public ahead of the official launch date of March 22. The Firefox website has yet to be updated, but we expect this will happen within the next 24 hours. Th...

barney · barney

Internet Explorer 9 has been under development for the past year, going through a number of platform previews, two betas. After a year-long wait, Microsoft finally hit the latest Release Candidate milestone with Internet Explorer 9. The latest HTML5-compliant browser from Microsoft brings a nu...

NicKnayme · NicKnayme

When I add a theme (or plug-in) and I click "restart Firefox" Win7 closes it and it never re-opens. No error or message appears. If I open it...it says it needs to re-start FF. (to infinity) If I re-start Windows it will be installed. (I thought posting here would be faster than FF Forums) Tha...

barney · barney

Microsoft is planning to announce and celebrate the release of Internet Explorer 9 on March 14, WinRumors has learned. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 team is planning to host a party during the South by southwest (SXSW) music and film festival in Austin, Texas. The party will be held on March 14 and...

barney · barney

Google has released a new version of its Chrome webbrowser, removing support for H.264 and adding in a 66% faster JavaScript engine. This version 10 release comes only seven weeks after version nine, maybe we will see Chrome 24 by 2012. The major change is in the Chrome Options screen which has been re...

barney · barney

Microsoft has an aggressive initiative to kill Internet Explorer 6, the 10-year-old browser version that has outlived its usefulness. The Twitter message above links to a special web site aimed at helping businesses upgrade to newer versions of Internet Explorer. A big part of that story is secur...

Vindicated · Vindicated

Living Safely in the ‘Cloud’ So if you're not a computer security expert -- and you don’t have a squad of security elves waiting readily at your disposal -- how do you protect yourself from identity theft an...

Vindicated · Vindicated

Top 7 New Features in Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate

barney · barney

Google has just released Chrome 10 beta (10.0.648.82 for all you perfectionists) and it brings with it a whole slew of new things to play with. First off, there’s a significant JavaScript performance boost thanks to the updated V8 engine. According to Google, this version of the V8 engine offers a 66...

barney · barney

This morning, Microsoft officially made the long-awaited Release Candidate build of Internet Explorer 9 available to the general public. As usual, my inbox is overflowing with questions. Here are the answers. How is the Release Candidate different from the beta? I’ve published a write-up that c...

barney · barney

After tens of millions of downloads of last year's beta, Microsoft has shipped the release candidate of Internet Explorer 9. The latest iteration of Microsoft's new browser boasts a few new features, a refined user interface, better performance, and improved standards compliance. Perhaps as a t...

barney · barney

The searchengine wars certainly just took an interesting turn. According to Search Engine Land, Google just completed a sting operation of sorts, proving that Bing is copying search results. The Bing Toolbar is used to watch what users search for on Google, the sites that the users end up clicking o...

barney · barney

In the world of browser wars, speed is everything. All the top vendors love to show off how fast their browser is and why it is better than the competition. So, when a user comes up with a way to increase the cold boot time of a browser, it generally grabs the attention of many people. Taras Glek, from bugz...

barney · barney

Mozilla announced yesterday that it will block the Skype Toolbar add-on for Firefox and remotely disable it for existing users. Mozilla was forced to take this extraordinary measure after discovering that severe bugs in the add-on are crippling the browser's performance and stability. The Skyp...

barney · barney

David Sicore, Mozilla's Director of Platform Engineering, told developers via a mailing list (which you can read here) that the final version of Firefox 4 should be ready to ship by the end of February, but not before another beta and a release candidate come out first. Sicore mentioned that at the mo...

barney · barney

Microsoft today turned to a new defensive measure to help users ward off ongoing attacks exploiting a known bug in Internet Explorer (IE). As expected, the company also patched three vulnerabilities in Windows. "The 'shim' for IE is the news today," said Andrew Storms, director of secu...

barney · barney

After its fair share of delays, Firefox 4 looks set for a late-February release. Posting on the Mozilla Planning mailing list, the Director of Platform Engineering, Damon Sicore, thanked Firefox 4's "tired and stressed" developers, and urged them to hang on, to produce one last burst o...

Vindicated · Vindicated

[url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374743,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]Browser Wars...

barney · barney

With more and more applications moving into the cloud, the old republic of installed software is in danger of falling. A new online empire promises security, stability, and even portability, but at its head is an evil emperor, the web browser. This is how productivity dies, with thunderous back but...

barney · barney

Capable of blocking 99% of all socially-engineered malware, Internet Explorer 9 is the best browser to protect users against attacks for which there’s no patch, since there are no actual code vulnerabilities targeted. Attacks involving social engineering are designed to “exploit” users rathe...

barney · barney

Amidst bureaucratic wrangling and legal arguments in the upper echelons of the world’s legislative bodies, Microsoft has decided to take matters into its own hands when it comes to ‘do not track’ web browser functionality. In the first release candidate (RC) of IE9, Microsoft is rolling out two op...

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	Firefox and IE Already Support Clearing Flash Cookies (Preview) The next major version of Flash Player, which is currently in beta stage, will leverage APIs already supported in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer to allow clearing Flash Local Shared Objects (LSOs) directly from inside the browsers. Article HERE! -- Edited by NicKnayme on Friday 6th of May...	NicKnayme	1	583	May 6, 2011 by Vindicated
	Chrome Near 12%; IE and Firefox Decline (Preview) Stats HERE!	NicKnayme	1	378	May 2, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Mozilla shoots for June 21 release of Firefox 5 (Preview) Mozilla has set an aggressive schedule for the next version of Firefox, slating the release of Firefox 5 for June 21. If it meets that schedule, Mozilla could crank out Firefox 6 just two months later. Mozilla has shifted to a faster-paced development cycle where it adds new features as it goes to a ser...	barney	1	541	Apr 11, 2011 by Vindicated
	Chrome tips users to dangerous Windows downloads (Preview) Google on Tuesday said it will add malware download warnings to its Chrome browser. The move has Google following the lead of rival Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer 9 also alerts users about questionable software downloads. Google will use its Safe Browsing service to flag sketchy downloads, t...	barney	0	410	Apr 8, 2011 by barney
	Mozilla Goes on the Attack Against Debilitating Firefox Add-ons (Preview) [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383007,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]Mozilla	Vindicated	0	471	Apr 4, 2011 by Vindicated
	Microsoft stands by decision to ban IE9 from XP (Preview) Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) again lost ground to Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome last month, even as the company launched its newest browser, Web metrics data showed today. But Microsoft stands behind its decision to limit IE9 to users running Windows Vista and Windows 7. "It was a...	barney	5	408	Apr 4, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Forums software compatibility with Internet Explorer 9 (Preview) This was copied from Toshiba forum -- probably applies to TMF also: Forums software compatibility with Internet Explorer 9 coming [ Edited ] OptionsMark as NewBookmarkSubscribeSubscribe to RSS FeedHighlightPrintEmail to a FriendReport Inappropriate Content03-18-201110:53 AM - last edit...	Vindicated	3	532	Apr 3, 2011 by Vindicated
	Firefox 4 Is Better Than Microsoft Internet Explorer 9: 10 Reasons Why (Preview) It didn't take long for Mozilla's Firefox 4 to gain immense popularity. As of this writing, millions of people have downloaded the new browser and by the look of things, its appeal to Web users has yet to slow down. By all measures, Firefox 4 seems to be on top of its game, and it's ready to take on its many c...	barney	2	764	Mar 28, 2011 by Vindicated
	Firefox sets record for most single-day software downloads (Preview) Numbers HERE! (From their numbers, it looks like FF3 is the winner? They must mean in a 24 hour period)	NicKnayme	0	434	Mar 28, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Mozilla launches Firefox 4 (Preview) After needing to release a second Release Candidate just over a week ago, Mozilla have finally signed off on version 4.0 and made it available to the public ahead of the official launch date of March 22. The Firefox website has yet to be updated, but we expect this will happen within the next 24 hours. Th...	barney	8	781	Mar 25, 2011 by barney
	Internet Explorer 9 RTM now available (Preview) Internet Explorer 9 has been under development for the past year, going through a number of platform previews, two betas. After a year-long wait, Microsoft finally hit the latest Release Candidate milestone with Internet Explorer 9. The latest HTML5-compliant browser from Microsoft brings a nu...	barney	1	618	Mar 15, 2011 by Vindicated
	Help With Firefox Add-Ons With Win7 (Preview) When I add a theme (or plug-in) and I click "restart Firefox" Win7 closes it and it never re-opens. No error or message appears. If I open it...it says it needs to re-start FF. (to infinity) If I re-start Windows it will be installed. (I thought posting here would be faster than FF Forums) Tha...	NicKnayme	3	403	Mar 13, 2011 by barney
	Internet Explorer 9 to launch on March 14 (Preview) Microsoft is planning to announce and celebrate the release of Internet Explorer 9 on March 14, WinRumors has learned. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 team is planning to host a party during the South by southwest (SXSW) music and film festival in Austin, Texas. The party will be held on March 14 and...	barney	3	472	Mar 9, 2011 by Vindicated
	Google releases Chrome 10 (Preview) Google has released a new version of its Chrome webbrowser, removing support for H.264 and adding in a 66% faster JavaScript engine. This version 10 release comes only seven weeks after version nine, maybe we will see Chrome 24 by 2012. The major change is in the Chrome Options screen which has been re...	barney	0	497	Mar 9, 2011 by barney
	For security reasons alone, you should ditch IE6 (Preview) Microsoft has an aggressive initiative to kill Internet Explorer 6, the 10-year-old browser version that has outlived its usefulness. The Twitter message above links to a special web site aimed at helping businesses upgrade to newer versions of Internet Explorer. A big part of that story is secur...	barney	2	530	Mar 7, 2011 by Vindicated
	Living Safely in the ‘Cloud’ (Preview) Living Safely in the ‘Cloud’ So if you're not a computer security expert -- and you don’t have a squad of security elves waiting readily at your disposal -- how do you protect yourself from identity theft an...	Vindicated	0	449	Mar 3, 2011 by Vindicated
	Top 7 New Features in Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (Preview) Top 7 New Features in Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate	Vindicated	0	430	Feb 28, 2011 by Vindicated
	Google Chrome 10 beta - Faster JavaScript, GPU acceleration, and more! (Preview) Google has just released Chrome 10 beta (10.0.648.82 for all you perfectionists) and it brings with it a whole slew of new things to play with. First off, there’s a significant JavaScript performance boost thanks to the updated V8 engine. According to Google, this version of the V8 engine offers a 66...	barney	0	425	Feb 20, 2011 by barney
	IE9 FAQ: how to install, uninstall, and tweak the IE9 RC (Preview) This morning, Microsoft officially made the long-awaited Release Candidate build of Internet Explorer 9 available to the general public. As usual, my inbox is overflowing with questions. Here are the answers. How is the Release Candidate different from the beta? I’ve published a write-up that c...	barney	4	560	Feb 15, 2011 by Vindicated
	Hands-on: Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate with Download Links! (Preview) After tens of millions of downloads of last year's beta, Microsoft has shipped the release candidate of Internet Explorer 9. The latest iteration of Microsoft's new browser boasts a few new features, a refined user interface, better performance, and improved standards compliance. Perhaps as a t...	barney	0	677	Feb 13, 2011 by barney
	Microsoft stealing Google search results to improve Bing (Preview) The searchengine wars certainly just took an interesting turn. According to Search Engine Land, Google just completed a sting operation of sorts, proving that Bing is copying search results. The Bing Toolbar is used to watch what users search for on Google, the sites that the users end up clicking o...	barney	1	509	Feb 2, 2011 by Vindicated
	20-line patch to Firefox 4 that makes startup on Windows up to 2x as fast (Preview) In the world of browser wars, speed is everything. All the top vendors love to show off how fast their browser is and why it is better than the competition. So, when a user comes up with a way to increase the cold boot time of a browser, it generally grabs the attention of many people. Taras Glek, from bugz...	barney	0	499	Jan 23, 2011 by barney
	Mozilla blocks Skype add-on: caused 33k Firefox crashes in a week (Preview) Mozilla announced yesterday that it will block the Skype Toolbar add-on for Firefox and remotely disable it for existing users. Mozilla was forced to take this extraordinary measure after discovering that severe bugs in the add-on are crippling the browser's performance and stability. The Skyp...	barney	1	423	Jan 22, 2011 by Vindicated
	Firefox 4 final release targeted for next month (Preview) David Sicore, Mozilla's Director of Platform Engineering, told developers via a mailing list (which you can read here) that the final version of Firefox 4 should be ready to ship by the end of February, but not before another beta and a release candidate come out first. Sicore mentioned that at the mo...	barney	0	424	Jan 15, 2011 by barney
	Microsoft turns to creative tactic to block IE attacks (Preview) Microsoft today turned to a new defensive measure to help users ward off ongoing attacks exploiting a known bug in Internet Explorer (IE). As expected, the company also patched three vulnerabilities in Windows. "The 'shim' for IE is the news today," said Andrew Storms, director of secu...	barney	0	332	Jan 12, 2011 by barney
	Firefox 4 tentatively scheduled for a February release (Preview) After its fair share of delays, Firefox 4 looks set for a late-February release. Posting on the Mozilla Planning mailing list, the Director of Platform Engineering, Damon Sicore, thanked Firefox 4's "tired and stressed" developers, and urged them to hang on, to produce one last burst o...	barney	0	444	Jan 12, 2011 by barney
	Browser Wars III (Preview) [url=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2374743,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ziffdavis%2Fpcmag%2Fbreakingnews+%28PCMag.com+Breaking+News%29&utm_content=My+MSN]Browser Wars...	Vindicated	1	517	Jan 7, 2011 by NicKnayme
	Why the Browser’s Not Safe For (Real) Work (Preview) With more and more applications moving into the cloud, the old republic of installed software is in danger of falling. A new online empire promises security, stability, and even portability, but at its head is an evil emperor, the web browser. This is how productivity dies, with thunderous back but...	barney	0	555	Dec 19, 2010 by barney
	IE9 Blocks 99% of Socially-Engineering Malware (Preview) Capable of blocking 99% of all socially-engineered malware, Internet Explorer 9 is the best browser to protect users against attacks for which there’s no patch, since there are no actual code vulnerabilities targeted. Attacks involving social engineering are designed to “exploit” users rathe...	barney	3	619	Dec 16, 2010 by Vindicated
	Microsoft adds "Do Not Track" to IE9 RC (Preview) Amidst bureaucratic wrangling and legal arguments in the upper echelons of the world’s legislative bodies, Microsoft has decided to take matters into its own hands when it comes to ‘do not track’ web browser functionality. In the first release candidate (RC) of IE9, Microsoft is rolling out two op...	barney	1	692	Dec 9, 2010 by Vindicated
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