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What browser is leading the market even so: Internet Explorer or Firefox?

September 2, 2010 - 3:43am | Figures | News

According to the data from the Net Applications regarding to browser market share in August, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 holds its leadership, advancing all its rivals in growth.

However, elder Internet Explorer 6, an outdated and insecure browser, refuses to die down, though it’s losing ground violently.

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Opera 10.6: faster Java, geolocation and new WebM support

June 16, 2010 - 9:42am | News | Other themes

Opera unveiled the preview its next browser release, 10.6 - featuring support for geolocation and royalty-free WebM video and HTML5 offline web apps.

The app is supposed to be the next major milestone for Linux and BSD users, since Opera is skipping an official 10.5 release for those platforms. As the company assures the new version of the JavaScript engine is up to 75% per cent faster

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EU-Microsoft dispute over consumer browser choice comes to end

December 8, 2009 - 5:06am | Law aspects | News

Long-term dispute between the EU and Microsoft Corp is likely to come to an end next week when EU antitrust regulators will accept company’s amended offer on allowing consumer choice on Internet browsers.

European Commission was expected to approve Microsoft's plan to make it easier for consumers to choose rival browsers on the firm's Windows operating system, which is used on a majority of personal computers.

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Adobe add-on to Firefox turns out spyware

September 2, 2009 - 7:14am | Fraud | News

A new malware was developed to attack Firefox users so as to steal the information about their searching habits and then inject ads into the user’s Google search results pages. The malicious code poses itself as an Adobe Flash Player 0.2 update but in reality it has nothing to do with either Adobe or Mozilla.

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Nine security flaws patched in Firefox 3.0.9

April 23, 2009 - 2:55am | News | Other themes

An updated version of Firefox browser was released on Tuesday by Mozilla, reports the Register. The new pack is meant to address nine security vulnerabilities one of which is the most critical.

The critical flaw addressed by Firefox 3.09 relates to a memory corruption problem. The two "high-risk" flaws involve same-origin violation security bugs. The remnant six flaws are as follows:

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Will you be imposed to shift to Internet Explorer 8?

April 14, 2009 - 6:44am | News | Other themes

Microsoft said that starting the third week of April users of IE 6 and 7 on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 will be receiving notifications through the Automate Update service that encourages them to upgrade their system to the latest IE 8 version of the browser.

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Internet Explorer 8, faster and more secure browser?

March 19, 2009 - 10:22am | News | Other themes

Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8. The new Web browser that can be downloaded in 25 languages from the company site from noon EDT on March 19 when compared to other browsers is easier to use, works faster and offers leading-edge security features.

A research commissioned by Microsoft and the National Cyber Security Alliance and conducted by Harris Interactive Inc.

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Beta or not beta, which Google Chrome is better?

March 18, 2009 - 10:48am | News | Other themes

Google reintroduced Chrome’s beta "release channel," seeking user feedback on a new beta that's allegedly 35 per cent faster on the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, reports the Register. Interestingly, just three months ago in December the Mountain View Chocolate Factory took an unprecedented step to remove the “beta” tag from its Chrome browser and now we have another beta channel of Chrome.

beta version | browser | Chrome | google | internet

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Will Google and Mozilla terminate their partnership?

March 12, 2009 - 7:28am | News | Other themes

While Google continues to develop and introduce new technologies its partners become concerned about the future of their business that can be impacted by the new products of the searching engine giant. Mozilla is considering possible options to go on without Google’s default search feature on the toolbar of Firefox.

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New Internet Explorer 8 promises more safety, security and privacy

January 27, 2009 - 10:24am | News | Other themes

Microsoft has launched updated browser, Internet Explorer 8. The new browser is projected to help make Web browsing with safer, easier, and more compatible with Internet standards.

First of the main changes introduced to the IE is related to tabs. In cases of accidentally closing a browser window in IE 8, user is able to restore it when the program is reopened. IE 8 uses color coding to group related tabs together.

browser | IE8 | Internet Explorer 8 | software | Windows

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Will Microsoft acknowledge Opera and other browsers

January 19, 2009 - 5:44am | News | Other themes

The European regulators' attack intends to make Microsoft include rival browsers with Windows simultaneously with Internet Explorer and therefore give users option. They pretend to turn Windows into a system that distributes other companies' software.

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Browsing the Internet with no traces through the new Firefox

December 10, 2008 - 2:30am | News | Other themes

Mozilla introduced its latest trial version of the Firefox browser supplied with the privacy mode feature. Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 can now be downloaded by website development professionals and used to surf the web without their activity being recorded on their computers due to the Private Browsing Mode option.

browser | internet | Mozilla Firefox

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UK consumers to use Skyfire mobile web browser

December 10, 2008 - 12:39am | News | Other themes

A popular beta browser for mobile devices Skyfire that practically replicates the functionality of the PC browser was launched recently in the UK. This week the company announced the introduction along with the updates added to the browser. Earlier the Skyfire beta browser was launched in the United States and Canada with users expressing their satisfaction brought by the platform.

browser | mobile Internet | Skyfire

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