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Do you consider yourself to be a privacy aware Internet user? Are you concerned about your security online? You’ve installed antivirus and spyware software, which you also keep updated. You regularly update your operating system for any security patches. You have a firewall on your home computer and have locked down your home wireless network [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

…I’ve been using the iteration billed at the beta version of Flock 1.0 for the past few days. And I’m so impressed that I’ve done something I didn’t see myself anytime soon: I’ve dumped Firefox as my primary gateway to the Web. For now, I’m using Flock as my default browser on both my desktop [...]

I know that a lot of you may object but this is how I see it and there is nothing wrong in expressing what we strongly believe in. The next generation of security tools will run from the browser. And I am not referring to Web security tools only. I am talking about the whole [...]

* Fixed an issue where external news readers and e-mail clients could be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Michael A. Puls II. See our advisory.
* Fixed an issue where scripts could overwrite functions on pages from other domains. See the advisory. Issue reported to [...]

Web browsers are such an important and, by now, mature application, you’d think they’d have error messages down. But in fact they’re pretty bad at them. Even routine errors like mistyped addresses present messages that are confusing to novices. The Web is simple when everything works right. Of course, it doesn’t always work out that [...]

What do you get when you cross a Firefox with a chameleon? An open-source Web browser whose user interface is adapted to the look of the operating system it’s running on. One change planned for the upcoming Firefox version 3, code-named Gran Paradiso, is this more native appearance.

Mozilla user interface design specialist Alex Faaborg wrote a lengthy blog entry last week about plans for the Firefox 3 visual refresh. Faaborg explained the importance of creating applications that visually integrate with the rest of the operating system and displays screenshots of the new default Firefox 3 themes for Mac OS X and Vista.