Friday, July 31, 2009
Single Misplaced “&” Caused Latest IE Exploit
A security hole in Internet Explorer that opened the browser to hackers since early July was caused by a single typo in Microsoft’s code.
Friday, July 17, 2009
IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On
Just six years ago, the web was dominated by one browser: Internet Explorer, specifically Internet Explorer 6.
Monday, July 6, 2009
For Firefox, a Challenging Future Awaits
For much of this decade, Mozilla and its Firefox browser were the upstarts, out to beat the big, bad Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The Fantastic Firefox
Lately I’ve been worried about Firefox. Ever since its debut in 2004, the open-source Web browser has won acclaim for its speed, stability, and customizability. It eventually captured nearly a quarter of the market, an astonishing achievement for a project run by a nonprofit foundation. But recently Firefox seemed to go soft.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Jurassic Web
The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today: It’s 1996, and you’re bored. What do you do? If you’re one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you’d do in 2009: Go online. Crank up your modem, wait 20 seconds as you log in, and there you are–”Welcome.”
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Cloud’s Chrome Lining
Google’s release Tuesday of a test version of its new open-source web browser, Chrome, marks an important moment in the ongoing shift of personal computing from the PC hard drive to the Internet “cloud.”
Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
Why is Google building a browser? A better question is, why did it take so long for Google to build a browser? … “The browser matters,” CEO Eric Schmidt says. He should know, because he was CTO of Sun Microsystems during the great browser wars of the 1990s
Friday, April 25, 2008
Live Blogging: Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker on Opening the Mobile Web
To unleash the wild creativity of the Internet on mobile phones, we have to open them up to the real Internet, says Mitchell Baker, the second speaker of the morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
The chairman (er, chairwoman) of Mozilla says it shouldn’t matter what device you use to access the web.
Mozilla is the nonprofit that makes the Firefox browser, which is being used by hundreds of millions of people as an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
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