Web browser news as it happens
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4 Mar 2010Mozilla is hard at work on the next version of Firefox, and the latest alpha builds include out-of-process support for plugins.
“Plugins such as Flash and Silverlight run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins are automatically restarted” said an announcement [...]
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22 Feb 2010Microsoft has begun testing of its new browser ballot screen for European Union countries.
The ballot screen, which can be seen at http://www.browserchoice.eu/, lists the 5 major browsers in a random order, followed by 8 lesser known browsers also in a random order.
Early testing by DSL.sk shows the ballot screen might not be as random as [...]
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12 Feb 2010Private browsing will now extend to the Flash plug-in with Flash Player 10.1 Adobe have announced.
“Integrating with your web browser, Flash Player 10.1 will automatically clear stored data in accordance with your browser’s private browsing settings” said Adobe Engineer Jimson Xu.
Flash Player 10.1 supports private browsing with Internet Explorer 8+, Mozilla Firefox 3.5+, and Google [...]
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8 Feb 2010Mozilla appears to have let it’s guard down, with a Firefox add-on that included a Trojan that could allow remote access to a users PC.
Two add-ons were affected; Master Filer which was infected with a password-stealing Trojan called Win32.LdPinch.gen, and Sothink Web Video Downloader which was infected with a backdoor Trojan called Win32.Bifrose.32.Bifrose.
Mozilla has issued [...]
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4 Feb 2010Mozilla’s Stephen Horlander has been hard at work, working on tab animations for the next version of Firefox, Firefox 4.0. The aim is to improve the user experience.
“One area that animation would be very beneficial is with tab interactions. Specifically moving/arranging tabs on the tab strip, closing/opening tabs and tearing off tabs into [...]
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1 Feb 2010Time appears to slowly be running out for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), as Google has announced plans to drop support for the browser in its Google Sites and Google Docs applications.
“Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by [...]
After an almost month long release candidate, Mozilla has released the final version of Firefox Mobile for Maemo devices.
Firefox Mobile is almost a direct port of it’s big brother Firefox, with a completely redesigned user interface for touch screens.
The browser includes the awesome bar, a download manager, early HTML5 support, tabbed browsing, add on support, [...]
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25 Jan 2010Firefox 3.6 has introduced a new tab behaviour, where new tabs are opened next to your currently selected tab, while Firefox 3.5 and older would open new tabs at the end of all your tabs.
If you don’t like this new behaviour, you can change it back to the way it was. Simply follow these steps:
Go [...]
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22 Jan 2010As announced yesterday, Mozilla have released Firefox 3.6 right as expected at 9:30 PST.
Firefox includes many new features, including:
Support for a new type of theme called Personas
Checks for out-of-date plugins
Full screen support for HTML5 <video> tags
More HTML5 element support
Improved JavaScript speed and stability
Plus more
A full list of changes in Firefox 3.6 can be found in [...]
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19 Jan 2010Mozilla has pushed out a second release candidate for Firefox 3.6.
The update is said to close a security flaw, of which very little details are available.
Current Firefox 3.6 testers will receive the update automatically, or it can be downloaded from the Firefox Beta website.
Firefox 3.6 final was expected today, but is now expected on January [...]