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 [...]
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 [...]
If you are one of the estimated 45 million Americans still using version 6 of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser, it may finally be time to update to Internet Explorer 8, thanks to a shove from Google.
Last week, Google announced that its applications such as Google Docs would [...]
Internet Explorer lags well behind its rivals when it comes to supporting the latest emerging web standards.
Not only is that bad for IE’s users, but Microsoft, once an innovator (one of the single most useful standards for today’s web, XMLHttpRequest, began life at Microsoft), isn’t even [...]
The great promise of HTML5 is that it will turn the web into a full-fledged computing platform awash with video, animation and real-time interactions, yet free of the hacks and plug-ins common today.
While the language itself is almost fully baked, HTML5 won’t fully arrive for at [...]
With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day.
But we should expect Microsoft to go on the offensive at its upcoming MIX 2010 developer conference [...]
Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is the latest iteration of the Microsoft-developed web browser. It has more features than IE6 and IE7, it is faster than IE6 and IE7, and it is definitely safer to use than IE6 and IE7. Why just the other day Microsoft announced it is aware of a new vulnerability [...]
Printing webpages can be irritating, specially when they are full of advertisements and other clutter.
Your printouts are never focused on the actual content and you find all sorts of headers, menu items, advertisements and [...]
Microsoft has helped discover a flaw in the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users.
The plug-in allows suitably coded web pages to be displayed in Internet Explorer using the Google Chrome rendering engine. Redmond warned that the plug-in made IE less secure as soon as it became available back in [...]