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Flaw exposes Chrome, Firefox to clickjacking
News But, like Chrome, Firefox 3.0.5 was exposed. Security researchers have discovered a flaw affecting Google's Chrome browser that exposes it to clickjacking — where an attacker hijacks a browser's functions by substituting a legitimate link with a...
[January 29, 2009, 7:43]
Third Chrome beta steps up browser's speed
News On the SunSpider JavaScript peformance test, the new Google Chrome beta edges closer to TraceMonkey-enhanced Firefox. The new Chrome score was closer to the 2,250 millisecond score of Firefox 3.1 beta 1 with its new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine...
[November 3, 2008, 17:25]
Chrome is simple, but I want features!
Blog Chrome is still my default browser, and there are everyday things I can't do so easily in it as in Firefox. I think what I want is a Google Toolbar for Chrome. I'm still finding how to use Chrome best, of course.
[September 5, 2008, 12:03]
Google plans Chrome extensions
News Even though Microsoft caught up with Internet Explorer, Firefox still has an extension edge over Google's Chrome web browser. We don't have that in the beta today, but we definitely plan an extension API [application programming interface]," Sundar...
[September 4, 2008, 10:32]
Google Chrome: Highlights of the beta browser
News Chrome rethinks a lot of traditional browser architecture, borrowing from Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and even Opera. Like Firefox 3 and Microsoft IE8 Beta 2, Chrome autocompletes URLs you type based, in part, on...
[September 3, 2008, 12:21]
Mozilla releases second alpha of Firefox 3.1
News Mozilla has released an advance testing version of its popular Firefox web browser, just days after Google revealed its competing Chrome software. The new software also adds some speed enhancements to the browser, particularly in the area of...
[September 8, 2008, 8:59]
Google Chrome heats up browser wars
News Google Chrome is a warning shot over the bows of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Finally, although Chrome on first impressions is bad news for Firefox, there's a subtler reality at play: IE is the dominant browser, and the greater the...
[September 3, 2008, 11:50]
Yahoo's Delicious is added to Chrome
News In an effort to ease programming difficulties, Chrome's extensions technology uses the same interface techniques as web pages, a method Mozilla has adopted for its Jetpack Firefox extensions project at Mozilla Labs.
[July 2, 2009, 9:56]
Chrome? What's chrome about it?
Blog Another item I find annoying is that the Chrome URL/Search window doesn't operate like the FireFox Awesome bar. I am not a fan of the Google Desktop Search program but its pretty obvious that is a smart thing to look at integrating into Chrome.
[September 19, 2008, 6:57]
Will new browsers really upgrade the web?
News Mozilla is exhorting users to 'upgrade the Web' with Firefox 3.5, and variations on this better browsing theme can be found with Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari and Opera. But in video, Mozilla has built-in support for Ogg Theora, while Safari and...
[June 18, 2009, 12:59]
Why Chrome doesn't dazzle Mozilla's chairman
News There are other browser alternatives — Opera and Safari, for example — but Chrome is likely to catch on with the same techno-savvy, early-adopter, Google-proficient crowd that's been so passionate about Firefox.
[November 20, 2008, 15:01]
Google issues developer-orientated Chrome update
News Chrome can use the Mozilla Firefox versions of plug-ins such as Adobe's Flash. Google released a developer-orientated update to its Chrome web browser on Wednesday that fixes some crashes and video-playback issues.
[October 16, 2008, 8:45]
Industry welcomes Chrome as 'business as usual'
News Mozilla understands the increased competitive pressure that the launch of Chrome places on its Firefox browser very well, according to a blog post by chief executive John Lilly. Computer industry executives have broadly welcomed Google's new...
[September 2, 2008, 15:59]
How JavaScript became a browser-war battleground
News IE won that war, but now it faces its own challenge from the heir to the Navigator throne, Mozilla's Firefox, along with upstarts including Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari and Opera. All the challengers tout JavaScript performance as a major part...
[March 23, 2009, 14:46]
How to block adverts in Chrome!
Blog Obviously, I wouldn't suggest readers abstain from the display adverts that pay for the whole ZDNet enterprise, but help is at hand for those who use Adblock in Firefox, and want something similar in Chrome.
[September 3, 2008, 18:12]
Google reveals Chrome customisation plan
News Extensions are a popular feature of Chrome's most likely rival, Mozilla's Firefox, and one very popular extension is AdBlock Plus. When Chrome supports AdBlock, it will be the winner, but until it does, Firefox is the only choice.
[December 2, 2008, 8:19]
My Chrome honeymoon is over...
Blog Searching for Images and News, and searching within a given site, are much more fiddly in the Chrome Omnibox than in a Google Toolbar like the one on Firefox. PDFs in the browser kill Chrome - that's no surprise; they kill Firefox too, on my PC.
[September 8, 2008, 16:03]
Beta release moves a step closer to Firefox 3.5
News Firefox is vying with Apple's Safari 4 beta and Google's Chrome for the best JavaScript performance, a factor that is important for the new generation of sophisticated websites such as Google Docs and or Facebook applications.
[March 13, 2009, 7:29]
Mozilla welcomes competition from Google's Chrome
News The beta version of Chrome, to be available on Tuesday for Windows systems, is an obvious alternative to Firefox for those web surfers fed up with Microsoft's long-dominant Internet Explorer browser. Mozilla chief executive John Lilly on Tuesday...
[September 2, 2008, 9:53]
Yeeeaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!
Talkback With Firefox and Chrome both performing better than even Microsoft's latest browser, third or fourth place ought to wake up somebody at One Microsoft Way. If Google can maintain that sort of performance in their Chrome OS it will be the Windows...
[July 10, 2009, 9:28]
