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The World Wide Web Consortium Has Finalized Its Specification for Web Storage
Aug 5, 2013The World Wide Web Consortium has finalized its specification for Web Storage, a technology that would give Web applications more flexibility in storing data on user machines. Now that Web Storage is an official specification, browser ...
Tags: Web Storage
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A New Addition to a Mozilla Wiki Noted That The Browser Will Be Completed Oct. 2,2013
May 13, 2013Firefox for Windows 8's "Modern" user interface (UI) will likely wrap up development in November, Mozilla said on its website in a best case-worst case schedule. A new addition to a Mozilla wiki noted that the browser will be completed ...
Tags: Firefox, Computer Products
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Online Advertising Industry Has Not Lived up to a Promise to Stop The Online Tracking
Apr 27, 2013The U.S. online advertising industry has not lived up to a promise to stop the online tracking of Internet users who ask advertisers to do so, a senior U.S. senator said Wednesday. Senator John "Jay" Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, ...
Tags: Senator, Computer Products
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Mobile-Based Browsing Is Making Significant Inroads on Traditional Internet Access
Mar 25, 2013Mobile-based browsing has tripled in the last two years, and is making significant inroads on traditional Internet access from personal computers, according to statistics from a Web metrics company. Mobile's gains are in part a side ...
Tags: Mobile, Browser Usage, app
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Mozilla Won't Be Building Firefox for Ios Unless Apple Changes Its Rules
Mar 13, 2013Mozilla won't be building Firefox for iOS unless Apple changes its rules, a company executive said Saturday. Jay Sullivan, Mozilla's vice president of product at Mozilla, told an audience at South by Southwest Interactive (SxSW) that the ...
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Google Patched 10 Vulnerabilities in Chrome
Mar 6, 2013Google today patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, just two days before the start of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest that has $100,000 in prize money waiting for the first researcher to crack the browser. In an update Monday for the Windows ...
Tags: Google, Service, web service
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Mozilla Will Automatically Block Third-Party Cookies Starting with Firefox 22
Feb 27, 2013Mozilla will automatically block third-party cookies starting with Firefox 22, which is slated to ship this summer, according to the Stanford University researcher who coded the change. The move, which will make it more difficult for ...
Tags: Mozilla, third-party cookies, company news
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Mozilla Released Firefox 19, Adding a Built-in PDF Viewer to The Browser
Feb 21, 2013Mozilla today released Firefox 19, adding a built-in PDF viewer to the browser. The integrated viewer was the one noticeable change to users, although Mozilla enhanced under-the-hood features as well for website developers, and added ...
Tags: Mozilla, in-Browser PDF, Firefox Bugs
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Microsoft This Week Patched 14 Vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer
Feb 18, 2013Microsoft this week patched 14 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE), preparing the browser for its time as a target early next month at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. On Tuesday, Microsoft patched 57 vulnerabilities, including ...
Tags: Microsoft, Internet Explorer, patch
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Mozilla Would Disable All Plug-Ins in Firefox Except The Latest Adobe's Flash Player
Feb 1, 2013Mozilla yesterday announced it would automatically disable all plug-ins in Firefox except the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player, citing security and stability reasons for the move. The feature, called "click-to-play," has been part ...
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Oracle on Sunday Issued an Emergency Java Update to Patch Two Critical Vulnerabilities
Jan 16, 2013Oracle on Sunday issued an emergency Java update to patch two critical vulnerabilities, including one that had been exploited in ongoing and accelerating attacks. Also yesterday, a researcher noted for uncovering scores of Java bugs ...
Tags: Oracle, emergency Java, Java bugs
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a Built-in PDF Viewer Component Has Been Added to The Beta Version of Firefox 19
Jan 15, 2013A built-in PDF viewer component based on JavaScript and HTML5 Web technologies has been added to the beta version of Firefox 19, Mozilla said Friday. The browser maker described the built-in PDF viewer as more secure and safer than ...
Tags: Firefox 19, Mozilla, browser
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Google Taken Steps to Close Potential Security Holes Created by a Fraudulent Certificate
Jan 8, 2013IDG 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 ...
Tags: Google, software, browser, HTTPS servers
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Microsoft's IE Turned Things Around in 2012, Posting an Annual Usage Share Gain
Jan 8, 2013Microsoft’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 ...
Tags: Microsoft, Internet Explorer, IE, 2012, annual usage share
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer Turned Things Around in 2012
Jan 8, 2013Computerworld - 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 ...