Browser Security News

Readers of the IE Blog were warned multiple times before the release of IE 7 that some of the bug fixes included in the latest version of the browser could break websites. Because of Microsoft’s commitment to backwards compatibility, websites based on Web standards would be at the greatest risk of breaking, especially sites that […]

As far as I’m concerned, the real question that’s bouncing around in everyone’s mind is which browser is better: IE 7 or Firefox 2? Speaking as a Firefox user, even I have to admit that Internet Explorer has made some significant improvements compared to its predecessor. From the inclusion of tabs to the addition of […]

Microsoft will write a software plug-in that allows the Firefox open-source Web browser to work with Microsoft’s CardSpace identity management technology. The plug-in will be written at Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab and released eventually to the open-source community, said Hank Janssen, the lab’s program manager, at the TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona on Wednesday.
"We’re […]

On the Wild Wild Web, where scams, fraud, and identity theft are commonplace, which browser protects you more effectively? Is it Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla’s Firefox 2.0?
According to a new report from software testing firm SmartWare — a report commissioned by Mozilla — the answer is Firefox, at least when it comes to […]

More than a month after Microsoft released a study recommending its browser’s anti-phishing features, the Mozilla Foundation struck back on Tuesday with a survey using different data, and unsurprisingly, came up with different results.
Using 1,040 phishing sites flagged by the open PhishTank database over a two-week period, the Mozilla Foundation found that Firefox 2.0 blocked […]

Starting early next year, the address bar in Internet Explorer 7 will turn green when surfing to a legitimate Web site–but only in some cases, not all.
The colored address bar is designed to be a sign that a specific site can be trusted, giving people the green light to carry out transactions there. It is […]

This may sound like a counter-intuitive argument, since Microsoft is the current leader in the browser market (at least in terms of users). That said, in my view, the company is the underdog in this current browser war — just like it was once upon a time.
In the first browser war back in the early […]

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 web browser has been generally available for nearly three weeks now.
Yet despite its availability and the fact that it was available in beta and release candidates for testing for an even longer period of time, IE 7 may well be presenting barrier to remote access via SSL-VPNs (Virtual Private Network).

One of the most useful additions to Firefox 2 is the inline spell check feature that hints you of possible spelling mistakes as you type inside web forms.
While spell checking is a killer feature, Firefox 2 dictionary is incomplete and misses a lot of commonly used web terms including Google. This becomes all the more […]

Users of Firefox 1.5 should plan to upgrade their browser by April 24 of next year at the very latest, according to Mozilla Corp. That’s because April 24 is the date developers plan to stop issuing security and stability fixes for the open-source browser, Mozilla said Wednesday in a note posted on the Mozilla.com Web […]