BitDefender today released its 2012 family of security suites, which have been enhanced with a range of new and interesting features. [......]
Several months ago you could have criticized Mozilla for dragging its feet with new Firefox releases while one of its main rivals -- Google Chrome -- was kicking out new builds nearly as fast as you could download them. [......]
Mozilla's Firefox browser rose to prominence by doing things Microsoft's Internet Explorer refused to do, like tabbed browsing, providing frequent updates (five years passed between the release of IE 6 and IE 7), playing nice with Web standards, and supporting extensions. [......]
Internet Explorer has never been renowned for its standards support, and with good reason -- the browser has always trailed far behind the competition. Today's release of IE10 Platform Preview 2 , though, showed that maybe, just maybe, things are beginning to change. Major additions include support for web workers, an interesting technology that allows web applications to run complex JavaScripts in the background. And so lengthy tasks won't have to leave you hanging any more: the application's interface should still be able to respond to your clicks. [......]
Firefox 5 may be short on visible new features, but look under the hood and you'll find plenty of useful tweaks that both cut resource use and improve performance. If you like the browser but would prefer even more speed, though, there is an alternative in Pale Moon 5 , which was released today. The program looks more or less exactly like Firefox 5 , which is no great surprise as it's based on the same source code. So there's no learning curve, everything works more or less as it always did, except Pale Moon has been carefully optimized to improve its speed and efficiency. [......]
Finding your way around online as quickly as you can is becoming more and more important. Current net users want to zip from site to site without worrying about remembering addresses or working out where they're stored in bookmarks[......]
Apple's iOS 5 is slated for release this fall, presumably with iPhone 5. But the Android Army doesn't have to wait, like the iPhone idolators[......]
We used to have a love/hate relationship with sticky notes. They were great for jotting stuff down, but over time the small yellow squares ended up consuming the entire surface of our desks in a slow, ever-expanding Blob-like wave[......]
After five weeks of testing on the Firefox Aurora channel, Firefox 5 has graduated to the beta channel. Maybe more important is the fact that this release shipped on time, which bodes well for Mozilla's planned June 21 launch date for the final version. And while there aren't a ton of changes in Firefox 5, Mozilla's mechanics rooted out 1,053 bugs under the hood for what's hopefully a smoother ride. [......]
Outdated browser plugins pose a considerable security threat. [......]
There's a new version of Google's Chrome browser available in the beta channel. Chrome 12 beta includes a handful of upgrades and enhancements, such as "snazzier" graphics, hardware accelerated 3D CSS, security and privacy upgrades, improved screen reader support, and better Flash integration. [......]
Google Chrome has amassed quite a favorable reputation for security with both users and security researchers. To its credit, it is the only web browser to have never been hacked at the annual Pwn2Own hacking competition. In fact, on the first day of this year’s Pwn2Own contest (Mar 9-11), Google even offered a $20,000 cash prize to anybody who could circumnavigate the browser’s sandbox “using vulnerabilities purely present in Google-written code.” While no one managed to claim the prize back then, researchers from French security firm VUPEN now claim to have finally “Pwnd Google Chrome and its sandbox.” Hit the jump for more[......]
Between the PlayStation Network fiasco that compromised millions of user accounts and Netflix terminating a call center employee for snooping on credit card records, connected users have reason to be on edge. [......]
Up until today, the jury was still deliberating on whether Microsoft's decision to skip XP support for its Internet Explorer 9 browser and focus its attention squarely on Windows 7 was sound or stupid. Judging by the market share numbers, it appears Microsoft knew what it was doing[......]
Google on Wednesday released Chrome 11 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame, and in doing so, paid a combined bounty of $16,500 to bug hunters. That's the most Google has ever had to retrieve from its treasure chest for a browser update, and the sultan of search was more than happy to do so in order to plug up more than two dozen security holes, the majority of which carried a security rating of "High." While some of the bug discoveries went unpaid, the rest were worth anywhere from $500 to $3,000 , the biggest payout awarded for "possible URL bar spoofs with navigation errors and interrupted loads." As for the browser itself, Google says "Chrome 11 contains some really great improvements including speech input through HTML." Internet users need a microphone to take advantage of this feature, and one of the first services to utilize speech input is Google Translate , which includes a listen option. [......]
