Tag: WEBBROWSER

You probably already know this (we know you're very smart!), but it bears repeating: your browser saves a whole lot of data about what you do. Beyond just your browser history, the most visible trail of what you do on your PC, there is also your browser cache and cookies. Cookies are used by websites to keep you logged in and to track your browsing habits to provide targeted advertisements, while ...

Niraj Chokshi over at The Atlantic wrote that, despite Google's waxing nostalgic upon the changes to its Chrome browser over the past two years, the way we surf the Web hasn't really changed since the days of Mosaic. We smell a challenge! We suggest that Chokshi take a look at pioneering 'net artist Olia Lialina's essay 'Prof. Dr. Style' -- required reading for new media artists and Web geeks. ...

This morning, Apple unveiled the latest version of its Safari 5 browser, replete with revamped extensions support and a sparkling new extensions gallery. The new browser allows users to download extensions directly from a third-party developer's site, or from the new gallery, which Engadget describes as "the App Store for browser add-ons." So far, the gallery includes extensions from heavy ...

If you're using Apple's Safari browser, your personal information may be at risk. According to security researcher Jeremiah Grossman, Safari users could be unknowingly revealing personal data to third party sites, thanks to a flaw in the browser's security framework. As the New York Times reports, the bug exploits Safari's auto-fill function, and can allow sites to access a user's name, address, ...

Firefox commands enough market share to make it the world's second most popular browser, but Internet Explorer has always kept a significant lead thanks to its presence in the enterprise market. Microsoft is very good at making things easy for large businesses, and Mozilla showed little interest in approaching that market until 2007. But Mozilla's efforts to improve deploying and managing Firefox ...

Much of the attention at yesterday's WWDC 2010 keynote may have focused on the new iPhone 4, but Apple also quietly unveiled another less glamorous update yesterday: the new Safari 5. As many predicted, the latest version of the Web browser will feature Safari Reader, and, as Engadget reports, claims to run JavaScript 30-percent faster than Safari 4, twice as fast as Firefox 3.6 and 3-percent ...

Not too long ago, we dropped by Times Square to test the crowd's knowledge of Web browsers. Surfin' the tubes has come a long way since the early days of Mosaic, and modern browsers can play games, movies and all types of other media. They've even left the constraints of the desktop to leap onto mobile devices. Although Mozilla Firefox offers countless improvements over that old standby Internet ...

The Opera browser gets plenty of attention in the mobile space, and, in the pre-iPhone days, it was the cell phone Web browser of choice for the tech elite. Many iPhone users are opting for the fast, though not flawless, Opera mini over the default Mobile Safari. But in the desktop arena, Opera still lags far behind the major players (Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer). Apparently, the ...

Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox over at Mozilla, has given the world a glimpse of what to expect in Firefox 4, which the company hopes to ship by the end of this year. Most obviously, the next version of the most customizable browser on Earth is targeting speed improvements. In most measurements of raw speed, Chrome, Opera and Safari have all surpassed Firefox, and the upcoming Internet ...

With Chrome chugging along toward version 4.0 and Firefox 3.6 just around the corner, Microsoft is in danger of falling even further behind in the browser wars. The boys in Redmond released Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) earlier this year, and while it was an improvement over IE7, we were generally disappointed with its stability. Plus, it still was far behind its competitors in raw speed. Turns ...

The War of the Web Browsers mostly takes place on one battlefield: speed. And while Google's Chrome is the clear winner on that front, there are other skirmishes -- like those over add-ons and resource usage -- of which Firefox is the clear victor. Until now the only victories that Internet Explorer could claim were 'Largest Install Base' and 'Most Vulnerable to Hackers.' But tech blog AnandTech ...

A year ago this week -- on September 1st of 2008, to be exact -- Google set the world (or, at least the geek world) abuzz by unveiling its browser project known as Chrome. When the browser first hit the market, there were plenty of questions at the front of everyone's mind, such as, "How will this affect the Firefox and Google relationship?" or, "Will Chrome become tightly integrated with other ...

Here at Switched, we're big fans of Firefox, the once alternative Web browser from Mozilla that, within a few years, has become hugely popular, with nearly one in four Web surfers using it today. We quickly downloaded the 3.5 release when it was made available a few weeks ago -- alas, a raft of security warnings are making us wonder whether that was necessarily the best idea. Not long after the ...

Google: 1, Hackers: 0. The game is far from over, but right now, Google has a pretty firm upper hand in the battle over browser security supremacy. This past week, hackers were invited to the CanSecWest security conference, where they were encouraged to break browsers and bend them to their wills. While Firefox and Internet Explorer were both hacked and exploited, it was Apple's Safari that ...

Oh Microsoft, sometimes you're so unintentionally hilarious that we just can't handle it. Apparently the folks in Redmond are tired of watching Internet Explorer (IE) get beat up in the press and decided to release their own report showing that IE8 is the fastest Web browser out there, despite all other benchmarks putting it firmly behind every modern browser except IE7. In the words of Lee ...