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Chrome 8 unleashed
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Google has really been pushing versions of its Chrome browser out the window at an alarmingly fast pace. Since release (just two years ago), Google is now pushing its eighth version of Chrome into user's eagerly waiting arms. According to Download Squad, Google has moved Chrome 8 (verison 8.0.552....
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IE's share slides again as IE6 starts to fade away
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser again lost usage share last month to rivals Google and Apple, posting its largest decline since March, a Web analytics firm said Wednesday. Usage share of Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), the nine-year-old browser even Microsoft wants to kill, fell by 1.3 percent...
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Apple patches critical 'drive-by' Safari bugs
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Apple today patched 27 vulnerabilities in Safari for Mac OS X and Windows, 85% of them critical bugs that could be exploited to hijack Macs or PCs. Of the 27 flaws fixed in Safari 5.0.3 for Mac and Windows, four were patched by Apple two months ago in its iOS mobile operating system, and at least three had...
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New Opera 11 alpha snapshot. Big changes!
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As preparations to the upcoming beta of Opera 11 we are exclusively giving you two new features and several mail enhancements today. The address field in the browser is an extremely important feature. It's the key to how you navigate, search and to keep you safe on the web. For Opera 11, we want to bring...
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RockMelt: A social networking spin on Google Chrome
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Would you like to do your Web browsing while keeping a constant eye on what your Facebook friends are doing? If so, then RockMelt is for you. RockMelt is actually a combined Facebook front end and Web browser. It is built on the foundation of Google's open-source Chromium Web browser, which is also the...
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Speed-Up Firefox By Moving Your Cache To Ram
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Danger to IE users climbs as hacker kit adds exploit
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An exploit of an unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability has been added to a popular crimeware kit, a move that will probably push Microsoft to fix the flaw with an emergency update, a security researcher said Sunday. Meanwhile, a prominent vulnerability expert has sided with Microsoft, which...
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Top 10 Must-Have Browser Extensions
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Your browser of choice may have changed a lot in the past year, but luckily the best extensions for making your browser better have kept up with all the most popular browsers. Here are our cross-platform, must-have favorites. Last time we looked at our favorite browser extensions, we only looked at F...
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Firefox 4 Release Candidates Pushed into 2011
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Internet Explorer market share dips below 50%
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According to StatCounter (via NetworkWorld), Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser had dipped below the 50% mark for worldwide market share. These September stats show a decline of 1.43% since last month, and a nearly 10% drop since last year. This contrasts Net Applications estimates that...
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A Strange Conundrum
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I use forums in "Google Groups" (I don't use a newsreader). For the past 2 days I haven't been able to post. It states the post was successful...but nothing. I tried Firefox and IE8...and from a computer at work! Cleared cookies. I can only hope that Google is able to fix this. Ever happen t...
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8 essential privacy extensions for Firefox
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They say privacy doesn't exist on the Web -- but that doesn't mean you can't try to safeguard your personal information. Our computers are loaded with details about our personal and business lives, and it's definitely not acceptable to reveal them haphazardly. With hackers becoming ever more soph...
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Microsoft reverses course: IE9 won't require Windows 7 SP1
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Yesterday we reported that Internet Explorer 9 on Windows 7 would have Service Pack 1, due in the first half of next year, as a prerequisite—a surprising move, given that companies are often cautious about rolling out new service packs. Microsoft has now changed its public position: Service Pack 1 w...
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Microsoft's IE9 off limits to most Windows PCs
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Microsoft may have a tough time building significant market share for its new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser because eligible users are in the minority. Several analysts agreed that Microsoft has its work cut out for it, at least in the short term, because IE9 won't run on Windows XP, the aged-but...
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Mozilla halts Firefox security updates
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Mozilla has stopped providing security updates to Firefox users as it investigates a bug that caused computers to crash last week. Computerworld blogger Michael Horowitz first reported on the problem last Sunday after he tried to update older editions of Firefox on several different machines. W...
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Microsoft, Intel tout faster IE9 graphics
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Recent Microsoft and Intel primers on Internet Explorer 9's accelerated graphics point to snappier Web browsing. Microsoft will launch the beta of the upcoming Internet Explorer browser on Wednesday at an event in San Francisco as competition from Chrome, Firefox, and Safari has spurred Redmon...
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Microsoft investigates years-old IE bug
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Microsoft last Friday said it was looking into a long-known vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that could be used to access users' data and Web-based accounts. The bug can allow hackers to hijack Web mail accounts, steal data and send illicit tweets, said Google security engineer Chris Evans...
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Firefox 4.0 Starts Losing Features, Account Manager First to Go
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Mozilla has started slimming down the next major iteration of Firefox in order to make the release deadline set for Octobers or November 2010. The browser vendor did indicate last week that it was considering dropping some of the features proposed for Firefox 4.0 in order to wrap up and release the su...
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IE9 Will Be Faster and Safer than Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
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Internet Explorer 9 has yet to reach the Beta development stage, but Microsoft is already touting the next generation of IE as superior to its rivals. The Redmond company has obviously thrown down the gauntlet, and managed to take swings at all rivals during the recent Worldwide Partner Conference...
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The 20 Must-Have Firefox Add-ons
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Just how popular are add-ons to Mozilla Firefox’s Web browser? A usage survey taken by Mozilla as of one year ago revealed that one-third of all Firefox users—at least—use add-ons in some capacity. That’s a pretty big deal, but not quite as eye-opening a number as the raw statistics from Mozilla’s of...
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Why Firefox 4 is now the browser to beat
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The latest Firefox beta is a very impressive piece of work, in large part because of its new Panorama feature. It's clearly become the top browser of all. Here's why Chrome, Internet Explorer, and all the rest have a lot of catching up to do. Panorama, just released in the latest beta of Firefox 4, is on...
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9, Dissected
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ZDNet’s Mary-Jo Foley was lucky enough to see a Russian Microsoft IE9 page when it was apparently up for testing purposes. She grabbed a screenshot, revealing for the first time the new face of IE9, just before Microsoft took down the site again and replaced it with the preview information. Google’s...
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IE Care, Internet Explorer Repair And Cleaning Tool
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IE Care is an easy to use tool for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. It offers repairing and cleaning functionality, and a so called IE security shield as an additional feature, but more about that later. The program displays three tabs in the main interface on startup that lead to Repair, Cleaning And...
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15 Things You Shouldn't Be Paying For
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FCC: Broadband Users Are Getting Half of What They Expect
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Firefox 4 Beta 3 introduces Windows 7 touch support
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Mozilla has released the latest beta for Firefox 4, making this is the 3rd beta in the Firefox 4 development cycle. Beta 3 is available in more than 30 languages, 10 more than the last update. The beta also enables Windows 7 multi-touch support, which allows users the ability to interact with the brows...
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Internet Explorer 9 Beta Launches on September 15
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Microsoft will be launching the completely revamped Internet Explorer 9 at an event in San Francisco on September 15, but will it be enough to turn the tide in the war for web browser supremacy? The September event will mark the first time the world will have the chance to play with the beta for the entir...
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Microsoft’s IE turns 15
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Software giant Microsoft’s internet explorer turned 15 years on Monday. The company recently said it would launch the internet explorer 9 public beta version on September 15, 2010. Microsoft would launch the new version at a special event in San Francisco and confirmed the browser would only func...
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Internet Explorer 8 Continues to Lead All Web Browsers
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August 02, 2010 Internet Explorer 8 Continues to Lead All Web Browsers
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Firefox Home Is Now in the App Store
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We’ve just learned that Firefox Home [iTunes link] has been accepted to Apple’s App Store. This is Mozilla’s first submission to the App Store; the app was submitted 15 days ago. Fennec is Mozilla’s official mobile browser; it’s still in its early stages of testing and development. The Firefox Home...
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