Computerworld - Mozilla on Tuesday shipped its newest browser, Firefox 18, which sports a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple's higher-resolution Retina displays. The open-source developer also patched 28 security ...
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IDG News Service - Google has taken steps to close potential security holes created by a fraudulent certificate for its google.com domain, discovered in late December. The certificate was erroneously issued by an intermediate certificate ...
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) turned things around in 2012, posting an annual usage share gain for the first time in the last eight years, according to data published earlier this week by a Web analytics company. Net ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) turned things around in 2012, posting an annual usage share gain for the first time in the last eight years, according to data published earlier this week by a Web analytics company. Net ...
Google on Friday said Chrome 25, now in development, automatically blocks browser add-ons installed on the sly by other software. The measure mimics what rival Mozilla did for Firefox over a year ago. Auto-blocking has already appeared ...
Computerworld-Mozilla yesterday released a first beta of its next browser,Firefox 18,touting a revamped JavaScript engine and support for Macs with Apple's higher-resolution"Retina"displays. Firefox 18 is currently slated to ship in final ...
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PC World-For all the media attention that goes to Ubuntu,Linux Mint,Fedora,and the other leading Linux distributions,casual observers would have to be forgiven if they have no idea that hundreds of other distributions are out there as ...
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Mozilla today said that income from search partners climbed 31% last year, hinting at the reportedly lucrative deal the open-source foundation struck with fierce browser rival Google. Royalties, almost all of which come from search ...
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The first stable version of Qubes OS,an open source desktop operating system designed to provide a greater level of security by isolating programs inside virtual machines with different permissions,was released Monday by Polish security ...
Attackers are exploiting a "zero-day" vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and hijacking Windows PCs that cruise to malicious or compromised websites, security experts said Monday. Microsoft confirmed the IE bug, saying, ...
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Microsoft today said users of Windows 8 will be able to change the default setting for the"Do Not Track"privacy feature in Internet Explorer 10(IE10)when they first run the new operating system. Do Not Track(DNT)signals whether a user ...
Computerworld - Google yesterday boosted payments to researchers for reporting bugs in Chrome, saying the move was prompted by a decline in vulnerabilities submitted by outsiders. "Recently, we've seen a significant drop-off in externally ...
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Computerworld-Several major software companies,including Microsoft and Symantec,today kicked off what they called"International Technology Upgrade Week"in an attempt to persuade users to keep their code current. Upgrades have been hotly ...
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IDG News Service - Mozilla released Firefox 15.0.1 on Thursday to fix a bug that potentially exposed the websites visited by users while in "Private Browsing" mode. "Private Browsing" mode enables Firefox users to surf the Web without ...
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Mozilla has released a fix for the latest version of its Firefox browser a day after it was withdrawn due to a security flaw. The non-profit organisation said the vulnerability in Firefox 16 could allow a malicious website to capture web ...
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