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In Pictures: The 10 most important milestones in Web browser history

Okay, say you have this shiny new car. It looks great, it performs like a demon, it features all the latest safety gadgets, and it's crawling with creature comforts. Just one problem, though. The local tinkerer, clearly consumed by jealousy, comes by sometime during the night to disassemble the entire thing. Sitting in the middle of a zillion bits and pieces the next morning, you quickly realize how totally useless this marvelously complicated car has become. This is the Internet without a browser. Far more than the blank slate it appears to be, a Web browser is ridiculously sophisticated and entirely capable of morphing the code-crazed reality of the Internet into the Matrix-like façade we now can't live without.

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In Pictures: 10 things to know about Firefox 17

A brief look at what’s new in Mozilla’s latest browser.

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In Pictures: Firefox 17

We take a look at the latest version of Mozilla's browser

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Your Browser in Five Years

The next big computing platform won't be Apple's Mac OS, Google's Android, or Microsoft's Windows. It's already here--and it's the Web.

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News about browsers

Article | 17/05/2013 Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox
Mozilla has postponed blocking third-party cookies by default in the Beta version of Firefox 22, "to collect and analyze data on the effect of blockin...
Article | 15/05/2013 In Pictures: The 10 most important milestones in Web browser history
Okay, say you have this shiny new car. It looks great, it performs like a demon, it features all the latest safety gadgets, and it's crawling with cre...
Article | 6/05/2013 Mozilla, Otoy team on JavaScript video codec
The Mozilla Foundation and graphic rendering technology company Otoy have built a video codec, written with JavaScript and WebGL, that would eliminate...
Article | 16/04/2013 Google adds IT admin features for Chrome browser
Google has beefed up the administration and management controls that IT staff have over their users' Chrome browsers.
Article | 3/04/2013 Mozilla, Google, Opera introduce new Web browser engines
There could be big changes coming to the fiddly and sometimes annoying Web browsing experience on cellphones.

Tutorials about browsers

Article | 18/02/2013 Google Chrome: How to make it faster, smarter and better than before
If you aren't using Google Chrome yet, you should be. When it comes to browser speed--and especially JavaScript performance--Mozilla and Microsoft can...
Article | 16/03/2011 Internet Explorer 9: A getting started guide
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 officially launched late Monday and is ready for download here.
Article | 15/12/2010 Quick tips for speeding up Mozilla Firefox
Read on if you've ever been frustrated by slow performance in Firefox.
Article | 29/07/2010 8 killer Safari 5.01 extensions
Apple's new Safari extension gallery looks a lot like the iOS App Store, populated with colorful icons that hold strange and wonderful things. In case...
Article | 30/06/2010 Install the latest Firefox 3.6.6 in Ubuntu Linux
Firefox 3.6.6 with crash protection is now available, and according to Mozilla it "provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows and Linux users when th...

Features about browsers

Article | 10/12/2012 13 killer Chrome apps to replace your desktop software
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the first Web browser in 1990, it was just an application made to read HTML pages passively. Fast-forward to today, and ...
Article | 17/09/2010 First look: Internet Explorer 9 beta makes waves
One of the best ways to see what's changed with the ninth and newest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer is to tune into beautyoftheweb.com and ...
Article | 25/08/2010 Chrome patches show the power of open source--and Google
Google's patching of vulnerabilities in its open source Chrome Web browser last week wasn't so much notable in itself; Microsoft, to be sure, is forev...
Article | 14/08/2010 Getting Ready For Internet Explorer 9
After four platform previews aimed at demonstrating the power of the underlying Internet Explorer 9 engine to developers, Microsoft is ready to unveil...
Article | 3/08/2010 Lab Notes: The Inside Scoop on Browser Speed Testing
If you're a regular PCWorld reader, you may have noticed the Browser Blowout story we posted last week. In it, I looked at various aspects of the majo...