Web browsers
Speed kills and the race is on to cook up the most stable and fastest browser around. That situation means innovation abounds. Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox are No. 1 and No. 2 in market share, but Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome are also pushing the field. Toss in smaller players like Opera, which does better on mobile platforms than the PC, and these are interesting times.
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Firefox to change its look--again
Part of the Mozilla plan for the future of Firefox involves revising the browser's interface, currently code-named Australis. Check out the company's plans for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.
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Mozilla plans Metro-specific Firefox for Windows 8
Mozilla doesn't want to be left out of the Windows 8 Metro fun.
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How much online privacy do you really have? Less than you think
How much privacy do you have on the web? An independent group called PrivacyChoice has undertaken the formidable effort of assigning a numeric score to popular websites, measuring their published...
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Mozilla patches 'critical' Firefox security hole
Mozilla rates this a "critical" vulnerability that can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.
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Chrome for Android -- best mobile browser
Chrome for Android is already the best mobile browser on any tablet.
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Review: Chrome 17, faster than ever, more secure than ever.
Google's popular Chrome Web browser just keeps getting faster and more secure with every release.
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Patch Tuesday heads-up: 21 vulnerabilities, including 'critical' IE bulletin
Fixes coming for dangerous security holes in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, the Internet Explorer browser and .NET/Silverlight.
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Gallery: Google Chrome on Android Tablet
The newly released Chrome for Android beta is a full port of the Chrome browser for desktop operating systems and is intended to eventually replace the built-in Android browser.
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Google's Android+Chrome likely a winning combo
The marriage of Android and Chrome -- just as the union of Android code for smartphones and Android code for tablets were merged -- will give Google stronger ammunition as it battles Apple's...
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Tour the first Chrome beta for Android (screenshots)
Chrome comes to Android in a big way, if you can get your mitts on an Ice Cream Sandwich-powered device. Here's a look at what the latest Android browser has to offer.
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Chrome Beta for Android demo on video
The Chrome browser is now available for Android phones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich. Here's Chrome captured on video in action.
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Google Chrome Web browser finally comes to Android
It took three years, but the popular Google Web browser, has finally arrived for Android users... well Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, users anyway.
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Coming to Firefox: Flash Player in a sandbox
Adobe says sandboxing technology has proven very effective in protecting users by increasing the cost and complexity of writing effective exploits.
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Adobe puts Firefox Flash plugin in the sandbox
Flash to become safer for Firefox users.
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Did Google withhold malware protection details from partners?
Google's Safe Browsing API is a core security feature of Chrome that Google shares with Firefox and Safari. Now, a security research firm that specializes in measuring the effectiveness of these...
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Firefox 10 eases add-on updates but no Android yet
The biggest change that most Firefox users will see in version 10 is that you'll stop seeing most add-ons marked as incompatible with each new version of Firefox.
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Still stuck on Microsoft's IE 6? There's an updated tool for that
Browsium has a new version of its 'get off IE6' tool that is no longer based on Microsoft's IE6 browser engine.
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Mozilla's mobile gap: How bad is it?
Even with a native Android browser on deck, there's a good argument to be made that Mozilla is already too late.
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Researchers spot scammers using fake browser plug-ins
Security researchers from Symantec, have spotted a fake browser plugin-in currently circulating in the wild.
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Google shares Chrome browser security principles
Google provides a useful document that helps users understand what's under the Chrome browser's hood, especially as it relates to keeping hackers at bay.
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