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Your dad’s Wall Street Journal was the sheet that aimed to tell you everything you needed to know that morning to face the many-headed, irrational beast known as The Market. Your Wall Street Journal? It wants to have the very best sourcing on what your next iPhone is going to look like, and it usually succeeds.

Now that Google’s released a developer preview of Chrome OS’ almost entirely new look, it feels like a good time to do some Q&A.

Google has released Chrome from the penalty box and reinstated the browser's PageRank after a 60-day self-imposed sentence over a rule-breaking marketing campaign.

Mozilla has kick-started development of a Metro-style version of Firefox for Windows 8, Google has committed to doing the same and Opera Software said yesterday that it's looking into the matter.

The browser battle returned to a kind of normalcy last month as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which had posted its largest-ever share increase in January, declined slightly in February

Adobe today said that it would stop offering direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux, telling users to move to Google's Chrome browser, which bundles Flash with its updates.

With the arrival of Chrome Beta for Android, the convergence of Google's desktop and mobile browsers has begun.

The Chromebook looks right now to the average laptop buyer like an all-electric car looks to the average car buyer: full of what-if questions and untested theories of living

My personal jury is still out on Google Chrome. I made the switch from Firefox a couple months ago, and while I like Chrome's speed, features, and overall stability, I do encounter occasional glitches.

Rising unrest among Firefox faithful is now heading to a boiling point of dissatisfaction. How long do you stick with an old favorite when the problems don't get fixed?

Plus: Netflix finds that angering customers isn't profitable.

Context--an independent information security consultancy--has published a new report on security flaws with WebGL. The report, "WebGL--More WebGL Security Flaws", includes a video clip demonstrating why organizations should think twice about relying on Web browsers built on WebGL.