January 14, 2011
Google’s Chromium Security Rewards program offers participants cash bounties for the discovery of eligible bugs. Rewards range in value from $500 to an ‘elite’ $3133.7 (get it?), and up until now, that max payout has never been claimed.
Enter Sergey Gl…
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January 4, 2011
Call it merely a regional victory if you will, but Firefox’s rise to become the most used browser in Europe is a victory nonetheless. According to the free website analytics firm StatCounter, Firefox took 38.11 percent of the European browser market in…
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January 3, 2011
Google’s Chrome browser is now the go-to browser for 1 out of every 10 PC users, suggests new data by Net Market Share. Let’s put that in perspective. At the beginning of 2010, Chrome’s share of the browser market hovered around 5.6 percent. By the end…
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December 23, 2010
After failing to keep up with the original Firefox 4 release schedule due to “regressions and sources of instability,” Mozilla had to revise its initial estimates and push back the launch of the stable version to 2011. The open source outfit on …
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December 15, 2010
We get it, you’re not about to give up ______ (fill in the blank with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or IE), which other browser makers will have to pry from your cold, dead hands. But aren’t you the least bit curious what the competition is up to?
Now is as…
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December 10, 2010
Those of you rocking Firefox 3.6.x, go ahead and check to see if you’ve automagically downloaded the latest update, version 3.6.13 (or 3.5.16 if you’re still sitting pretty with Firefox 3.5). The latest update plugs more than a dozen security holes, in…
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December 9, 2010
Xmarks, the browser bookmark sync and search service that had a near brush with death, is alive and kicking thanks to being acquired by LastPass, makers of a cross-platform password manager. To celebrate its new lease on life, Xmarks this week official…
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December 3, 2010
The latest version of Google’s Chrome browser — version 8.0.552.215, or Chrome 8 from here on out — now supports Web apps, meaning it will work seamlessly with Google’s upcoming Chrome Web Store.
That alone doesn’t do Chrome users much good in the he…
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