A study today found that users of the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Web browsers are far more likely to be surfing the Web with the latest, most protected versions of the browsers than users of either Opera or Safari. Researchers at c Switzerland and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology studied through anonymized logs [...]
06.20.09 | Software Review | admin
The main contenders continue to be Internet Explorer and Firefox with the recent addition of Google Chrome. Apple’s Safari browser continues to be a strong component in the Mac world. With Internet Explorer’s security history came the trustworthy Firefox browser and that too suffered from a few minor attacks. Recently IE has gained some credibility [...]
02.13.09 | Computer Safety Tip | admin
Microsoft is rushing out an emergency patch, while other browser makers are releasing their own updates as well as people worldwide go online to do their shopping. Opera released version 9.63 of their browser, fixing several security issues. The most significant ones allow arbitrary code execution, making these just as critical as the Internet Explorer [...]
01.23.09 | Software Review | admin
We never heard about security flaws in rival browsers to Internet Explorer, but this past week Firefox, Opera, and Safari all got patched as well, leaving only Google’s Chrome as the safer alternative after Microsoft released yet another critical update to IE. Firefox patched up four serious flaws in Version 2.0 and three in Version [...]
01.7.09 | Computer News | admin
We never heard about security flaws in rival browsers to Internet Explorer, but this past week Firefox, Opera, and Safari all got patched as well, leaving only Google’s Chrome as the safer alternative after Microsoft released yet another critical update to IE. Firefox patched up four serious flaws in Version 2.0 and three in Version [...]
01.1.09 | Computer News | admin