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US Politics News Reader
Downloads US Politics News Reader features include pre-loaded blogs, search for new blogs via keyword, add blog via URL, read blogs offline, checks for new blog posts when you launch, delete, move, or add blogs, email blog post links to your friends, view...
[September 2, 2009, 10:35]
Mozilla answers Wave with Raindrop
News Firefox, Chrome and Safari users will be able to use Raindrop, but not Internet Explorer users. Raindrop will eventually aggregate messages received via communications including email, Twitter, instant messaging, Skype, Facebook, and Google Docs...
[October 23, 2009, 16:49]
Thurly
Downloads Thurly is a plug-in for Safari that allows you to both shorten URLs in a snap as well as post directly to Twitter without ever leaving your browser window. Fixed bug which caused Safari to crash for a very limited group of users during its first...
[September 10, 2009, 14:42]
Firefox chief fumes over Apple Safari update
News Mozilla chief executive John Lilly has hit out at Apple, accusing the company of doing a disservice to Windows users everywhere by including its Safari browser as a default add-on installation in the latest iTunes update, likening the practice to...
[March 25, 2008, 7:16]
Researchers warn of 'clickjacking' threat
News While the concepts associated with clickjacking are not new, the two researchers said the specific vulnerabilities they discovered affect an unusually broad range of software, namely Adobe Flash Player along with widely used browsers such as...
[October 9, 2008, 13:22]
Apple dismisses Safari vulnerability claims
News In a blog post titled Safari Carpet Bomb, Nitesh Dhanjani describes how a rogue website can easily download resources to the Windows desktop or downloads directory on the Mac. Safari users risk littering their desktops with malicious software...
[May 16, 2008, 8:49]
Unpatched Safari bug exposes sensitive info
News Apple's Safari browser on Windows and Mac OS X is vulnerable to a bug that could allow a malicious website to read files on the user's hard drive, according to a security researcher. The flaw is related to the way Safari handles web feeds such as...
[January 14, 2009, 14:57]
Google Gears gives laptops a location fix
News Gears is an extension that augments the ability of Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Apple Safari. Because the geo-location API is the same for developers in both desktop and mobile browsers, you can even use the same code on...
[October 22, 2008, 11:38]
Mac OS X vulnerable to critical Java bug
News Java is enabled by default in Mac OS X browsers such as Firefox and Safari, and Tinnes said he had successfully exploited the Java bug on both browsers. The flaw affects a number of platforms running Java, and has been patched by most other...
[May 20, 2009, 17:15]
Firefox moves closer to 3D web graphics
News Also this month, programmers began building WebGL into WebKit, the project that is used in both Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. All of these implementations are going to have some interoperability issues for the next little while, as the spec...
[September 22, 2009, 8:33]
Mozilla: Next Firefox release months away
News The browser wars are in full force, with Microsoft on the cusp of releasing the new Internet Explorer 8, Apple offering a beta of Safari 4, Opera trying to offer faster downloads and faster JavaScript in its product, and Google offering Chrome.
[March 17, 2009, 7:41]
Finjan finds botnet of 1.9m infected computers
News Seventy-eight percent of the infected Windows XP computers are running Internet Explorer, 15 percent are using Firefox, three percent are using Opera, and one percent Safari, Finjan said. The Trojan installs malicious executables that perform...
[April 22, 2009, 14:39]
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]
Google debuts Chrome for Mac, Linux
News Mozilla is on the cusp of releasing Firefox 3.5, as is Apple with Safari 4 for both Windows and Mac OS X. Firefox has 22.5 percent, Safari 8.4, and Chrome has edged up to 1.8 percent since its launch in September.
[June 5, 2009, 9:17]
Snow Leopard may contain antivirus
Blog The company published a screenshot which it said was of the security feature detecting a Trojan in a download, made via Apple's Safari web browser. Mac security firm Intego said that the latest version of Snow Leopard would have an antimalware...
[August 26, 2009, 11:58]
Adobe addresses Flash Player 'clickjacking' flaw
News Clickjacking attacks take advantage of vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier, as well as vulnerabilities in browsers such as Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Safari. Flash Player 10 addresses Flash Player-specific aspects...
[October 16, 2008, 12:53]
Chrome takes new tack for faster JavaScript
News That eased compatibility issues by making Chrome behave like the much more mature and tested Safari browser from Apple, also based on Webkit. We felt it should be possible to improve performance by integrating with our existing infrastructure...
[February 6, 2009, 16:20]
Mozilla's Fennec heads to Symbian
News Fennec will compete against existing mobile browsers, including Apple's Safari Mobile, Google's Chrome Lite, Opera Mobile and Skyfire. In order for Mozilla to be relevant in the smartphone space, we need to have a presence on the Symbian platform...
[December 17, 2008, 14:03]
Mozilla shifts code development to the cloud
News The developers said they have tested Bespin on Firefox 3 and WebKit Nightly, a test version of the open-source framework underlying Apple's Safari browser. As a challenge, we wanted to take on an interesting project that you would normally think of...
[February 16, 2009, 15:48]
Apple fixes months-old Java bug
News Java is enabled by default in Mac OS X browsers such as Firefox and Safari, and Tinnes said he had successfully exploited the Java bug on both browsers. Unfortunately, it is still not patched in [Apple's] latest security update from just a few days...
[June 16, 2009, 15:10]
