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Jul 10

Major Flaw Found in Apple’s Safari Browser



Unfortunately, Apple didn’t appear to realize that it was necessary to screen what it allows to access this data. Security researchers revealed that a simple web form can grab much of this data - first name, last name, work place, city, state, and email address — no questions asked.

…security, as it is not possible to compare the vendors based on number of vulnerabilities alone. Apple’s supporters were quick to attack the report. AppleInsider writes:Not all vulnerabilities are equal: Secunia outlines five levels of criticality ranging from minor not critical issues to extremely critical problems that can result in remote exploits without any interaction from the user, and for which active exploits are already known to exist. Yet Secunia’s vulnerability report totals throw all these various types of flaws together into sums that are frequently used for meaningless comparison purposes.It’s ironic that almost simultaneous to the report another significant security flaw in Safari aired. Safari Apple’s browser software has oft seen releases so buggy to the point that they were unusable. Safari 5 certainly offered some improvements in that department, but it apparently doesn’t fair particularly better in the security department than past releases, including Safari 4 which had a flaw so severe…

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Jul 10

The 7 Coolest Wikipedia Plugins for Your Browser

Wikipedia is one of the foremost sources of information online and there is no limit to how the site can be used for both research and for contributing information. Check out these great browser plugins to make it more useful.

…Space will bring up a small search bar overlaying your current window.

QuickWiki’s additional features include support for English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese and the ability to adjust the appearance of the overlaying window. For an indepth review of QuickWiki, check out Saikat’s post.
Googlepedia
Googlepedia integrates Wikipedia search directly into Google dividing your search page into two columns. The first column contains the original google results, while in the second, the relevant Wikipedia article is displayed. Googlepedia does have its shortcomings. If you do a search directly from within Google, sometimes Googlepedia’s search results will not be displayed. On the other hand, if you do the search from Firefox’s inbuilt search bar at the top of the page the results are always displayed. Googlepedia is currently being ported to other browsers and is already available for Chrome.

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Chrome users will appreciate the Wikiepdia Companion which gives them easy access…

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Jul 10

Dell Streak review | TheTechJournal.com

The Dell Streak Android tablet is basically a really big smartphone.

…480-resoluton camera, as well as a 5-megapixel out-facing camera. You also get a proximity sensor and an ambient light sensor.
The Streak’s battery life may well be impressive, but what about its performance as a phone? Pretty good, we’d say last night we made a 25-minute call with the Streak held against our face the whole time, and our hand and arm were still alive after that. We also did our usual noise test and the Streak managed to suppress a fair amount of background noise, as you can see in the video above.

Well, here’s the meat. Like we said earlier, this final firmware performs much smoother and is more stable than what we have on our prototype. Dell’s also put on its own skin over the Android 1.6 OS homescreen icons are put in shaded boxes, the menu drops down from the top and can shrink to a favorites bar, and on the top bar you get a homescreen-switching button, notifications area, plus a status area, all of which can be triggered by just a tap instead of a drag action. Unlike most other Android…

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Jul 10

Firefox Home hands-on: Firefox on your iPhone… sorta

It’s no Mobile Firefox, but Mozilla’s iPhone app puts all your links and tabs at your fingertips if Firefox is your primary browser on the desktop.

…Unfortunately, browsing history is only available using the search. There’s room for another button on the app’s nav bar, so we’re hoping Mozilla adds a browsable list of your history in a future update we can imagine plenty of scenarios where this would be handy.

Though it should come as no surprise, Firefox Home doesn’t use Mozilla’s Gecko rendering engine or its TraceMonkey JavaScript engine. When you click on any link, it loads in a custom WebKit view with a simple but nice looking UI. While it doesn’t look particularly “Firefoxy,” it does fit right in on the iPhone. It also offers an option to copy or e-mail a link to the current open page or open it in Mobile Safari.

The only other caveat that we noticed which is due to Apple’s policy on apps that access the open Web is that Firefox Home is rated…

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Jul 10

Epic Browser: First Ever Web Browser with Anti-Virus

Epic browser is the first-ever web browser to feature a built-in anti-virus system. It is the first web browser from India, which is all set to target the Indian as well as global audience with its astonishing features; here’s an insight to the Epic Browser!

…Faster browsing and downloading is possible.

Epic Browser Reviews

There have been excellent reviews from users about the Epicbrowser within a day of its launch. If you have been using the Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Safari as your web browser, try giving it a desi change with the new Epicbrowser from India as a significance of your patriotism for the nation, if you happen to be an Indian. And even otherwise, you won’t be at loss by trying out the Epic browser powered by Mozilla Firefox!

Where Can You Download Epic Browser…

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Jul 10

Firefox on your iPhone?

Mozilla has just released Firefox Home for iOS, it’s not actually a bells and whistles browser; but it’s about as close as your going to get to the grown up desktop version on an Apple mobile device. The release of this app is certainly a step in the right direction from the open source giants, so what exactly is Firefox Home?

…but it’s about as close as your going to get to the grown up desktop version on an Apple mobile device. The release of this app is certainly a step in the right direction from the open source giants, so what exactly is Firefox Home?
Well er… not very much actually, it appears that due to the fact that Firefox is based on Mozilla and Apple only allows browsers based on the Webkit rendering engine to truly grace their iOS. Mozilla’s hands are pretty much tied leaving the best browser builders of the internet unable to actually build a ‘real’ web browser for platform. What you end up getting is an app that essentially is a one way bookmarking suite that remembers your desktop PC’s/MAC Firefox browser tabs, history and a few other tidbits.
Make sure you remember to sync your PC first though, oh yeah and don’t forget to download ‘Firefox Sync’ then install…restart… then sync then dare we say it… delete and just use Safari/Opera?
It really is a shame that Mozilla cannot get in on the mobile browser market…

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Jul 10

Google demos codeless Android development tool for students

Google has created a browser-based visual development tool that allows users to build Android applications without having to write a single line of code.

…Google has announced a new browser-based visual development tool called App Inventor that allows users to create Android applications without having to write any code. It appears to be aimed primarily at students.

App Inventor enables user interface design with a simple drag-and-drop layout system. The behavior of the user interface elements can be programmed via a visual development system that the user manipulates by organizing blocks with specific programming characteristics into various structures. The blocks can be dragged around and snapped into each other to form relatively sophisticated programs. This aspect of App Inventor is based on Scratch, an MIT visual programming language.

The compiler that translates the blocks into Android bytecode is built on top of the GNU Kawa framework, which provides a Scheme-based intermediate language. It’s worth noting that Kawa can also be used standalone to build entire Android applications with Scheme.

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Jul 10

User interface overhaul arrives in Firefox 4 beta

Mozilla has published the first Firefox 4 beta release. Ars takes a hands-on look at the browser’s new and improved user interface, finding a mixture of promise and awkwardness.

…design work is still ongoing for Mac OS X and Linux. The new Windows theme is intended to match Microsoft’s glass aesthetic. The tab bar was moved to the top of the window where it melds seamlessly with the titlebar. The conventional menu was stripped out and replaced with an orange lozenge that is mounted in the top left-hand corner of the titlebar. The entire title region and the inactive tabs are semi-transparent. The inactive tabs are slightly frosted for readability.

The new main menu leaves out a lot of the standard items that were previously accessible through the conventional menu bar. Many of the omitted items are still easy to reach through contextual menus and other parts of the user interface, but there are several features such as private browsing and the download window that are no longer easily discoverable. You can still use those features by turning back on the classic menu or hitting Alt to temporarily activate it. It’s likely that these features will be exposed in more practical ways as…

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Jul 10

Firefox is Now IBM’s Default Web Browser

A recent change to IBM’s internal IT policy has made Firefox the company’s default Web browser. The move is a major endorsement of the browser’s suitability in large-scale enterprise environments. IBM plans to roll it out to employees on new computers and will encourage its staff of 400,000 to use it on their existing systems.

…A recent change to IBM’s internal IT policy has made Firefox the company’s default Web browser. The move is a major endorsement of the browser’s suitability in large-scale enterprise environments. IBM plans to roll it out to employees on new computers and will encourage its staff of 400,000 to use it on their existing systems.

Bob Sutor, IBM’s vice president of Linux and open source software, discussed the company’s motives for adopting Firefox in a blog entry published this morning. He says that its transparent development model, strong security, and robust support for Web standards and extensibility have made it the “gold standard” for open source Web browsers.

Sutor contends that Mozilla’s efforts have “reinvigorated” the browser market, bringing standards and interoperability to the forefront. He believes that company-wide adoption of the browser will help accelerate IBM’s shift towards cloud computing.

“There’s another reason we want to get as many of our employees using Firefox as soon as possible,…

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Jun 10

Firefox 3.7 Wins Over IE9 in HTML5 Speed, Chrome Slowest!

Firefox 3.7 has proved to be faster than the Internet Explorer 9 browser in an HTML5 speed test conducted between four internet browsers that included Chrome and the Opera Browser as well. The test was conducted on all four browsers simultaneously on the Windows platform on the same computer with hardware acceleration turned on.

…Firefox 3.7 has proved to be faster than the Internet Explorer 9 browser in an HTML5 speed test conducted between four internet browsers that included Chrome and the Opera Browser as well. The test was conducted on all four browsers simultaneously on the Windows platform on the same computer with hardware acceleration turned on.

Firefox 3.7 was found to be faster than IE9 in the test, but only marginally so with just a 5 to 10 percent lead. The Opera browser performed well in the test, but was not able to sustain its speed. Chrome was the slowest browser in the test.
However, hardware acceleration was turned on for Chrome using command line switches as opposed to the Opera browser, for which the presence of hardware acceleration could not be confirmed. The fastest browsers IE9 and Firefox 3.7 calculated their use of the CPU by using Direct2D. As a result, the two browsers also recorded the least CPU usage in the test.
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