Browser Security News

In response to today’s news that Google is releasing its own browser, code-named Chrome, I decide to call John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla Corp., the folks behind the fast-growing Firefox browser. My intention was to find out what Lilly thought about this development, especially since Mozilla has been viewed as close personal partner of Google’s.

Mozilla has renewed an agreement with Google Inc. that pays the browser maker for assigning Google’s search engine as Firefox’s default, Mozilla’s former CEO said this week. The three-year deal is good through November 2011, said Mitchell Baker, currently the chairwoman of Mozilla Corp., in a post to her blog on Tuesday.

The new Safari 3.1 includes patches for at least 13 documented flaws, including one that puts Mac OS X at risk of drive-by code execution attacks. Apple has shipped a new version of its flagship Safari Web browser to fix more than a dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both Windows and Mac users.

Two aspects of Mozilla’s close ties with Google over development of the Firefox browser have Chris Soghoian concerned about a conflict of interest in play. People who adopt Firefox as a replacement for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer think they are turning aside a monopolist in favor of a more secure and open browsing alternative. It may […]

Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google. The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million. We are also hearing that this investment is part of a “much larger strategic deal” between the two companies.

Google has begun alerting users whenever they click on a search result that may take them to a dangerous Web site. The new feature, which had been spotted earlier this week, goes live officially Friday, according to an announcement from The Stop Badware Coalition, which is collaborating with Google on this effort.
When users attempt to […]

Not everyone runs as many "personal" computers as I have — 24, at last count — but many of us have both a PC and a laptop. One of the big problems, whether you run two dozen or two PCs, is keeping your Web browser bookmarks and other settings straight. And, when you run more […]

I woke up Saturday morning to an email from Sun’s Francois "Mr. JavaDB" Orsini that alerted me to Google Browser Sync. If you’ve caught any of my previous blogs about JavaDB, then you know that I’m pretty excited about its potential to solve the so called "offline" problem with Web based applications like the […]

The next release of Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer continues to concern Google Inc., which nonetheless has no plans to develop a competing browser, Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said Wednesday. Microsoft is currently beta testing IE7, which contains a search box with a drop-down menu set by default to use the company’s search engine, […]

Google Inc. has no plans to build its own Web browser software to compete with rival Microsoft Corp., Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday.
During a conference call with Wall Street analysts, Schmidt dismissed speculation that the company aimed to tie together its Web search and other services to compete with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the […]