Browser Security News

The future of the web is fast approaching. The specifications for HTML 5, the successor to today’s HTML 4, are still in the draft phase, but already forward-looking browsers are starting to add limited support for HTML 5 elements. The web has grown and changed in remarkable ways since the release of HTML 4 in [...]

The latest version of Apple’s Safari Web browser functions poorly, or crashes altogether, on computers running Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, according to frustrated users. "When I try to start Safari 3.1 in Windows XP, it crashes right away," said SakJosep, in a post currently on Apple’s online support forum.

Suddenly, Mozilla seems mightily concerned about Apple’s Safari. Internet Explorer can only benefit from the impending conflict. Mozilla took a surprisingly proactive approach with Firefox last week, and neither move really had to do with Microsoft.

The battle for your in-box shows no signs of waning. Despite the efforts of software companies large and small, spammers and phishers continue to find and exploit weaknesses in junk-mail filters at the server and client levels.

Modern browsers are much better than their predecessors at keeping your Web activity private and your data safe. Still, you may not have your browser configured to provide optimum security. Take a few minutes to give Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 a safety check.

It’s up to your Web browser to make using the Internet easy and enjoyable — it’s arguably the most important piece of software you use. As the Internet becomes more integral to daily life, the browser you use is of great importance to software companies too. That’s why every major browser developer is working on [...]

Apple has announced a final build of its version 3 Safari web browser for Mac and PC. But is it worth you even looking at it? The question, of course, is whether it offers anything over and above the well-worn alternatives.

In our recent coverage of the Firefox 3 beta releases (1, 2, 3, 4), we have noted performance improvements and a significant reduction in memory consumption relative to Firefox 2. The enormous amount of effort that developers invested in boosting resource efficiency for Firefox 3 has paid off, and the results are very apparent during [...]

The new Safari 3.1 includes patches for at least 13 documented flaws, including one that puts Mac OS X at risk of drive-by code execution attacks. Apple has shipped a new version of its flagship Safari Web browser to fix more than a dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both Windows and Mac users.

Microsoft’s improved support for Web standards in its Internet Explorer 8 browser is laudable — but it could cause big headaches for enterprise IT developers. That’s the opinion of analysts at tech research firm Gartner, which cautions in a new report that IE 8’s default standards mode "will result in pages that don’t display correctly [...]