Mozilla this week suspended development of a 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows, citing add-on incompatibilities and low priority for the project. In a message posted to Bugzilla, the company’s bug- and change-tracking database, ...
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Google will pull the plug for Chrome running on OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, after it releases version 21, which is currently in beta and will reach the browser's "stable" channel sometime next month, the company has announced. Chrome 22, the ...
Microsoft on Monday issued a security advisory that confirmed in-the-wild attacks are exploiting an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer. The software maker is working on a fix. The advisory addressed the “zero-day” ...
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Mozilla Foundation and other activist groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have called for the release of Bassel Khartabil, an open-source developer who was detained on March 15 in the Mazzeh district of Damascus in a wave of ...
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Atop the new investigation into Microsoft's failure to give some Windows users a browser ballot screen, European Union (EU) antitrust officials are also looking into charges that Microsoft has blocked rival browser makers from harnessing ...
Tags: EU, Microsoft, browser makers, Windows 8
The online industry doesn't need new privacy legislation because it is doing a good job of protecting users' privacy, an executive of an advertising trade group told U.S. lawmakers Thursday. Even as Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, ...
Google will drop support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) for its online apps and services in mid-November, effectively ending support for many users of Windows XP. "Internet Explorer 10 launches on 10/26/2012, and as a result, ...
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Google has moved a step closer to making good on its promise to support "Do Not Track" in Chrome by the end of this year. Chromium, Google's open-source project that feeds code into Chrome, released a build last week that includes the Do ...
Microsoft may face a huge fine for failing to offer millions of Windows users a choice of web browser, despite apologising to the European Commission (EC). A 2009 EU antitrust settlement required Microsoft to offer PC owners the ...
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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that almost all browsers currently used in smartphones and tablets are unsafe, so much so that even cyber-security experts are unable to detect when they are visiting ...
Tags: mobile browser, SSL, W3C, TLS
Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome,making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Chrome 23,which ...
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IDG News Service-Nokia plans an ambitious expansion of its mapping and location-based services platform beyond its own smartphones to competing devices running OSes other than Windows Phone 8,it said Tuesday. The move is being backed with ...
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Cybercriminals are using a new PDF exploit that bypasses the sandbox security features in Adobe Reader X and XI, in order to install banking malware on computers, according to researchers from Russian security firm Group-IB. The zero-day ...
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Mozilla introduced a pre-loaded list of domains for Firefox that only can be connected to securely in order to help protect the privacy and security of users. To force secure connections between the browser and a server,Mozilla uses ...
Tags: Firefox, Secure Connections, privacy and security, HSTS, browser
Microsoft's 16-month browser ballot screw-up in the European Union cost Mozilla an estimated 8.8 million downloads of its Firefox browser,the open-source vendor's head lawyer said Tuesday. Microsoft faces fines that could reach into ...