Browser Security News

Google will suspend Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) support for its Gmail and Calendar services later this year, the company said today. The move will come at some point after March 1, when Google will start scaling back IE6 support for Google Docs and Google Sites.

While Microsoft is touting the fact Internet Explorer 8 is the single most widely used Web browser, the combined percentages of IE 6 and 7 users surpass it. The use of the older browsers means many users aren’t taking advantage of the latest browser security protections.

One of the ways Microsoft plans to push Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 users to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 is convincing them the latest version is much more secure, which it is. Dean Hachamovitch, general manager of Internet Explorer, last week posted a story on the IEBlog about how IE8 managed to [...]

Microsoft Corp. will begin pushing Internet Explorer 8 to users running the older IE6 and IE7 browsers next week, the company has announced. Although people running earlier versions of IE8 have been seeing upgrade offers since Microsoft released the final code last month, only now is the company getting around to posting the new browser [...]

Firefox 3 has become the first non-Microsoft web browser to overtake Internet Explorer 6 in market share, according to new data from StatCounter.

Microsoft released its long-awaited Internet Explorer 7.0 browser on Oct. 19. The free download allows Windows users to replace IE 6.0, which hasn’t had a serious feature update since it first came out in 2002. IE 6 has been a serious p.r. problem for the Redmond software company, producing a string of warnings — seemingly [...]

Brian Krebs has gone beyond the normal finger pointing at Microsoft and actually gather the statistics to prove how insecure Internet Explorer 6 was in 2006. For 284 days of 2006 IE6 had substantial, unpatched flaws that were being exploited and probed. It sounds like there might be just a little bit [...]

In 2007, Internet Explorer 6 will almost certainly lose its crown as the most popular Web browser after holding the title for many, many years. Since IE6 was launched in 2001, its leadership has not seriously been challenged. The release of Firefox two years ago certainly gave Microsoft a much needed kick in the pants [...]

Like most Web designers, I need to test my Web designs on as many versions of as many browsers as I can, so that they display correctly for all my customers. Internet Explorer makes that very difficult because IE is built into the Windows OS – and so even if you use a hack, it [...]

Many of you have asked how to run IE6 and IE7 in a side by side environment. As Chris Wilson blogged about early this year, it’s unfortunately not so easy to do. There are workarounds, but they are unsupported and don’t necessarily work the same way as IE6 or IE7 would work when installed properly. [...]