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Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.6 will not be released this week as originally anticipated.  Instead, the new version of the web browser will be available on October 21.  This falls on the day before the release of the new Windows 7.  The update will include added support for the… Continue Reading »

RIM has issued a patch for a bug in its browser that could allow BlackBerry users to be hit by a phishing attack.  The bug involves the security feature that notifies a user if the website they are trying to visit has a certificate mismatch. The browser correctly identifies such… Continue Reading »

Microsoft gets a lot of flack for not following web standards in Internet Explorer.  In the past couple of years, MS has made an active move to become more standards compliant.  If you downloaded the latest version of Firefox, you may have seen the HTML5 video tag in action.  It… Continue Reading »

As expected, Opera 10 is available for download as of today, and while it may not be as popular as other browsers such as Firefox, or have the hype that tends to surround Chrome, it is worth checking out. A version is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux… Continue Reading »

Yesterday was a big day for Chrome in terms of being able to sync and backup your bookmarks.  We saw not one, but two methods for syncing and backing up your bookmarks get announced.  Unfortunately, at this time both options require the user to be running the latest dev build… Continue Reading »

Google released a new beta of their Chrome browser today posting a claimed 30% gain in speed as well as some new feature improvements.  One of the big additions is themes allowing the browser to more like Microsoft’s Bing search engine that has been moving up the search charts.  Bing… Continue Reading »

Bitstream, the developer behind the increasingly popular Bolt browser, conducted a study of college students in the US and concluded a good 45% of them do not access the internet on their phone.  Despite having phones that are likely capable, these students choose not to.  The 55% that do access… Continue Reading »

Apple released a statement today that their new web browser, Safari 4 has been downloaded by both Mac and Windows users over 11 million times in just three days of its full version release.  Additional, data released by Apple indicates that at least 6 million of these 11 million downloads… Continue Reading »

In a continuation of the anti-trust skirmishes that Microsoft is facing, it seems they have decided to lose the battle in hopes of still winning the war.  In a confidential memo leaked to Cnet News originally intended for PC makers, it is made clear that Windows 7 will in fact… Continue Reading »

The newest version of the Apple created web browser Safari is now out of beta and available to Windows and Mac users.  Apple has added about 150 features to Safari 4 with highlights that include a VoiceOver screen reader, zoom text, full page zooms, ARIA support, scriptable plug ins and… Continue Reading »