Browsers

Mozilla defers Firefox’s new ‘Australis’ UI to April

Google dismisses eavesdropping threat in Chrome feature

Chrome can continue to access a computer's microphone after a person thinks a speech recognition feature is off, a web developer says

Spammers buy Chrome extensions and turn them into adware

Two developers who sold their popular Chrome extensions saw them misused for aggressive advertising

Geek-themed Meme of the Week: Too Many Tabs Edition

This one hits close to home

10 reasons the browser is becoming the universal OS

Microsoft books critical IE, Windows fixes for next week

Schedules 8 updates, but won't patch the latest zero-day bug

What Google killing IE9 support means for software development

Google's announcement that it won't support Internet Explorer 9 is a sign of a broader move toward rapid iteration in software development.

Mozilla releases 10 patches, five critical, for Firefox

The issues also affect the Thunderbird email client and Seamonkey software suite

Flash Player now sandboxed under Safari on Mac OS X

The Flash Player plug-in has more restrictions and better security under Safari on Mac OS X Mavericks

Beyond Caching: Google engineers reveal secrets to faster Web sites

Better JavaScript memory management and HTML prefetching tags could make Web sites more responsive