Browser Security News

Opera has released a software update that fixes at least seven security vulnerabilities in the Web browser program. Users may be prompted to update when they first launch the browser. Alternatively, Opera surfers can simply select "Help" and "Check for New Release."

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer remains the most popular browser in the world. This despite report after report calling the program less secure than Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and other free competitors. Yet IE remains the preferred browser of nearly four out of five people surfing the Web.

The future of the web is fast approaching. The specifications for HTML 5, the successor to today’s HTML 4, are still in the draft phase, but already forward-looking browsers are starting to add limited support for HTML 5 elements. The web has grown and changed in remarkable ways since the release of HTML 4 in […]

It’s up to your Web browser to make using the Internet easy and enjoyable — it’s arguably the most important piece of software you use. As the Internet becomes more integral to daily life, the browser you use is of great importance to software companies too. That’s why every major browser developer is working on […]

In our recent coverage of the Firefox 3 beta releases (1, 2, 3, 4), we have noted performance improvements and a significant reduction in memory consumption relative to Firefox 2. The enormous amount of effort that developers invested in boosting resource efficiency for Firefox 3 has paid off, and the results are very apparent during […]

With recent news about Internet Explorer 8’s imminent beta, Microsoft’s long and checkered history with web standards compliance has been hurled back into the harsh, unflattering spotlight. Even though IE8 will have a new "standards compliant" mode, it won’t be perfect, stirring up a new wave of grumbling about Microsoft’s attitude and position in the […]

A flA Flaw in the way the Firefox and Opera browsers handle an image file could allow an attacker to see what Web sites a person has visited. The problem concerns how the two browsers handle a “.BMP,” or bitmap, image file, according to an advisory written by Gynvael Coldwind of Vexillium.org, who posted a […]

Opera chief executive Jon S. von Tetzchner flew in from Norway for an update on the company’s Web browser, including the claim that the next version could be about ten times faster than Internet Explorer. According to von Tetzchner, Opera’s is expanding into the mobile market. And, not surprisingly, the upcoming Opera 9.5 revision will […]

With the help of the Dr.Web Anti-virus link checker for Opera you can check for viruses and various malicious programs on any Internet page before you visit, or any file on the Internet before you download by the latest version of the Dr.Web Anti-virus with the hottest add-ons to the virus database!

Scandinavian web browser provider Opera announced a new feature that allows users to access their bookmarks and favorite websites list (called “speed dial”) wherever they go. Out of Opera’s three consumer offerings - Opera for Desktop, Opera Mini, and Opera Mobile - the first two will be able to natively load the bookmarks that you […]