Sophos, the highly regarded U.K. security software company, has just announced the discovery of a serious privacy leak emanating from the popular Firefox add-on ‘ShowIP’. According to the Mozilla add-on page, there are currently 169,000 people utilizing ShowIP. Here is ShowIP’s offcial description: “Show the […]
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Mozilla has announced that, after April 24th, there will be no further updates for Firefox 3.6. With the exception of any last minute security patches, Firefox 3.6.28 released last month, will be the final update. Firefox 3.6 was the last of the legacy versions before
Market share percentages for the first month of 2012 reveal some interesting statistics, not the least of which is concerning major browsers. Google Chrome shows a decrease in market share for the first time since its inception 3 years ago. During that time Chrome has
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Google Inc. had been bypassing the privacy settings on iPhones and computers to track the Web-browsing habits of millions of people using Safari, even if this type of monitoring was intended to be blocked. Google used special computer code
As previously intimated here at DCT, Mozilla and Google have now agreed to terms and a new search agreement has been duly signed. Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs confirmed the signing of a new three year deal in a recent announcement – “Under this multi-year agreement,
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On October 1st we reported predictions that Chrome would likely overtake Firefox as number 2 browser as early as December this year – HERE. The number crunchers at StatCounter Global Stats are declaring this has now actually happened: Google’s browser Chrome overtook Firefox for the
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There are several aspects of the Internet Explorer development pattern which have mystified me; primary among them has been why Microsoft would continue pouring millions of dollars into developing a browser which was no longer intrinsically connected with the Windows operating system anyway. The impending
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Don’t know how many times I have been part way through typing a comment/post on a blog or forum and inadvertently clicked on a wrong button, losing everything I have written to date and having to start all over again. Far too often would be
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Mozilla, the developer of the popular Firefox browser, are about to announce an increase in revenue for 2010. Mozilla’s gross income grew 18%, from a recorded $104 million in 2009 to an anticipated $123 million in 2010. A significantly large portion of that revenue being
Speculation is rife that Google Chrome will soon replace Firefox as the the No. 2 browser of choice, behind Internet Explorer – and statistics tend to confirm that as a likely scenario. Some are even predicting Chrome will overtake Firefox as early as December this
Continuing with their enhanced development cycle Mozilla has released version 7.0 of their popular Firefox web browser. The changelog show the following improvements: Drastically improved memory use Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems Bookmark and password changes now
