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BREAKING: Chrome Just Became the Web’s #1 Browser (Unless It Didn’t)
Ridiculous Drama: Microsoft Internet Explorer vs. Google
Microsoft — long relegated to the uncool corner of the tech world by popular kids Google and Facebook — is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. First, it released an ad campaign in the wake of Google’s controversial …
Google’s Safari Privacy Snafu: Just Not Feeling the Outrage
I’m probably supposed to be mortified by Google’s latest privacy blunder. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google found a loophole in Apple’s Safari browser — both on desktops and iOS devices — that allowed the search …
Who’s the Fastest Browser of Them All? Firefox 9 for Windows 7, Safari 5 for OS X Lion
Every so often, Tom’s Hardware runs what it calls a “Web Browser Grand Prix,” putting the latest browsers through a battery of grueling benchmarks. The last throwdown took place in August, and was notable for its inclusion of a …
Two Minute Video: The Ultimate iPad Twitter Trick
Here’s how to use a Twitter bookmarklet with the iPad’s Safari web browser. It’s a cool trick that’ll let you quickly and easily tweet an interesting web page out to your followers directly from the browser—no need to try to hunt down a “Tweet This” button or mess around with copying and pasting the page’s link from the address …
Phony ‘Mac Defender’ Malware Does Anything But
Think you’re safe from malware if your ride’s a Mac? Think again!
Or you know, keep on thinking, because this one looks like another wannabe troublemaker–the latest in a lengthy lineup of not-quite-viral might-have-beens. Not that you shouldn’t take it seriously, of course, because security firm Intego is.
The malware, …
Google Adds Connection Bar For iPhones
For those of us who’ve had the frustrating experience of trying to use Gmail on iPhone Safari, some small measure of relief is at hand: Google has introduced a connection bar that’ll let you know just how (un)successful your emailing attempts have been.
The connection bar launches when you launch Gmail in Safari, appearing at the …
Study: Android Smokes iPhone 4 Crunching Web Pages?
Everyone loves a smackdown, so how about one that proves whether Google’s Android or Apple’s iPhone is faster? And from a disinterested third-party researcher to boot?
Blaze Software says it ran a whopping 45,000 tests to prove whose browser was really king of the mobile mountain. The results: Android’s Chrome browser was an …
Pwn2Own Roundup: Apple Fails, Google Stays Strong
The hackers at last week’s Pwn2Own contest had a field day with some of the world’s most popular browsers, but they didn’t make a clean sweep.
Pwn2Own pits security experts against web browsers on laptops and smartphones. At stake are cash prizes of $15,000 per exploit, along with the actual hardware on which the browsers were hacked. …
Apple Updates Safari Web Browser, Adds Extensions
Safari 5 is now available to download for Mac and PC. Apple’s latest iteration of its web browser brings with it a few new features; most notably, extensions. There’s also a new feature called Safari Reader, which pops news articles open in their own overlay while darkening the background of the rest of the page (see the image
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JavaScript Showdown: Android 2.2 vs iOS4
The gents at Ars did a little JavaScript testing on Google’s Android 2.2 versus Apple’s iOS4 to see which platform had a speedier Web browser. Based on SunSpider and V8 benchmarks, Froyo blew the doors off iOS4 and Éclair. According to said benchmark tests, Froyo is nearly three times faster than Éclair and three times better …