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Mozilla outs Firefox 12 with improved updating system

Mozilla outs Firefox 12 with improved updating system

The crew over at Mozilla have whipped up yet another version of Firefox which brings something new to the table that avid fans of the browser have been wanting for a long time; silent, (almost) automatic updates!


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Google adds tab synchronization through Chrome Beta channel

Google adds tab synchronization through Chrome Beta channel

Google is working towards rolling in a new feature for Chrome that will be of benefit to many of today's users. In arguably the best addition yet to its recent shift of focus in providing an extensive set of synchronization features, Google is about to put a cherry on top for us with an announcement on the official Chrome blog yesterday that it is going to start gradually rolling out a new "Tab Sync" feature to Chrome's Beta channel 'over the coming week'.


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Microsoft's IE web browser mildly regains usage share

Microsoft's IE web browser mildly regains usage share

With the likes of Mozilla's FireFox and Google's Chrome web browsers dominating the show these days it's hard to imagine Internet Explorer ever gaining popularity again, but the latest numbers from Net applications do in fact reflect increased usage momentum when focusing on March's usage share data.


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Opera's Mini 7 browser for Android boosts performance

Opera's Mini 7 browser for Android boosts performance

Opera has just released its latest version of Opera Mini for Android devices onto the Android Market as well as its own mobile website. The Opera Mini 7 web browser brings significantly improved hardware acceleration resulting in faster overall browsing performance and smoother panning.


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EA launches beta of free-to-play Command & Conquer MMO strategy game

EA launches beta of free-to-play Command & Conquer MMO strategy game

Electronic Arts has announced the open beta of its upcoming Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances free-to-play massively multiplayer online (MMO) strategy game.


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The final stable build of Firefox 11 arrives today

The final stable build of Firefox 11 arrives today

Little more than two months after Mozilla's final build of its "Firefox 10" web browser came out, the official stable version of FireFox 11 is now right on our doorstep with the launch taking place a little later today.


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Opera users can do online shopping easily on InMobi mobile payment platform

Opera users can do online shopping easily on InMobi mobile payment platform

InMobi has announced the partnership with Opera Software to bring InMobi’s SmartPay mobile payment platform to more than 160 million Opera mobile browser users worldwide.


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Microsoft warns users to update Internet Explorer to avoid major security risk

Microsoft warns users to update Internet Explorer to avoid major security risk

Microsoft has released a critical update for Internet Explorer that it is advising all users to download and install, warning of several vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to gain user rights on your PC.


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Google's Chrome browser to overtake Internet Explorer this year

Google's Chrome browser to overtake Internet Explorer this year

Google's Chrome web browser will overtake Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) this year, becoming the most used browser across the world, according to figures by StatCounter.


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Safari was fastest then, now the slowest according to Futuremark's Peacekeeper

Safari was fastest then, now the slowest according to Futuremark's Peacekeeper

Futuremark has released a new version of the Peacekeeper, which is a web browser benchmarking program to keep up-to-date with the increasingly recognized HTML5 standards. Along with this new release, Futuremark also reveals some interesting data on how the browsers landscape has changed over the last two and a half years. Read on to find out more.


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Adobe Flash for mobile comes to a grinding halt

Adobe Flash for mobile comes to a grinding halt

Adobe's long stand for Flash's viability comes to a conclusion when they announced the end of their efforts for developing Flash for mobile devices. Apple iOS supporters get their victory following the fulfilment of Steve's opinion in April 2010, but is this victory just for Apple fans?


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Internet Explorer 9 tops browser security test once again

Internet Explorer 9 tops browser security test once again

Remember the news we posted some time back about how Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) web browser topped the charts for browser security in Europe?It turns out that NSS Labs has released the results of yet another browser security test that pits IE9 against other popular browsers, except that this time the test consists of socially engineered malware data generated worldwide. And the results? Well, let's just say IE9 came in first yet again.


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Chromebooks can now run Windows...sort of

Chromebooks can now run Windows...sort of

Google may have explicitly declared that their Chromebooks will not allow a user to install anything to the local storage, much less replace the stock Chrome OS operating system with an alternative OS such as Windows 7 or a Linux distribution. However, the good news is that Chromebook owners who simply cannot do without Windows for their daily computing needs now have a workaround of sorts to get Windows on their machines, and it comes in the form of Citrix's new technical preview for its Receiver virtualization tool.


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Study claims that IE users have lower IQ than those who use other browsers

Study claims that IE users have lower IQ than those who use other browsers

Microsoft's venerable Internet Explorer is one of the most popular web browsers available on the market today, but attempting to link a person's intelligence to the type of browser he or she uses for their daily dose of Internet content may just sound a little too far-fetched, right? Not for AptiQuant it isn't. Apparently, the Canadian company has published a study which does exactly that. And the results? Sorry Microsoft, but the findings suggest that users of your web browser are not that smart after all. Ouch.


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Apple's new version of Safari for Windows fixes several vulnerabilities

Apple's new version of Safari for Windows fixes several vulnerabilities

Do you use Apple's Safari as your web browser of choice on your copy of Windows? Well, if you do, you might want to fire up Apple's Software Update tool, or head down directly to the Safari download page on Apple's website and get yourself a copy of the latest version of the Safari web browser for Windows, for word has it that the updated web browser comes with fixes for a variety of security flaws that could potentially allow other people to excecute various attacks on your PC.


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