Category: Google Chrome
Malware Block Rate: Internet Explorer – 99%, Opera – 0%
Or so it seems.
NSS Labs tested 5 most popular web browsers to find out, which one of them offer the best protection against malware.
Tested web browsers
Google Chrome 6.0.472.63
Windows Internet Explorer 8 (build 8.0.7600.16385)
Windows Internet Explorer 9 pre-BETA (build 9.0.7930.16402)
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.10
Opera 10.62 (build 3500)
Safari 5.0.1 (7533.17.8)
Results
Continue Reading
Weekly Questions Recap, December 13th
Don’t forget that you will receive points for asking/answering questions and can redeem them for cool prizes.
Unresolved
- How many browsers do you have installed on your system?
- Have you ever tried blogging?
- Is Firefox doomed?
- How to disable automatic Opera tab stacking?
- What is your favorite feature in the current Opera 11 Beta ?
- What you think about Opera 11 beta ?
- What is your favorite Opera extension?
- Create new buttons in Opera ?
- How many of YOU are using Opera browser as default on desktop?
- Have you ever ask a site to “Open the Web” (ask it to stop block Opera or oither browsers) ?
- What is your favorite Opera feature ?
- Did you tried PaleMoon Project ?
- Should Adobe add sandboxing (protected mode) to Flash Player and Shockwave Player like they did for Adobe Reader x ?
Resolved
Weekly Browsers Recap, December 13th
FavBrowser.com
• Free Xbox 360 Slim
We are giving away Microsoft’s new Xbox 360 console…
• If Web Browsers Were Celebrities
A picture.
Continue Reading
Today I Actually Used Chrome’s Incognito Browsing…
First, US announces world press freedom day and now this:
Must be one of those “weird” days…
Via: Reddit
Google Chrome 10 Introduces Crankshaft
The race is on.
Google Chrome fans will scream out of the excitement, as Google has recently released the very first build of Google Chrome 10 with Crankshaft.
What is that?
It is a new compilation infrastructure for Google’s V8 JavaScript engine.
Vygantas, it’s confusing and such, just give us benchmarks already.
Continue Reading
Download Google Chrome 8 Stable
How could we miss that…
Recently, Google has moved Google Chrome 8 into a stable release list and announced the availability of version 8.0.552.215.
What was changed?
According to the company, this release fixes more than 800 bugs (13 are security related), includes a sandboxed PDF viewer, support for the forthcoming Chrome Web Apps store and experimental Flags menu feature.
What does it do?
Allows you to tweak a setting or two (check the screenshot above).
Your Browsing Habits Revealed
Exposes all sorts of weird data.
Mozilla team has conducted a survey that aims to learn more about the user browsing habits.
About the survey
Test duration: 7 days
Test type: Global
Versions covered: Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6, Firefox 4 Beta
Data submission: 527,817 test sets submitted in November 2010.
Results
Continue Reading
Silverlight 5 Beta (64 bit) in H1 2011
Brings more goodies to the table.
Earlier this month, Microsoft has revealed the very first information about the upcoming Silverlight 5 release.
According to “The Future of Microsoft Silverlight” web site, Silverlight 5 will introduce more than 40 new features, including developer productivity improvements as well as huge boost in the video quality and performance.
Key new features:
Continue Reading
HTML5 Awesome: Tron Trailer
Ah, the joys of HTML5.
Franz Enzenhofer has created a Tron trailer demo to demonstrate the possibilities of HTML5 canvas tag.
So what can you do with it? Add effects, change size, scale, rotation and skew.
It’s pretty neat, check it out.
Via Geek.com
