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Can Chrome continue to chip away at Internet Explorer?

Posted January 3, 2011 - 1:53 pm

As we kick off 2011, it seems like a good time to look back on the ebb and flow of browser market share during the past year. Each month when new market share stats are released vendors spin them this way or that to portray their own browser in the best possible light, but looking at the big picture over the course of a year is more telling.
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Rogue Websites exploit flaw to track your Web history

Posted December 3, 2010 - 4:44 pm

Be careful the next time you visit some of the Web's most popular porn, news, and torrent sites as they could be peeking at your browser history without your consent. Researchers at University of California, San Diego have discovered that 485 of the 50,000 most popular Websites in the world are exploiting a flaw that lets them read your browser's Web history. The offending sites include YouPorn.com, Gamesfreak.com, Newsmax.com, and TwinCities.com, according to the researchers.
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Xmarks browser sync stays alive after purchase

Posted December 2, 2010 - 2:44 pm

Password sync service LastPass has acquired Xmarks, the popular browser sync tool, for an undisclosed amount of cash and a share of revenues, the CEO of LastPass said today.
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Google patches Chrome for second time this month

Posted April 29, 2010 - 7:40 pm

Google patched three vulnerabilities in the Windows version of Chrome earlier in the week, marking the second time that it's plugged security holes this month.
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It's time to update your Web Browser

Posted April 1, 2010 - 11:53 am

Internet Explorer isn't the only Web browser that's been bedeviled by security problems lately. Firefox has trouble too.
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A Quick IE Fix

Posted March 15, 2010 - 1:16 pm

While neither is perfect, Microsoft has released a pair of quick fixes for its latest IE security hole.
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The Microsoft good news/bad news Patch Tuesday

Posted March 11, 2010 - 6:34 pm

Microsoft fixed a bunch of Windows problems. Yea! On the same day a major Internet Explorer zero day vulnerability was revealed. Boo!
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Another day, another Internet Explorer security hole

Posted March 1, 2010 - 3:48 pm

It seems like every other week there's a new Internet Explorer security hole. Here's the story on the latest.
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Replace IE6 with anything but IE 8

Posted February 15, 2010 - 5:24 pm

Everyone agrees that Internet Explorer 6 should be trashed, but IE 8 also has its share of problems.
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The IE Fix is in

Posted January 24, 2010 - 12:00 pm

First, the good news, Microsoft's fixed the IE bug used to attack Google. The bad news: the bug had been known for months.
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Who cares if IE is patched soon?

Posted January 19, 2010 - 1:56 pm

Microsoft promises that IE will be patched again soon. So what? It will just break again.
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Dump Internet Explorer Now

Posted January 17, 2010 - 7:05 pm

The latest attacks on Google have made it clear. Internet Explorer is a set of security holes masquerading as a Web browser. Get rid of it. Now.
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Mix and match Web browsers are a bad idea

Posted October 5, 2009 - 12:25 pm

While it's certainly amusing that Google's Chrome add-on to Internet Explorer can increase its speed by more than ten-times, it's lousy security.
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Chrome buries Windows rivals in browser drag race

Posted September 21, 2009 - 9:01 pm

Google's new Chrome 3.0 is the fastest of the top five Windows browsers, and beats every rival, including Apple's Safari, by comfortable margins, benchmark tests show.
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Fake virus infection Web pages are everywhere

Posted September 15, 2009 - 10:39 am

Even the New York Times was recently hit by a plague of fake virus infection Web pages. Here's what to look for and what to do when you see one.
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Microsoft's IE Mobile Browser Needs a Makeover

Posted September 14, 2009 - 9:33 am

Internet Explorer Mobile (formerly known as Pocket Internet Explorer) has been on Windows Mobile devices for a long time now--and it shows. Based on a proprietary layout engine that Microsoft designed from scratch, the current Internet Explorer Mobile is one of the most underwhelming browsers available on smartphones today.
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Palm Pre Browser Matches Up Well With iPhone Safari

Posted September 14, 2009 - 9:27 am

The Palm Pre's WebOS browser is a relatively recent entrant in the mobile browser arena, arriving in early June of this year. But the Pre's new mobile browser comes fully prepared for a battle royale with other leading smartphone browsers.
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Android Browser Excels in Search Tasks

Posted September 14, 2009 - 8:34 am

The main page of the Android browser looks a bit more crowded than that of the iPhone or Palm Pre browser; but overall the Android browser competes very well with its peers. The Android browser is built into Google's Android mobile operating system and tightly integrated with it.
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What's really the safest Web Browser?

Posted August 19, 2009 - 12:30 pm

Here's a hint. Despite a recent Microsoft-sponsored report saying otherwise, it's not Internet Explorer.
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Adobe tool renders site designs in different browsers

Posted June 3, 2009 - 8:21 am

Adobe has created a Web-hosted tool to help designers see how their sites look in a variety of browsers and operating systems, so they can adjust the layout as needed.
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AMD releases beta of new 3D multimedia browser

Posted April 9, 2009 - 4:25 pm

Chip maker AMD has released a beta of a new 3D browser, which is designed to let users easily share multimedia files stored on their PCs with their social networks.
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11 Free Ways to Beef Up Your Web Browser

Posted March 24, 2009 - 3:52 pm

Use these free browser add-ons to take notes in your browser, see thumbnails of Web pages in Google searches, drag an address in a Web page to an add-on and map it instantly, and quickly download video with one press of a hotkey.
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Mozilla delays Firefox 3.1 again, slates another beta

Posted February 26, 2009 - 4:09 pm

Mozilla Wednesday announced it will add another beta to the Firefox 3.1 development schedule, a move that will push the browser's ship date to the second quarter or later.
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Safari 4 browser beta is innovative, fast, fun

Posted February 26, 2009 - 2:30 pm

Apple's Safari 4 beta -- available for Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista -- caught the tech world by surprise. Even more surprising are the number of innovative features it offers, including in-your-face browser interface advances, under-the-hood updates for notably speedy rendering performance, and open-standards compliance.
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Safari’s new tabs: Good or bad?

Posted February 26, 2009 - 12:27 pm

Among the new features in Safari 4 beta is a major overhaul of the program's interface. Perhaps the most controversial change in Safari 4 for the Mac is a new approach to tabbed browsing that places tabs at the top of the window--replacing the traditional title bar--rather than in a dedicated tab bar.
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