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Google Chrome: Beta Than Before
There’s no doubt about it, Google loves the beta phase of product development. For the uninitiated, a product is in beta when the provider offers users the chance to test it before its finalized. It...
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Internet Explorer 8 Goes Gold
Las Vegas is hosting yet another tech conference this week. This time it’s MIX09, a Web development conference hosted by Microsoft at the Venetian Hotel. Between thrashing fake guitar riffs in the Rock...
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Google and Apple: Too Close for Comfort
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is looking into whether the boards of directors at Google and Apple are violating antitrust laws. As it stands, the two companies share two directors. One of them is...
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There’s a Hole in My Firefox, Dear Liza
Yep. There’s a hole. Big hole. If you’re using Firefox 3.5, there’s a zero-day exploit in it that will let someone execute a so-called “drive-by” attack on your computer under certain circumstances,...
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Google Turns the Web into a Giant Wiki
I thought I felt a disturbance in the Force this morning. The source: Google. The search giant dropped an enormous bomb on me today: Sidewiki. Sidewiki is a browser tool — it plugs in to Firefox or...
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How Adobe Flash is ratting you out – it leaves behind a record of visited...
Are you looking at stuff on the web that you don’t want other people to know about? Modern browsers give you a way to protect yourself from embarrassment or discovery. For example, Google’s Chrome...
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Invention – Tab Candy for Firefox organizes life for people who browse a lot
As I look at my task bar, I notice that I have 120 Firefox Windows open. I use Firefox a lot, in other words, and to date Firefox has not really had any features to help people like me. Now there is a...
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Fun to watch – Firefox Downloads in real time – Plus a Firefox 4 preview
Yesterday we talked about the amazing number of downloads for Rebecca Black’s song. Is there anything more popular than that? The answer would be yes – Firefox version 4 downloads are happening at an...
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An update on yesterday’s Firefox 4 post – 10 million downloads in a day
To follow up on yesterday’s Firefox post… Firefox Downloads in real time – Plus a Firefox 4 preview …almost exactly 10 million copies of Firefox 4 were downloaded between 8AM yesterday and 8AM today....
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Does your Web browser say something about your intelligence?
A couple of days ago, a story made the rounds that a company called AptiQuant had conducted a study that found a correlation between intelligence of Web surfers and their browser of choice. Respectable...
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