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Article | 13/11/2010 IE9 lags on popular websites: Report
Speed is supposed to be a hallmark of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9, but the head of a Web optimization firm says improvements are negligible on the...
Article | 12/11/2010 Firefox F1 fights back against RockMelt
The timing might sound suspicious to some observers, but Mozilla has just announced a social networking plugin for Firefox that offers some of the fea...
Article | 12/11/2010 Firefox 4 regains speed mojo
With the release of Firefox 4 Beta 7, Mozilla returned to near the top spot in browser performance rankings.
Article | 10/11/2010 Chrome browser set to become 'wicked fast'
Earlier this fall Google promised that hardware acceleration advances were going to make Chrome 7 as much as 60 times faster than its predecessor, and...
Article | 10/11/2010 Mozilla Firefox celebrates 6 years
Mozilla is celebrating the sixth birthday of its Firefox browser today, and it's inviting users of the popular free and open source browser to help by...
Article | 9/11/2010 iPhone's Safari dials calls without warning, says researcher
A security researcher is asserting that Apple has made a poor security decision by allowing its Safari browser to honor requests from third-party appl...
Article | 9/11/2010 Rockmelt: The Facebook of Web browsers
A new Web browser, Rockmelt debuts in limited beta Monday and aims to help you keep tabs on your Facebook friends, your favorite sites, and make your ...
Article | 9/11/2010 RockMelt social browser faces tough sell
The odds are stacked against RockMelt, a new browser designed to serve as a social networking hub, industry analysts said today.
Article | 9/11/2010 Google promotes Chrome with free in-flight Wi-Fi deal
Google today said it will sponsor free Wi-Fi on three major U.S. airlines during the last six weeks of the year to promote its Chrome browser.
Article | 9/11/2010 20 must-have IE and Firefox shortcuts
I spend hours and hours exploring the Web. At times all that mousing around makes my right hand hurt. So I try to use keyboard shortcuts at least some...
Article | 6/11/2010 Firefox 4 Beta for mobile still rough around the edges
The latest Firefox 4 Mobile beta for Android and Maemo promises more speed and a fresher look, but it's still not ready to replace the default browser...
Article | 5/11/2010 Mozilla's new Firefox beta for Android improves speed, size
Mozilla has released an faster, smaller beta version of its Firefox 4 browser for Android-based smartphones with an improved user interface, according...
Article | 5/11/2010 No HTML5 crown for IE9 yet, W3C says
Following the flurry of reports early this week that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 had bested key competitors in the browser arena on early HTML5 co...
Article | 5/11/2010 Facebook users squint at font size change
Before you make an appointment with your eye doctor, it's not your eyes. It's Facebook.
Article | 5/11/2010 Google quashes 12 Chrome bugs, gives users early Flash fix
Google today patched 12 vulnerabilities in its Chrome browser, all of them rated as high-level threats by the company's security team.