If you use an iPad or an iPhone and you're at all technical you'll probably have a love-hate relationship with the default Safari browser. The problem is that Safari does the job but it just seems so, well, simplistic and lacks a certain desirable "nerdiness." You can do all sorts of cool stuff with other browsers on other operating systems, but Safari on iOS? Yawn. But I have an answer!
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Google in the News
What were they thinking when they hacked Safari?
Submitted by Kerrie Meyler on Fri, 02/24/12 - 2:28am.
Google, rightly or wrongly, has had its share of bumps in the news over the past week. It started Feb 17, when the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Google had bypassed Apple's Safari browser settings for guarding privacy. (For some strange reason, this never showed up in my local paper.) The default on many browsers is to allow this tracking, but Safari, used on all Apple devices including iPhones, blocks this tracking. Google got around that. Although, after being contacted by the WSJ, Google disabled its code. Read more
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Privacy spat: Microsoft vs. Google vs. the truth
Expert who helped write relevant privacy standard says they're both wrong
Submitted by Paul McNamara on Tue, 02/21/12 - 8:53am.
Hoping to fuel the controversy created news that Google sidesteps privacy controls within Apple's Safari Web browser, Microsoft over the holiday weekend accused Google of taking similar liberties with Internet Explorer, a charge Google doesn't actually deny but essentially calls frivolous because everybody does it.
And one expert, who played a role in creating the privacy standard at issue here, says they're all partially right ... but ultimately wrong. Read more
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In The Browser War Does The Tortoise Beat The Hare?
Longer release cycles may be good for operating systems, but not so much for browsers
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Is Chrome The Most Secure Browser Or Is Google Gaming The System?
A new study on browser security has raised a storm of contoversy
Submitted by Alan Shimel on Wed, 12/14/11 - 2:32pm.
Last July I wrote about a study by NSS Labs about which browser was most secure. Based on "socially engineered malware", NSS Labs concluded that Microsoft's IE was most secure. Read more
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Grazing: Better browsing under iOS
By Mark Gibbs on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 1:00am.
Chrome gains market share as IE drops nearly 2 percentage points
On the mobile front, Safari continues to dominate the mobile/tablet browser market
Submitted by Ann Bednarz on Wed, 11/02/11 - 6:43am.
It won't be long before Microsoft's share of the desktop browser market dips below 50%, if Internet Explorer continues to lose usage share at its current clip.
In the month of October, IE lost nearly two percentage points, falling to 52.63% of the desktop browser market from 54.39% in September, according to data from NetApplications.com. Read more
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Which Browser Is The Most Secure?
While open source is good, the answer may surprise you
Submitted by Alan Shimel on Wed, 07/20/11 - 6:23am.
My friends at NSS Labs have done some great work over the last few years in testing firewalls, IPS, anti-malware and even browsers. They just released their latest results on browser security against socially-engineered malware. The report is for the European market and is available for free download here. The report looked at almost all of the leading browsers including IE 8 and 9, Firefox 4, Chrome 10, Safari 5 and Opera 11. Read more
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Grandson Of Browser Wars: Open Source Is Not Enough
The latest sequel of browser wars has Firefox between a rock and a hard place
Submitted by Alan Shimel on Wed, 07/20/11 - 5:42am.
It seems for as long as there has been an Internet, there has been a browser war. Lynx, Mosaic, Netscape Navigator are names that conjure up browsing the web in a simpler time. I still remember well Microsoft coming out with IE and knocking the high flying Netscape off its perch. Many of us were thrilled when Mozilla Firefox rose from the ashes of AOL owned Netscape and became a hipper, cooler way of browsing. Read more
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Pwn2Own 2011: Hackers Shame Safari and IE8 on Day One
The big surprise is not that IE8 or Safari were shamed, it's that no one tried to topple Chrome and Google's offer to pay an additional $20,000 to the first hacker to crack that browser.
Submitted by Ms. Smith on Thu, 03/10/11 - 12:58pm.
Well it's March and time for the fifth annual Pwn2Own hacker challenge at CanSecWest security conference. The big surprise is not that IE8 or Safari were shamed on day one, it's that no one took on Chrome and Google's offer to pay an additional $20,000 to the first hacker to crack that browser. Read more
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Why Xmarks should go open source
Xmarks could live on
Submitted by Joe Brockmeier on Wed, 09/29/10 - 11:24am.
After four years of syncing bookmarks and other browser settings, Xmarks will be shutting its virtual doors at the end of the year. Before the lights are out and the servers go silent, the company should think about releasing its code under an open source license to preserve the Xmarks legacy. Read more
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Tool takes aim at ad attacks
ADJAIL tool helps prevent security problems with ad networks
Submitted by Layer 8 on Fri, 08/13/10 - 11:37am.
WASHINGTON, DC --Web advertisements are one of the more pesky ways malicious hackers have been using to steal all manner of private information or deliver other sorts of malware. One of the worst examples of this activity was last year's New York Times.com attack ad. Read more
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IPv6 Enabled Web Browsers
Know where you are going and with which IP version before you get there
Submitted by Scott Hogg on Sat, 07/24/10 - 1:22pm.
One way to get your browser to navigate to an IPv6-capable web site is to simply enter the IPv6 address of the web server into the browser's address bar. IETF RFC 2732, Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's, which is updated by IETF RFC 3986, Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax, defines the syntax that should be used when entering an IPv6 address directly. The format typically looks something like http://[2001:db8:100:200::1234]/. Read more
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Mozilla Is Cutting Off Their Nose To Spite Their Face By Not Supporting Windows Mobile 7
When you don't have a mobile OS of your own and those that do all have their own browsers, you can't afford to walk away from any opportunity
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Apple releases Safari 5 with faster JavaScript performance, 'Safari Reader', support for extensions, and a whole lot more.
Apple on Monday released Safari 5, the latest version of their homegrown web browser. The update promises a faster browsing experience, a new feature dubbed "Safari Reader", support for extensions, and a whole lot more.
Submitted by Yoni Heisler on Tue, 06/08/10 - 4:54pm.
A funny thing happened yesterday, and no, I'm not referring to the network problems that stifled portions of Steve Jobs' keynote yesterday. Early Monday evening, a press release hit the wire announcing the release of Safari 5, Apple's latest web browsing effort. That's all well and good, but users looking to download the update were out of luck - it was nowhere to be found. Some even theorized that Safari 5 was pulled late in the game, but that a press release was erroneously issued regardless. Read more
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Flash on Safari - Asking the Wrong Question
It's not a matter of why Apple won't support Flash - it's a question of why there is no alternative browser
Submitted by Craig Mathias on Mon, 04/05/10 - 4:30pm.
Personally, I'm not that impressed with Flash video to begin with. It's jerky on Firefox, and it's proprietary. Sure HTML 5 will replace it over time. But, if you want to view a Flash-enabled site with Safari, forget it. Apple, pretending to be Microsoft in this case, knows best. That's sad, but it's not the worst part. Read more
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Geekery, mind mapping and Chrome
By Mark Gibbs on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 1:00am.
This week I must first direct you to a classic bit of geek entertainment from the world of chemistry, a blog entry by Derek Lowe on Corante.com titled "Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride".
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RIM job posting confirms plan for new Webkit-based BlackBerry browser
The BlackBerry maker seems to be boosting investment to create a world-class browsing experience
Submitted by John Cox on Wed, 10/21/09 - 5:43pm.
[This is slightly modified version of a news story posted elsewhere on NetworkWorld.com]
RIM is expanding its effort to redefine the Web browsing experience for BlackBerry users. In a recent job posting on LinkedIn, RIM an expert C++ programmer firmly grounded in the open source Webkit browser engine. Read more
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CCNA Security Part 1: What's on the Test?
Who or What to Trust for the Scoop on a Cisco Exam
Submitted by wendell on Thu, 10/01/09 - 4:01pm.
I had this grand vision of a nice morning at the book store. Three books stacked on the table next to the easy chair, cup of coffee in hand. The books: The CCNA Security ECG (Exam Cert Guide), The Cisco Press CCNA Voice ECG, and the CCNA Wireless ECG. The goal: figure out what was on each exam, and then blog about it over the coming weeks. Read more
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Opera reclaims number 1 spot for mobile browsers...or not
Submitted by John Cox on Wed, 06/03/09 - 3:47pm.[This is a repost of a news story elsewhere on our site]
Opera regained a slight lead over Apple to become the most-used mobile browser in May, according to data from StatCounter. Or maybe not.
It all depends on what’s being counted. Read more
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Windows 7 Speeds Browser Performance
Submitted by Mitchell Ashley on Fri, 05/29/09 - 5:39pm.
It's a bit of a surprise but BetaNews.com is reporting their testing shows Windows 7 RC speeds up browser performance. IE specifically picks up the pace by about 12%. Why is happening? I don't think we know those details. I wonder if Microsoft might have revamped the TCP stack, and if so we should see a speed up in other network applications. Read more
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