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According to a research conducted by a security group Firefox and Chrome browsers cannot detect new phishing attacks that targeted recently customers of Bank of America and PayPal. The phishing scam manages to bypass fraud protections built in to the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome by attaching an HTML file to the spam email.

Google again came at the top of the rating charts. This time it was due to negative factors. Its web browser Chrome was ranked as the number one application in the "Top Vulnerable Applications - 2010" list compiled by Bit9.

The statistics is based on the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology's official vulnerability database, so the results are a little hard to argue with. Chrome came first with a big margin (76 vulnerabilities) beating Apple’s Safari which came second with 60 problems.

Mozilla claims that its browser has the fastest SunSpider scores on the planet after its internal tests revealed that the company’s latest Firefox JavaScript engine — which includes the new JagerMonkey extension — outperforms both Google Chrome's V8 engine and Apple Safari's Nitro. The tests, apparently excluded Opera and Internet Explorer. Director of community development Asa Dotzler made the claim on Monday morning with a blog post.

While the new Firefox engine trails Chrome on Google's V8 benchmarks Mozilla has reached a milestone nonetheless.

Google, Arcade Fire and director Chris Milk have partnered to launch a project that combines one of the band's new songs with images of the viewer's childhood home and bits of video. Titled "The Wilderness Downtown” the project will run perfectly only via the Google browser Chrome. Besides, users will have to close other programs too as the media show is very processor consumptive.

According to a report from the sources familiar with the case Google is releasing its spec-tastic, low-cost, possibly even free Chrome OS tablet a month before Christmas. The table will likely be on sales only in the United States and those who want to purchase the device for a lower price than the iPad will have to subscribe for a Verizon airtime tariff.

The unnamed sources say that the tablet is scheduled for the launch on Friday, November 26, the day after Thanksgiving.

As Microsoft released its new Hotmail service last week a great number of complaints have been posted on the forums since then. Users express their utmost dissatisfaction with the new interface. In light of these events the Redmond company advised its consumers to access email accounts via Google Chrome browser in order to successfully connect to the upgraded service.

According to a new research four major browsers fail to remove users’ personal information even when they browse in a private mode. While privacy settings provided by the browsers should supposedly allow users to visit a website without leaving any trace on their computers, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari frequently leave tracks, according to the research, which is scheduled to be presented at next week's Usenix Security Symposium in Washington DC.

Google is planning to add device orientation to its Chrome browser which will be applicable to Chrome based tablets. While this is not new, as Apple has been practicing the feature for a long time, the ability for an app or OS to know that up is up and down is down will be new for Chrome devices.

Google announced on its web blog that it will block insecure plug-ins from running on top of its Chrome Internet browser so as to prevent perpetrators from exploiting the security bugs.

Google’s security team noted that the feature which is scheduled to be included into the browser in “medium term” will prevent Chrome from running "certain out-of-date plug-ins." It will also help users find updates.

Recent study by Net Applications that covered the Web browser market share shows that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 is increasingly gaining market share at the expense of Google’s Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

While the figures say that Chrome gained recently a 0.32% share thus totaling its market to 7.05% Internet Explorer 8 and its upcoming successor IE9 are gaining the momentum.

Google has started developing audio capabilities for browsers. These capabilities could undoubtly serve as industry-standard technology.

The search engine giant is rolling out voice recognition and text-to-speech capabilities for mobile and desktop browsers.

Since Google showed off its new Android Cloud to Device Messaging service that’s a part of Android 2.2 at Google I/O , everyone has been talking about the ability to push Android to their devices.

Actually, the service let owners of the Android devices automatically send links from the computer to the handset.

Mozilla has announced the introduction of a web service that allows users of different browsers including Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, and Safari to check whether plugins for their web surfing applications are up-to-date and don’t contain bugs or vulnerabilities.

By coming to the page http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ a user can see the report that shows the analysis of all the installed plugins. As it appears some of the plugins are still in research stage by Mozilla and there is no firm conclusion of whether they are safe or not.

According to Net Applications survey, Google's Chrome allured more than a few additional users , diminishing the gaps between it and two other leaders, Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Thereby, Net Applications revealed Chrome's March market share to reach 6.13%, up 0.52% from its February standing of 5.61%. That appears to be impressive gain to pull off in so short a time, especially given the smallish size of Chrome's user base.

Last week Google revealed its ideas about the tablet "concept UI" two days before the official launch of Apple iPad. Google user interface designer Glen Murphy hoisted the mock-ups onto the Chromium Projects site.

In the range of ideas Google offers a touchscreen interface that expands the Chrome "chrome" browser.