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If you’re looking for major changes or significant new features in the just-released RC1 version of Internet Explorer 7, you’ll be disappointed. But plenty of work has gone on under the hood, and you’ll find this a more solid, faster, less buggy release than the previous one. It features better RSS support, a much-improved [...]

AllPeers released a beta Thursday of what it called the most ambitious Firefox extension to date, a peer-to-peer application that would allow friends and family to share files and content between one another in a private setting.
Unlike the major P2P networks, AllPeers allows the sharing of files securely and privately.
The application has been released on [...]

Mozilla has accepted Microsoft’s offer of help towards ensuring interoperability between Firefox and the upcoming Vista operating system.
Microsoft’s offer to help came on Saturday when the director of the company’s open source lab, Sam Ramji, posted an open letter to a newsgroup used by Mozilla developers. Microsoft offered to open up a new open source [...]

Internet Explorer 7 RC1 is available for download on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, and Windows Server 2003 systems. This build is available today in English, and all localized versions of Internet Explorer 7 RC1 will be available in September, including Arabic, Finnish, German, and Japanese; French and Spanish versions will also [...]

ONE OF USUAL ways to learn more about a particular product is simply typing the name of the product with www. as a prefix and .com as a suffix.
However, we received an e-mail from young Croatian couple who found a different result on their IE7 search.
Since the battle against upcoming Internet Explorer 7 may decide [...]

Internet Explorer program manager Markus Mielke acknowledged that Microsoft has a long road ahead in efforts to achieve CSS standards compliance, saying IE7 was only a "stepping stone." The company has made over 200 "behavior changes" for CSS 2.1, which it outlined Tuesday.
IE7 is currently being locked down and is expected to be completed later [...]

Amid the recent slew of news of identity thieves worming into our computers with spyware and malware to copy our keystrokes to steal our vital information, here comes some bright news for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer: A browser plugin named KeyScrambler was released by OFX Software, a startup based in Ormond Beach, Florida.

It’s been a weird couple of weeks for Internet Explorer and, as it turns out, me. On August 7, 2006, Jeff Reifman blogged about a supposed statistical analysis of Internet Explorer (IE) 6, IE 7, Firefox, and Opera in which each browser was scored for its standards compliance. According to this data set, Firefox 1.5 [...]

I often tend to judge people based on the type of browser they use. Believe it or not, the choice of your favorite browser reveals a lot about your personality.
IE 5.0:
You only use your computer for IM, email and Myspace. You stubbornly refuse to upgrade that ancient Win 98 box that you are using [...]