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Article | 4/12/2010 Microsoft's 'China problem' means IE6 lives on
A Microsoft executive's self-described job of driving Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) into extinction will be difficult unless he can move Chinese users off...
Article | 3/12/2010 Google Chrome 8: What's new, and what's next
The blogosphere may be buzzing about Google's Chrome OS and Chrome Web Store this week, but Google itself is focusing on its original Chrome product: ...
Article | 3/12/2010 Google quashes 13 Chrome bugs, adds PDF viewer
Google on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Chrome as it shifted the most stable edition of the browser to version 8.
Article | 3/12/2010 Google, Adobe sandbox Flash for Chrome to protect users
Adobe and Google have collaborated to put the Flash Player plug-in inside a sandbox within Chrome, an effort by the two companies to better protect us...
Article | 2/12/2010 Internet Explorer 6 usage plummets...finally
Internet Explorer 6 was originally released in the summer of 2001. At the time, it was a significant step forward for Microsoft and helped to establis...
Article | 2/12/2010 Google's Chrome web store looks set to launch
Though most recently expected to debut in October, Google's Chrome Web Store may now finally be on the verge of launching.
Article | 30/11/2010 Five best browser innovations of 2010
The browser wars have changed. During the last couple of years, the four or five leading browsers have all greatly improved -- to the point that the c...
Article | 25/11/2010 Android browser flaw exposes user data
A vulnerability in the Android browser could permit an attacker to steal the user's local data, according to a report yesterday from security expert, ...
Article | 25/11/2010 Opera upgrades mobile browser for Symbian
Looking to speed up browsing on the Symbian platform, Opera Software released on Wednesday Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian/Series 60 phones, offering fa...
Article | 23/11/2010 Mozilla confirms an app store is on the way
Along with its audited financial statements indicating a revenue increase of 34 percent last year, Mozilla late last week also published a "State of M...
Article | 19/11/2010 Search deals generate 97% of Mozilla's income
Although Firefox's usage share has been stalled for the last year, Mozilla's revenues were up 34% in 2009, largely on the back of money paid the organ...
Article | 19/11/2010 Apple patches critical 'drive-by' Safari bugs
Apple today patched 27 vulnerabilities in Safari for Mac OS X and Windows, 85 per cent of them critical bugs that could be exploited to hijack Macs or...
Article | 18/11/2010 Microsoft fixes security tool after Google reports Chrome problems
Microsoft on Wednesday patched an enterprise security tool that had blocked some copies of Chrome from updating.
Article | 18/11/2010 Microsoft's IE exec downplays JavaScript scores
Microsoft's top executive for Internet Explorer (IE) today dismissed browser speed trials as "at best, not very useful, and at worst, misleading."
Article | 16/11/2010 What if Facebook and Chrome mated: Meet RockMelt
Does the world need yet another browser? It depends. If you're like me, and spend a lot of time on the Web, but not too much time with social networki...