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| Internet Explorer Killed Firefox and Safari |  | Firefox and Safari are no match for Internet Explorer. When it comes down to audience and installed base, Microsoft's Internet Explorer far outweighs its direct rivals Mozilla Firefox and Apple's Safari. Mozilla was at a turning point the past two months. It killed support for Firefox 1.5 and it introduced automatic upgrades to Firefox 2.0. But the last update for Firefox 1.5 with the build number 1.5.0.12 and the Firefox 2.0.0.4 ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2007, 08:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Flash Will Be Replaced by a Native Video Capability in Opera |  | The Opera Software officials confirmed that the Adobe Flash plug-in for the mobile browser will be replaced by a native video capability. Therefore, the users will be able to use video, text and javascript and "directly execute video inside of the Web" as Tatsuki Tomita, senior vice-president for consumer products at Opera Software, said, as cited by ... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2007, 08:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Microsoft's Internet Identity Technology Gets Certified |  | The backbone of an Internet identity system is, in Microsoft's vision, composed of Extended Validation SSL Certificates intimately integrated with the users’ browsing experience. In this context, the Redmond Company has already ensured that Internet Explorer 7 supports the new Extended Validation SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificates, designed to deliver users with a guarantee of the legitimacy of websites.
As attacks techniques ... [read more >>] | | 13 June 2007, 05:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple's Safari is Zero in the Shadows of Internet Explorer and Firefox |  | Safari is not a newcomer when it comes to the browser market. As a matter of fact Safari is an established presence thanks to the bundle with the Mac operating systems. Back in 2003, the intimate connection between Safari and Mac OS have convinced Microsoft to stop all development efforts that the Redmond Company made into Internet Explorer 5 for Mac, and subsequently to drop support altogether. Now, with Safari 3 public beta, Ap ... [read more >>] | | 12 June 2007, 11:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The New Palm Foleo Mobile Companion Comes with the Opera Browser |  | Opera Software announced that the newly announced Palm Foleo mobile companion will use Opera as the default Internet browser. Opera for Palm Foleo is based on Opera 9 and offers advanced navigation features and support for Web 2.0 applications using Ajax (Asynchronous Jav ... [read more >>] | | 31 May 2007, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Buggy Opera Torrent Client Strikes Again! |  | The Opera browser is now the subject of a security advisory after the security company Secunia discovered a highly critical flaw in its torrent client. According to the alert, the vulnerability can allow an attacker to compromise an affected system and obtain higher privileges to conduct additional attacks. It seems like the flaw exists only in the versions launched before 9.21 for Windows so the solution is to update your browser to this ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Over 64% of Users Prefer Firefox to Internet Explorer |  | Which browser is better? Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer, Netscape? Usually, when it comes down to comparing browsers, the five names mentioned above come into play. And although Internet Explorer dominates the browser market, the solutions that have developed in its shadow enjoy far more popularity when compared to the Microsoft product.
According to an ongoing online survey performed by SurveyWare by Net Aplications, no les ... [read more >>] | | 15 May 2007, 06:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IE7 vs Firefox 2.0 vs Opera 9.20 |  | Looking for a better, free browser has been restricted for many years. The market did not offer too many choices and Internet Explorer was by far the easiest way to go. However, its mischiefs soon echoed on our computers and we were compelled to strap it with a myriad of applications designed to reject the nasties and alert us upon intrusion.
After year 2000, the viable alternatives for the average user were either the faulty Internet E ... [read more >>] | | 11 May 2007, 11:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Opera's Past |  | Up until recently, there was no dispute concerning the used web browser. Everybody was using what came with the package. The conclusion is easy to draw as Microsoft had the largest market share in the pocket so any product released with Windows urgently gained huge percentage in the market share. And yet the Microsoft solution was not so great regarding Web surfing. IE's vulnerabilities were soon discovered and exploited by the smart ... [read more >>] | | 11 May 2007, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Opera Mini Is the Most Popular Web Browser |  | More than a year has passed since the official launch of Opera Mini. During this time, the Java ME web browser has gained considerable popularity among users as to become the most popular such application at the moment.
Opera Mini has been used until now by more than 15 million people, which resulted in its becoming the most popular downloadable Java software. "We wrote Opera Mini in Java technology so that we could bring ... [read more >>] | | 11 May 2007, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Opera Not Supported by Google? Install This Patch! |  | Google owns a huge number of services, most of them used by clients from all over the world. Every Internet users has his own favorite programs, choosing to use Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera as the default browser. Because most of the Google products are accessible through an online interface, the browser's compatibility is very important as it can influence the results provided by the product. Now, some of the Google ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2007, 15:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Opera Browser Can’t Handle The Flash Files |  | Opera is one of the most popular browsers on the Internet but the impressive number of bugs discovered in the application can lead to some very disappointed users looking for an alternative. Today, the vulnerability mania continued with another bug concerning the flash files and the way Opera handles them. Today, while I was browsing the web, I noticed that Opera displayed some quite weird sites, the content being a little messed ... [read more >>] | | 12 April 2007, 10:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fast Forward On Browsing |  | October 18th and October 24th are two of the dates sentenced not to be forgotten too easily in software world. First it was IE7. Firefox followed shortly with launching their latest versions. In my office everybody was asking about Opera. Has the project stopped? Our MAC and Linux teams warned me that the new release of Opera will be introducing new elements competition will wish to have thought about them first.
It took longer then I e ... [read more >>] | | 12 April 2007, 09:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| And the Best Mac OSX Browser Is… |  | Nowadays, numerous companies are fighting for the most powerful browser title but it seems the leaders are still the classic ones. Macworld published an interesting research, sustaining the most secure Mac OSX browser of 2006 is Safari. The company said Firefox was affected by 26 percent fewer security flaws than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, the browser included in the well known Windows operating system.
It seems like Internet Explor ... [read more >>] | | 21 March 2007, 10:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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