Technology giant Google is once more trying to corner more of the social shopping market by buying The Dealmap, a 15-month-old company that offers its own location-based daily deal service. Menlo Park, Calif.-based The Dealmap collects data from hundreds of sources and arranges deals by location, on its website [...]
Mozilla is planning to shunt 12 million users, who are still surfing the web on its aged Firefox 3.5 browser, over to a more recent version. “We need a plan to obsolete [sic] Firefox 3.5 as we can’t support it into perpetuity,” said Mozilla.
“We have been frustrated with our efforts [...]
A leading security researcher has warned that Google risks repeating Apple’s mistakes on security with its new Chrome OS.
Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system designed to work exclusively with web applications. Chrome netbooks running the new OS will be available from Google’s partners Samsung and Acer from [...]
Most of Firebird’s advantages are MSIE’s disadvantages, and vice-versa. This article will look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of Firefox in relation to MSIE.
Advantages – Security is often cited as the primary reason for users switching from MSIE to Firefox. Security is of utmost importance for software [...]
I’m probably not the only user who thinks that the increase in Firefox builds has made it difficulty to keep up to date with the latest features and improvements. Just like Google Chrome, it has gotten to a point where I’m less interested in keeping track of the development progress. The [...]
One of the biggest issues that I personally have with Firefox, and that for a very long time, is the fact that add-on preferences are not deleted when the add-on that has written them to the config is uninstalled in the browser. This means that the config file grows over [...]
After the release of Firefox 4, Firefox moved to an accelerated, Chrome-like channel system, starting with the bleeding-edge Aurora version of Firefox 5. Today they’ve released the Beta version, which will let you take advantage of its performance increases in a more stable environment.
If the stable version of [...]
In this article, I will tell you 2 major benefits of using Google Chrome 6.
To use this browser, all you need to do now is to download it from its official website. If you don’t have any ideas on how to find that official website, open any search engine and, type ‘download [...]
Adobe Reader X and Google Chrome also potentially vulnerable
Researchers have found a chink in Internet Explorer’s ‘protected mode’ security armour that hints at trouble for other Windows apps built around the technology, including Google’s Chrome and Adobe’s new Reader X.
The principle behind Protected Mode is to limit the [...]
Microsoft has admitted that its Internet Explorer browser was the weak link used by hackers to attack Google’s systems in China.
The world’s biggest software company today issued a security advisory and warned of a loophole that was used by Chinese hackers to attack dozens of US companies – the same attack that [...]