Browser Security News

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 [...]

Safari is faster than rival browsers from Microsoft and Mozilla, a North Carolina Web testing firm said Wednesday — putting proof to Apple Inc.’s June boast that its browser was the quickest. Michael Czeiszperger, general manager of Web Performance Inc. of Durham, N.C., used his free time and some of WPI’s tools to measure how [...]

My attempts to interview Chris Wilson, Microsoft’s platform architect for Internet Explorer, appear threatened by technical difficulties even before the discussion begins. His temporary-conference-visitor speaker phone in Sydney won’t work, then my computer crashes just before the interview starts, which in the sub-planet of Vista I’m forced to inhabit means a ten-minute reboot time.

As a web page loads, it initiates a variety of code, programs, responses, hits on the database, graphics, and calculations. These can impact how much memory is consumed depending upon how many of these tasks are activated when viewing a web page. Code and programming such as PHP, Javascript, and Ajax, which currently make up [...]

…After running Internet Explorer 7 for a full day now and throwing just as many tabs at it as the ‘fox, its RAM suck-uppage consistently stayed less than HALF of Firefox’s. I mean, sure, you have to reboot twice to install the thing and it doesn’t have extensions or bookmark keywords or quite support web [...]