When Internet Explorer 8 came out Microsoft said they had seriously improved security and that it was now one of the safest web browsers to use. Apparently they were wrong. According to the Guardian newspaper here in the UK an exploit in Internet Explorer was used in the recent attack on Google’s systems in [...]
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I recently posted how Windows 7 in Europe was going to come without a browser. Apparently now it is looking like instead of having no browsers you will be asked to select a browser when you install Windows 7 and it will then install your chosen web browser. No word yet on which browsers will [...] Well Apple has gone and released the memory hog that is Safari 4. It does look good but given that it uses a ridiculous amount of memory I think I will pass. It has some nice features that only work on a mac. Go figure. Also Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox 3.5. It [...] June 9th, 2009 |
 Chrome, Firefox, Flock, Safari, web browsers, Web Development |  Computers, Internet, Software, Web Development |  4 comments Mozilla has released a new add on for their Firefox web browser that lets you skin it. By skin it I mean an image wil appear behind the toolbars and behind the status bars with the text colour of the bars changed to match. You can read more about it, view the available skins and [...] I’m a hobbyist web developer and nothing annoys me more than web sites that have obviously paid for someone to build their sites but whoever has built it has done a half arsed job. My main gripe at the moment is sites that require you to have cookies enabled but have terrible code in place [...] March 30th, 2009 |
Chrome, Firefox, IE, web browsers, Web Development | Internet, Rants, Web Development | Leave a comment Just found out that Microsoft has finally released Internet Explorer 8 for public consumption. Now whilst IE 8 is a step in the right direction it is far from perfect. A good example of a typical Microsoft cock up can be seen here. So do you update? The decision is yours but just remember there [...] OK thanks to Google’s Chrome and Apple now making Safari a serious browser for Windows the browser war is getting ridiculous. They all seem obsessed with how fast their Javascript engines run with Google now saying the V8 engine in Chrome 2 is 25% faster than in Chrome 1. Who cares? The speed of the [...] March 18th, 2009 |
Computers, Firefox, Google, Javascript, Opera, Safari | Computers, Internet, Javascript, Rants | One comment |
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