Browsers

Google to pay users to track their movements online

Google quietly launches a program to pay volunteers up to $25 to share their browser activity with the company

Google ships Chrome 17, touts more malware alerts and page pre-loads

Patches 20 vulnerabilities, pays $10,500 in bounties to four bug hunters

Adobe confirms no Flash for Chrome on Android

Follows move last year to abandon Flash Player in mobile

Google Chrome will no longer check for revoked SSL certificates online

Google has decided to drop OCSP revocation checks from Chrome because they are inefficient and slow

Google accelerates Android browser updates with mobile Chrome

Long-term plan, says Google, is to make Chrome the standard browser on Android

Adobe sets IE as next target in Flash security work

Releases beta of sandboxed Flash Player plug-in for Firefox, on to Microsoft's browser

Something fishy about Google Chrome’s Safe Browsing API, lab says

Chrome comes to Android, but only for the 1 percent

A beta version of Chrome for Android is available to people running Ice Cream Sandwich

Adobe launches sandboxed Flash Player for Firefox, hopes for fewer exploits

Adobe has launched a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox that uses sandboxing technology to prevent exploits

Microsoft wraps up ads aimed at Google with IE9 pitch

'We had some fun this week,' says Microsoft's chief marketing exec