With the Chrome browser claiming about 11 percent of the browser market compared to Internet Explorer's nearly 57 percent grip, Google will have to settle for small victories. Like winning the love of the people. According to Amplicate , an online-option collating resource that accounts for more than 71 million public opinions of social media users, Google Chrome is the most loved browser in the world[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C,) the standards body responsible for HTML5, accepted and published Microsoft's member submission for standardized privacy features on Thursday. Last year, the Federal Trade Commission endorsed a framework for consumer privacy which suggested a persistent browser setting to protect users from services that collect and harvest browser data without users knowing about it. [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Opera software has taken a cue from Ubuntu and will be giving its browser builds "more exciting" public code names starting this year. Thursday evening, the company released a snapshot of the browser formerly known as Opera 11.10, now known simply as "Barracuda." This version updates the browser core to version 2.8.99, which adds the implementation of the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) to the browser's current list of supported web font formats which includes: TrueType/OpenType TT fonts (.ttf), OpenType PS fonts (.otf) and SVG. Also, network compatibility changes have been made: disabling Cookie2 by default, sending more compatible Accept headers upon second request, disabling TLS 1.1/1.2 by default, labeling http-to-https redirects as "secure," removing master password authentication from client certificates, and adding the ability to disable cross-network protection. [......]
By Nick Peers How safe are you online? [......]
A security researcher, known only by his nom de guerre “Cupidon-3005,†disclosed a new zero-day bug in Windows Server Message Block (SMB) on Monday. Opting for full disclosure, the security researcher posted exploit code for the vulnerability that, according to Secunia , can be exploited “to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.†It has been confirmed to affect Windows Server 2003 SP2 and Microsoft Windows XP SP3 by French security firm VUPEN [......]
Internet Explorer 9 has hit the release candidate milestone ( download ) and Microsoft is behaving like any browser vendor would when its browser reaches a new development milestone. You guessed it right, Redmond is touting the blazing speeds brought along by the Release Candidate. A lot of these improvements - are avowedly inspired by the “over 17,000 pieces of feedback†MS received from developers and enthusiasts, according to a post on the official Internet Explorer blog . [......]
Internet Explorer 9 has hit the release candidate milestone ( download ) and Microsoft is behaving like any browser vendor would when its browser reaches a new development milestone. You guessed it right, Redmond is touting the blazing speeds brought along by the Release Candidate. A lot of these improvements - are avowedly inspired by the “over 17,000 pieces of feedback†MS received from developers and enthusiasts, according to a post on the official Internet Explorer blog [......]
The only thing missing from Opera Software's press release is a Tim Allen grunt. We're not hatin', the browser maker has every reason to beat its chest, a right you earn when your browser is used by over 100 million mobile users each month[......]
By Ed Oswald , Betanews Google has donated $20,000 to a yearly hacking competition to be awarded to the first researcher able to crack its Chrome browser. The Mountain View, Calif[......]
There's a new stable build of Google's Chrome browser available today, and according to the sultan of search, it's the fastest build yet. But speed isn't the only addition. The latest Chrome version adds a couple of other goodies previously only available on beta builds, including WebGL, Chrome Instant, and the Chrome Web Store, Google announced in a blog post[......]
Android Market on the desktop? You betcha! Google went and extended the Android Market client from mobile devices to the Web, where all you need is a browser to sift through and purchase apps. [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Mozilla on Wednesday released the fourth beta version of Firefox 4 for Android and Maemo mobile operating systems. The update fixes some compatibility and performance issues, and attempts to provide an overall faster browsing experience. In the Mozilla Blog today, the team wrote "Our recent tests on JavaScript benchmarks show Firefox 4 Beta is faster than the stock Android browser; roughly three times faster on Kraken, about twice as fast on SunSpider and slightly faster on V8[......]
For the first time ever, Google's Chrome browser busted through the 10 percent global market share threshold in January, according to market research firm Net Applications . Chrome's market share has been steadily rising every month, while both Internet Explorer and Firefox go in the wrong direction. According to Net Applications, Chrome's share of the browser market was 5.22 percent in January 2010, less than half of what it is now (10.7 percent). [......]
By Nick Peers The Web of Trust (WOT) plug-in, which delivers security and privacy ratings on websites and search engine results worldwide, has extended its support to the Opera web browser now that version 11 supports the use of third-party extensions. WOT 0.9 works in the same way as it does on other supported browsers -- namely Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox -- to provide a traffic-light icon in the browser toolbar and next to search engine results to provide at-a-glance safety and privacy ratings for the websites in question[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews After pushing out two release candidates in as many days, Opera Software on Thursday released the final version (build 1190) of its Opera 11.01 Web browser. [......]
