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That Damn PC

Archive for the ‘Browsers’ Category

May 25th, 2008

Mozilla: Newest Firefox Beta has Critical Flaws

Don’t be in a rush to get the new Firefox 3.0 as Mozilla themselves disclosed that the software still has critical flaws:
Mozilla has identified 10 high-priority bugs in Firefox 3.0, three of them pegged “critical,” but won’t decide until next week whether to release the browser anyway or restart the final stretch by issuing a […]

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May 11th, 2008

XP SP3 requires IE7, Microsoft Warns

Microsoft has warned users that the Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) update will be making a downgrade from Internet Explorer 7 to the older IE6 impossible without uninstalling the service pack.
The warning first appeared in a post Monday to a company blog written by the Internet Explorer (IE) development team. Microsoft released Windows XP […]

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April 19th, 2008

Remove Safari annoyance in Quicktime

Apple finally relented and has issued an update that basically separates “real” application updates with other bundled software such as Itunes and Safari. Apple made a stir recently when its Apple Software updates started to bundle in the Safari Installation as well.
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April 14th, 2008

Current browser wars: which one is the best?

Back when the earliest programs for viewing Web-based content displayed simple images and text, the name browser truly fit the software. But yesterday’s amateur pages have evolved into dynamic, content-rich portals and powerful online applications. For many online habitués, the do-it-all browser has become probably the PC’s single most important app.
Recognizing that fact, Apple’s Safari, […]

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April 12th, 2008

Install multiple versions of IE on your PC

Ever wanted to test your website in various versions of Internet Explorer? The regular internet surfer would probably say “uhh Why?” but to web developers, this is an important way to test how your pages “degrade” in older browsers.
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March 7th, 2008

Internet Explorer 8 Beta

After leaving Internet Explorer 6 moribund for way too long, Microsoft is trying to stay ahead of the curve. The IE 8 beta looks nearly identical to its predecessor, but internally it handles page rendering differently, with support for CSS 2.1 and HTML 4.01. Thank god, we are finally getting stricter standards support.
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March 7th, 2008

Dont use Safari, Paypal users

If you’re using Apple’s Safari browser, PayPal has some advice for you: Dont Use it, at least if you want to avoid online fraud. Safari doesn’t make PayPal’s list of recommended browsers because it doesn’t have two important anti-phishing security features, according to Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer.
“Apple, unfortunately, is lagging behind what […]

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February 16th, 2008

Google warns about “drive-by downloads”

The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google. The search engine giant trained its Web crawling software on billions of Web addresses over the past year looking for malicious pages that tried to attack their visitors. They found more than 3 million of them, meaning that about one […]

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February 14th, 2008

Mozilla releases Firefox 3 Beta 3

Mozilla Corp. released the third beta of Firefox 3 Wednesday, eight weeks after it made the last major milestone for its open-source browser, and right on a schedule it set a dozen days ago.
Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s interface designer, touted additions and enhancements to Beta 3 in a post to the company’s Web site Tuesday, touting […]

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February 1st, 2008

Mozilla Ups Firefox Bug Threat, promises Fix on Feb. 5

Mozilla Corp. has bumped up the threat ranking for an unpatched Firefox bug to “high” Tuesday, but promised a fix is coming in Version 2.0.0.12, now slated for release on Feb. 5. The company’s head of security, Window Snyder, confirmed that the browser, when running any of more than 600 add-ons, can be exploited to […]

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