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Article | 4/11/2010 What you need to know about new IE zero-day
Internet Explorer is under attack again. Microsoft has issued a security advisory explaining a newly-discovered exploit impacting most versions of the...
Article | 4/11/2010 Hackers exploit unpatched IE bug with drive-by attacks
Microsoft today warned that attackers are targeting Internet Explorer (IE) with an exploit of a critical unpatched vulnerability in all current versio...
Article | 3/11/2010 Firesheep not evil, says snooping tool's maker
The security researcher who created the Firesheep snooping tool defended his work today, saying it's no one's business what software people run on the...
Article | 3/11/2010 IE9 and Chrome 7 top early HTML5 tests
The newly released sixth preview of Internet Explorer 9 best handles the forthcoming HTML5 standard, followed by Google's Chrome 7 Web browser, accord...
Article | 2/11/2010 Microsoft claims IE8, IE9 outgrew Google's Chrome last month
Microsoft's claim that Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and IE9 beat the usage share gains posted by Chrome last month don't hold up, according to the data t...
Article | 29/10/2010 Chrome: Switch to new tab
When you right-click a link in Chrome and select Open link in a new tab -- or if you point to the link and click the wheel rather than one of the butt...
Article | 29/10/2010 Opera Mini 5.1 beta available for Symbian S60 phones
Opera has made a beta version of its mobile browser, Opera Mini 5.1, available for mobile phones running the Symbian S60 platform.
Article | 28/10/2010 Mozilla delays Firefox 4 release until 2011
Mozilla today announced that it will delay the release of Firefox 4 until 2011.
Article | 28/10/2010 Mozilla: No 'kill switch' for Firesheep add-on
Mozilla today said it wouldn't -- or couldn't -- pull a "kill switch" to disable the Firesheep add-on that lets anyone steal log-on and account access...
Article | 27/10/2010 Mozilla warns of unpatched Firefox flaw used in attacks
Mozilla developers are scrambling to fix a new Firefox browser bug being used by criminals to install malicious software on victims' computers.
Article | 27/10/2010 The 30 best Safari extensions -- so far
Following in the footsteps of Firefox and Chrome, Apple this summer began allowing developers to create extensions for its Safari 5 Web browser and mo...
Article | 23/10/2010 Build a custom browser with Mozilla Chromeless
No matter how many choices there are in the Web browser arena, it's a pretty safe bet that many of us would love to tweak some aspect of the interface...
Article | 23/10/2010 Google fixes 11 Chrome flaws, debuts stable version 7
Google patched 11 vulnerabilities in Chrome on Thursday as it updated the browser to version 7.
Article | 20/10/2010 Mozilla quashes 12 Firefox bugs
Mozilla on Tuesday patched 12 vulnerabilities in Firefox, including a second patch for a "binary planting" problem in Windows that researchers publici...
Article | 18/10/2010 New Adobe Reader sandboxed, simplified
Adobe has released the new version of its Reader PDF viewing software, and with it comes a number of changes: a new Roman-based numbering scheme ("Ado...