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Article | 30/09/2010 IE users most at risk from DLL hijacking attacks
Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) are more vulnerable to rogue DLL attacks than people who use rival browsers such as Mozilla's Firefox or G...
Article | 24/09/2010 8 essential privacy extensions for Firefox
They say privacy doesn't exist on the Web -- but that doesn't mean you can't try to safeguard your personal information. Our computers are loaded with...
Article | 24/09/2010 Microsoft: IE9 to require Windows 7 SP1
Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser will require Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), a not-yet-released major update to the operating system...
Article | 23/09/2010 A browser cookie that won't go away?
"Evercookie" is the browser cookie that just won't go away. If you're concerned about having your Web browsing history tracked, you, like most people,...
Article | 23/09/2010 Browser GPU acceleration: Navigating standards minefield
Once upon a time, in the distant past, there was VGA. VGA begat "Windows Accelerators" -- graphics chips that were slightly enhanced beyond dumb frame...
Article | 22/09/2010 Microsoft flaunts 2M IE9 beta downloads
Microsoft yesterday announced that users had downloaded more than two million copies of its Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) beta in the two days after its 1...
Article | 18/09/2010 Mozilla rushes out stability fixes for Firefox
Mozilla this week updated all versions of Firefox, including the beta of the upcoming Firefox 4, to fix stability problems that crashed the browser.
Article | 16/09/2010 Internet Explorer 9 Beta
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 -- now in public beta -- is the newest version of Microsoft's browser. Compared with IE 8, it's faster, with a streamlin...
Article | 16/09/2010 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 9 Public Beta
With all the attention paid to Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox in recent years, it's easy to forget that Internet Explorer is still the World's most...
Article | 16/09/2010 Internet Explorer 9 beta strips down for speed
Those who have written off IE as being slow and old-looking are in for a surprise. The just-released Internet Explorer 9 beta is dramatically faster t...
Article | 16/09/2010 Internet Explorer 9 will crush browser competition
Today, Microsoft is hosting a special event in San Francisco to officially launch the public beta of Internet Explorer 9. It will be many months -- pr...
Article | 16/09/2010 Microsoft ships IE9 beta, pushes Web, not browser
Microsoft today released the first public beta of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), its latest effort to reclaim the ground it's lost to rivals Mozilla, Goog...
Article | 15/09/2010 Mozilla halts Firefox security updates
Mozilla has stopped providing security updates to Firefox users as it investigates a bug that caused computers to crash last week.
Article | 14/09/2010 Mozilla starts dropping features from Firefox 4
Mozilla, which launched the latest beta of Firefox 4 last week, has started to drop features from the still-under-construction browser.
Article | 9/09/2010 Apple matches Mozilla, patches DLL hijacking bug in Safari
Apple yesterday patched three vulnerabilities in Safari, including one in the Windows version that quashed a bug Microsoft said individual developers ...