Browser Security News

Opera Software, which is battling hard for market share with Google’s Chrome, is promising users a faster surfing experience, an improved email client, and better browser-synchronisation capabilities, with the latest version of its browser launched this week.

A popular Firefox add-on designed to block scripts and plug-ins has been updated to stymie the new "clickjacking" class of attacks, the extension’s developer said today.

The shine is gone as some Google Chrome users return to Internet Explorer and Firefox just three weeks after the Chrome browser’s launch. Net Applications found Chrome use down substantially from the first week of its release. Google’s Chrome drew fire from privacy advocates for its data collection. IE remained the dominant Web browser.

The source code underlying Google’s Chrome Web browser suggests that Google used a reverse-engineering technique called disassembly to figure out how to employ a useful Windows Vista security feature, but the company said it did not, in fact, do so.

Redmond on Monday continued to rebuff assertions that a "suggested sites" feature in Internet Explorer 8, currently at Beta 2 release, invades user privacy. IE8 Beta 2’s suggested sites feature sends user information to Microsoft based on the URLs typed into the browser’s address bar.