Browser Security News

New versions of favorite applications are always a little tricky; you want to keep up with the times without fixing what ain’t broke. With that in mind, I took a look at the newly released Firefox 3 Beta 2 to see what we can look forward to when the final version ships in 2008.

The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users. Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 February 2008, the company has said. In the mid-1990s the browser was used by more than 90% of the web population, but numbers have slipped [...]

I can live without Microsoft Word, and I’m confident I could manage well enough if you removed Excel from my PC. Even my favorite e-mail app is a nonessential. But take away my browser, and I might as well not even start up my PC. Mozilla Firefox is the first program I open and the [...]

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.

Microsoft Corp. acknowledged late yesterday that security patches issued last week for Internet Explorer (IE) crippled the browser for some users, but rather than rework the fix, the company offered up a registry hack work-around.

With hundreds of millions of lines of code contained in Web browser applications, even the most informed and seasoned developers are bound to overlook a couple of things. This is the answer many security experts come up with, when asked the question: What’s up with Internet Explorer these days?

Mozilla fans can now download Firefox 3 beta 2 for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. The new version sports a wide range of improvements over the first test version of the browser upgrade, most notably plugs for memory leaks, security fixes, and a download manager that includes improvements previously available only through plug-ins.

Microsoft Corp. confirmed today that it is investigating reports that a security update for Internet Explorer issued last week has crippled some users’ ability to get on the Web with the browser. Users started posting messages to multiple Microsoft support newsgroups almost immediately after Microsoft released the MS07-069 security bulletin on Dec. 11, saying that [...]

The rhetoric coming from Microsoft and Mozilla has heated up in recent days on who is doing a better job on web browser security. I’d prefer to frame the debate in terms of who is doing worse than the other because both companies have had lots of security issues with their respective browsers. [...]

Microsoft is patting itself on the back for having had fewer vulnerabilities in IE than have been found in Firefox. Microsoft has issued a report on Internet Explorer in which it pats itself on the back for having fewer vulnerabilities in its browser than are in the No. 1 competitor, Mozilla’s Firefox—a stance that the [...]