Microsoft yesterday announced new security features within the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2.
Firefox fans looking for a major update to the open-source Web browser probably will get a final version of it next month.
The Mozilla Project has smashed its target of five million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours, achieving a final tally of 8,290,545, and a six percent share of the total browser market
Microsoft will shortly make available the test version of Internet Explorer 8, which is set for final release in the first half of this year.
Mozilla has fixed seven vulnerabilities in the latest release of Firefox SeaMonkey and Thunderbird are also affected.
Steve Jobs' backflip on a key aspect of the iPhone stood out from a normal day -- broadband furore, antagonistic marketing, personal attacks and government inaction -- in the world of Australia's telecoms market.
So it seems that the 'trick' I wrote about almost a month ago is actually a useful feature and does not present a threat to security, according to Microsoft Australia's chief security advisor. But IE7 has different ideas.
Last week, two security companies spoke to me about their new products and I suddenly realised that we are close to losing the war against spyware.
This week I learned about a "trick" that you can do in Windows which, as far as I am concerned, is a serious security risk.
The Mozilla Foundation is perhaps best known for its Firefox web browser, an open source offering that was first developed to go head-to-head with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
The long-awaited Internet Explorer 7 debuted recently -- and a brand-new flaw promptly debuted a day later. While Redmond argued that the vulnerability actually comes from Outlook Express, it still affects IE7. But Mike Mullins says it doesn't bode well for the browser update, whose security enhancements Microsoft has been touting.
Opera CTO Hkon Wium Lie must feel a special kinship with the "Band of Brothers" soliloquy that Shakespeare reserves for Henry V.
Mozilla Foundation plans to soon release new versions of the browsers to deal with a recently disclosed serious security flaw and other bugs.
The software giant is playing it low-key, but a barrage of verbal pyrotechnics is around the bend.
Here's a look at Sun Microsystems' new JavaFX application, with Flickr and Twitter feeds running in Facebook within the browser, dragged to the desktop, and then put on a mobile phone. Sun Microsystems executives Rich Green and Nandini Ramani showed the JavaFX environment at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco.
At the Digital Life Show in New York City, ZDNet executive editor David Berlind gets a demonstration of an iPhone-like browsing feature that Opera will be introducing into Opera Mini, a browser designed specifically for mobile phones.
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Tiny Opera Software on Wednesday continued its campaign to demonstrate the feebleness of mainstream Web browsers, releasing a product upgrade with new features and a customisable interface.
So far, the open source browser has been getting a free ride -- nobody is criticising it. That is, until now.
The latest versions of the Opera browser include features for faster browsing, as the company continues looking for chinks in Internet Explorer's armour.
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