Browser Security News

When Apple chose the KHTML engine for its Safari Browser in 2003 over the more popular Gecko engine that powers Firefox, a lot of people were surprised. Firefox was way more popular than the Konquerer browser and had a lot more open source developers online.

Apple Inc. matched a Microsoft Corp. move last week by reissuing a security update to fix its Safari browser, which began crashing while loading certain Web sites after users installed the first draft of the patch.

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 […]

A full disclosure report from Insecure.org refers to a flaw in Safari 3.0.3 which allows local zones to access external domains. The Safari 3 Public Beta was released on June 11 for Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista. This beta version is for trial purposes and intended to gather feedback prior to a full release. […]

A million people can’t be wrong, can they? Well, yes, they can. That many people have downloaded Apple’s browser, newly available to Windows users, because it has that sleek, gorgeous Macintosh designed look, it’s claimed to load some web content faster than other browsers (according to Apple), and yes it has tabbed browser windows. But […]

Shortly after Apple introduced its Safari Web browser, I switched — primarily because Internet Explorer for the Mac flat-out sucked. I use several other browsers, but my day-in, day-out workhorse is still Safari. However, just because that’s my browser of choice, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best option. I’ve already written reviews for Firefox […]

Safari is either making huge gains or holding steady in the browser wars; it all depends on whose stats you use. The same can be said of Firefox, while Internet Explorer is losing ground in the US but holding steady worldwide. The conflicting numbers come courtesy of two web metrics tracking firms, Net Applications and […]

SafariSpeed just got a whole lot better. SafariSpeed 2 introduces an array of useful new features. In addition to removing Safari’s page loading delay and disabling favorite icons, SafariSpeed 2 can disable Safari’s cache for an even greater performance boost, turn on and off Safari’s debug menu and PDF support, and easily switch Safari’s interface […]

Will Apple release a version of its Safari browser for Windows? The Mozilla Foundation seems to believe such a move is a distinct possibility. Buried in the wiki information the Mozilla Foundation posted this week about its future plans for Firefox is a statement under the "Observations & Assumptions" section that reads: "Apple may have […]

Mozilla’s and Apple’s browser utilities are making gains on market leader Internet Explorer. Microsoft’s Windows-only Web browser is still clearly the dominant player, but its numbers are steadily decreasing. It started 2006 at 85.31 percent. In January 2005, however, it held 89.44 percent of the market. Its loss is a gain for Firefox and Safari.