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A couple of months ago, Google released the latest version of its Toolbar for Internet Explorer which introduced built-in Instant Search, enabling users to get results as soon as they start typing in the search box. The feature was not enabled by default, allowing users to ease into and Google to do some more testing... |
9 July 2011
05:05 GMT |
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Hardly surprising, but Google Chrome has continued its steady, though recently somewhat slower, rise, gaining even more users, while Firefox and Internet Explorer's market share slips away slowly. Granted, it's going to be a while before Chrome becomes a threat to Firefox, depending on who's numbers yo... |
1 July 2011
11:31 GMT |
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All Internet Explorer customers are supported equally, revealed IE boss Dean Hachamovitch recently, taking a jab at rivals Google and Mozilla which both focus more on end users, all but ignoring business customers. Hachamovitch, who is IE Corporate Vice President, pointed out that Google and Mozilla opted to support... |
28 June 2011
09:11 GMT |
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A new, updated SkyDrive website is now available for the over 100 million people who already gave the service a try, promising a faster experience, easier navigation, along with optimizations for today's modern browsers and HTML5. The new SkyDrive should have been already rolled out for all users, but, provided... |
22 June 2011
02:01 GMT |
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A critical Internet Explorer vulnerability patched by Microsoft last week is being exploited targeted attacks launched from websites that infect computers with malware.The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2011-1255, affects Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8, running on all supported Windows operating systems.It ... |
21 June 2011
14:46 GMT |
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Google has finally released a version of Google Chrome Frame which doesn't require administrative privileges to install, removing the last major hurdle for those with no alternatives to Internet Explorer.For almost a couple of years now, Google has been offering a way for those stuck with old versions of Interne... |
21 June 2011
05:26 GMT |
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WebGL is facing a tough future, at least the foreseeable one, now that Microsoft has officially come out and said that it won't be supporting WebGL in Internet Explorer, citing security concerns as the main reason behind this. Microsoft exemplified this through a number of third-party reports that showed flaws a... |
17 June 2011
05:41 GMT |
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Google Chrome continues to grab market share, though its pace may be slowing down a bit. But Firefox also saw a very small growth in the past month. Internet Explorer's market share, on the whole, is still dropping, though at the speed things change in the browser market, it's still going to be the king for... |
3 June 2011
11:41 GMT |
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Microsoft will plug a zero-day security hole in Internet Explorer that can allow potential attackers to steal session cookies from users even though it has made it clear that it doesn’t consider the vulnerability as posing a high risk to customers, and without having detected active attacks in the wild. The on... |
30 May 2011
06:25 GMT |
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Microsoft is planning to patch a recently disclosed IE vulnerability that facilitates session hijacking attacks and suggests using the browser's private mode feature until then.The new type of attack, dubbed cookiejacking, was demonstrated at the recent Hack in the Box 2011 conference in Amsterdam by Italian sec... |
30 May 2011
06:05 GMT |
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Microsoft’s efforts around HTML5 and JavaScript in the context of Internet Explorer’s evolution will surpass those of rivals Google and Mozilla, according to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer. The CEO of the third largest technology company in the world after Apple and IBM, revealed during the Micros... |
24 May 2011
13:01 GMT |
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The next major version of Flash Player, which is currently in beta stage, will leverage APIs already supported in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer to allow clearing Flash Local Shared Objects (LSOs) directly from inside the browsers.LSOs are containers where Flash applications can store various pieces of informa... |
5 May 2011
13:32 GMT |
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Browser toolbars aren't the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Google, but the company has one of those too and it has just updated the Internet Explorer version. Google Toolbar 7 for IE comes with several big new features, the highlight being the new Toolbar Instant search. There are other im... |
20 April 2011
13:11 GMT |
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Users that already made the jump to the latest iteration of Internet Explorer will not need to deploy any IE-specific patches this month. According to Microsoft, this month’s Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer does not apply to Internet Explorer 9. [ARMARK=1] IE9 was released to web less than a m... |
13 April 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Microsoft is now offering details on the upcoming Springboard Series Tour scheduled to start this May, living up to the promise it made in March of this year. Essentially, the Redmond company published the tour stops, namely the six cities that will be visited ahead of Atlanta for TechEd US. According to the softwar... |
8 April 2011
07:10 GMT |
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It is well known that no matter how much software developers strive to offer the best version of a product there will always be some nitpicker expecting a different configuration. Internet Explorer 9 just launched on Monday but tweaking solutions for the application have been around for a long time. TweakIE9 is not ... |
18 March 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Two years. That’s how long it took Microsoft to move from version 8 of Internet Explorer to a new edition. The ninth version of the web browser passed through 8 Platform previews, one beta and a Release Candidate to reach end users’ computers as a final release. Given the amount of attention it received ... |
15 March 2011
17:27 GMT |
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Ten years after it came into service, Internet Explorer 6 is still used by a lot more people than it should at this point. There have been several efforts to determine those still using it to upgrade and now even Microsoft is joining the 'fight.'The giant has launched ie6countdown.com which aims to track us... |
7 March 2011
02:40 GMT |
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With Microsoft putting the finishing touches on Internet Explorer 9, the overall usage share of Internet Explorer increased after half a year of decline.Internet metrics company Net Applications share fresh statistics of the browser market on March 1st, 2011, indicating that IE’s share jumped by no less than 0... |
1 March 2011
09:19 GMT |
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With both Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 getting close to a stable release, it seems like the battle is heating up. With the IE9 release candidate just out, Mozilla is taking Microsoft to task about some of its claims and, what it believes to be, misleading marketing. Mozilla evangelist Paul Rouget asks the simple... |
16 February 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Nothing spectacular happened in the browser market in January, apart from a big milestone for Chrome and a (negative) record for Internet Explorer. Google's browser broke through the 10 percent mark for the first time, according to Net Applications numbers. Meanwhile, IE saw its lowest market share number since ... |
2 February 2011
06:49 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 8 continues to increase its dominance on the browser market worldwide, as Internet Explorer 9 is cooking in Redmond. The latest statistics made public by Microsoft indicate that IE8 has enjoyed strong growth over the first month of 2011. Data from Internet metrics company Net Applications reveals ... |
1 February 2011
06:16 GMT |
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Microsoft is investigating reports of a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability being exploited in the wild and has released a workaround for customers to protect themselves until a permanent patch is ready.The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2010-3971, was originally reported on the Full Disclosure mailing list on... |
12 January 2011
07:34 GMT |
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Building a new graphical user interface for the Tablet PC flavor of Internet Explorer should be on Microsoft’s mind.
This became obvious today as Opera Software delivered a sneak peek at Opera for Tablets, and announced that a preview will be introduced at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show w... |
4 January 2011
11:07 GMT |
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Google Chrome is making most of the waves in the browser market lately, but it seems like Firefox also has something to celebrate in the new year, according to data from StatCounter, it is now the most popular browser across all of Europe, surpassing Internet Explorer in aggregate market share.Firefox has long been o... |
4 January 2011
06:42 GMT |
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Microsoft confirmed to Softpedia that it is investigating reports of a zero-day vulnerability impacting Internet Explorer. The issue has been detected using cross_fuzz, a browser fuzzing tool released by Google Researcher Michal Zalewski on January 1st, 20120. Jerry Bryant, group manager, response communications, T... |
3 January 2011
05:40 GMT |
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2011 is already shaping up to be a busy year for Microsoft from a security standpoint, as a reputed researcher warns that Internet Explorer might be suffering from a critical vulnerability already known to third parties.On January 1, Michal Zalewski aka "lcamtuf," a well known browser security researcher who currentl... |
3 January 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Microsoft has confirmed a zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Internet Explorer, including IE8, IE7 and IE6. The Redmond company explains that the security flaw involves the creation of uninitialized memory during a CSS function within the browser. “It is possible under certain condition... |
23 December 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Exploit code for an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer has been added to the popular Metasploit open source penetration testing framework.The flaw was originally reported as a denial of service condition on the Full Disclosure mailing list on December 8.However, vulnerability research ... |
22 December 2010
12:18 GMT |
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Microsoft has patched no less than seven security vulnerabilities affecting various releases of Internet Explorer with the delivery of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-090 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer. According to the Redmond company, while four of the security flaws were privately reported, the ... |
15 December 2010
04:39 GMT |
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A Critical zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Internet Explorer will be patched on December 14th, 2010, as a part of the Microsoft’s monthly patch release cycle. The 0-day flaw impacting IE6, IE7 and IE8 has been exploited in the wild since November when the first details and proof-of-c... |
10 December 2010
06:52 GMT |
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Internet Explorer has certainly come a long way, with the browser packing an awful lot of history which is stretching across 15 years. A new Knowledge Base article from Microsoft (KB969393) does a very nice job of putting IE’s legacy into perspective, albeit only release version-wise. New versions of IE accomp... |
29 November 2010
10:54 GMT |
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A report from a company called Bit9, which counted the number of high-risk vulnerabilities reported in popular software, was misinterpreted by many to show that some applications, like Internet Explorer, are more secure than competing products.Bit9 claims that its "Dirty Dozen" apps list is meant to raise awareness t... |
18 November 2010
04:31 GMT |
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Application developers interested in bringing a mobile browser to the newly launched Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system can easily do so, as long as the solution is based on Microsoft's Internet Explorer, it seems. One such solution was already made available in the Windows Phone Marketplace, dubbed Browse... |
17 November 2010
06:56 GMT |
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Security researchers feel that Microsoft should release an out-of-band patch to address an actively exploited Internet Explorer vulnerability, after an exploit for it has been added to the Eleonore drive-by download toolkit.The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2010-3962, was discovered in the wild at the beginning o... |
17 November 2010
04:50 GMT |
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There are several good reasons why you should always be running the latest stable version of which every browser you prefer. Not only are you making the life of webmasters and web developers everywhere easier, you're also better protected against any number of threats on the web.Unfortunately, updating their bro... |
6 November 2010
06:40 GMT |
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Security researchers from FireEye have identified a new attack targeting the recently disclosed Internet Explorer vulnerability, which employs a more reliable exploit and distributes a different backdoor.This past Tuesday, Microsoft confirmed the existence of an yet unpatched critical remote code execution vulnerabil... |
5 November 2010
14:27 GMT |
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Microsoft is prepping three security bulletins for next Tuesday, that cover vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Forefront Unified Access Gateway, but don't address the recently reported zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability.Two bulletins, one of which is rated critical, contain patches for remote code exe... |
5 November 2010
11:55 GMT |
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Microsoft has moved extremely fast after public reports of a new Critical zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer emerged, and the company is already offering multiple fixes for the security flaw. On November 2nd, 2010 Microsoft confirmed a security hole impacting Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7 ... |
4 November 2010
05:48 GMT |
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Symantec warns that a 0-day vulnerability, affecting stable versions of Internet Explorer, is being exploited in a sophisticated attack, which targets key people in various organizations.The attack begins with fake emails posing as hotel reservation notifications. "About the hotel room, please take the attached list ... |
4 November 2010
05:33 GMT |
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The browser market has been fairly static recently, at least in terms of trends. The only browser that is seeing some movement, in either direction, is Google Chrome, while Internet Explorer, Firefox and the other popular browsers are largely static relative to their market share.Chrome added another half a percentag... |
1 November 2010
11:50 GMT |
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No, Internet Explorer did not lose 10% market share in just a few days. Since the start of October reports have placed IE at either just under 60% (Net Applications) of the browser market, or lower than 50% (StatCounter).They both can’t be right, can they? Well, fact is that no, and the difference can be easil... |
6 October 2010
11:16 GMT |
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StatCounter has released its data on browser usage in September. The trends are generally the same, but the company underlines that this is the first time that IE has fallen below the 50 percent mark. Also notable is the rise of Google Chrome which has more than three times the market share it had last year in Septem... |
6 October 2010
03:44 GMT |
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September proved much of the same in the browser market as the top three browsers continued their trend, either upwards or downwards. The launch of the Internet Explorer 9 Beta didn't do much for the overall share of IE which slid below 60 percent. Meanwhile, Google Chrome snatched another half a percent and Fir... |
4 October 2010
05:25 GMT |
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The Google Chrome Frame went stable with the release of Chrome Frame 6.0.472.63. The browser plugin which inserts the Chrome rendering engine into legacy browsers to enable them to benefit from the latest web technologies is now considered stable enough for wide distribution. "Today, we’re very happy to take th... |
23 September 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Chris Wilson, the man who once was the IE Platform Architect at Microsoft and has been working for the company for the last 15 years, announced that he will be joining Google in November.Wilson said he is taking a month off and then will be joining Google as a Developer Advocate, working out of Google’s Fremont... |
23 September 2010
04:28 GMT |
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New web standards push web browsers to farther limits - and the limits have been stretched this year more than ever. Faster browsing and better content rendering is what the regular user wants from a web navigation tool.The general trend in the most popular web browsers is support for hardware acceleration, as well a... |
18 September 2010
06:51 GMT |
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The web has been filled with excitement about the launch of the Internet Explorer 9 Beta, the first IE9 release to feature a user interface. There's plenty to like about the new IE9, both technically and from an usability stand point. But whatever you think of it, innovative as many, many have called it, it is n... |
16 September 2010
16:39 GMT |
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Internet Explorer 9 has been released and all the excitement of the day has finally toned down a notch or two. The interface of the new Internet Explorer has been stripped as much as possible of buttons and toolbars in order to offer an environment that puts the focus on the webpage and makes of the web bro... |
15 September 2010
21:01 GMT |
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The browser market seems to have steered back on course in August. After a rather curious July, which saw Internet Explorer gain market share and Chrome lose users, IE is back on its downwards trend and Chrome is picking up steam again.Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to dominate, by pretty much the same ... |
2 September 2010
09:42 GMT |
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