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Google Keep My Opt-Outs for Chrome prevents personalized ads

, Jan 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

First Mozilla detailed its "do not track" system for Firefox, and now Google has announced its own version for Chrome. Keep My Opt-Outs is a Chrome browser extension that takes advantage of ad industry regulations around personalized web adverts; basically, it lets surfers permanently opt out of ad tracking. Read The Full Story

Firefox “Do Not Track” header detailed for online privacy

, Jan 24th 2011 Discuss [4]

Mozilla's Global Privacy and Public Policy Leader, Alex Fowler, has detailed the upcoming Do Not Track functionality headed to Firefox. As Mozilla envisages it, the system "allows users to set a browser preference that will broadcast their desire to opt-out of third party, advertising-based tracking by transmitting a Do Not Track HTTP header with every click or page view in Firefox." Read The Full Story

Use Firefox? Time to Block that Skype Toolbar

, Jan 21st 2011 Discuss [3]

Word from Mozilla is that one of the top crashers of Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13 (current version) is the Skype toolbar. This toolbar works with Firefox to detect phone numbers in webpages, turning them into clickable buttons. This extension is bundled with Skype and is clicked to be installed by default whenever someone downloads or updates Skype. Now Mozilla has found that over the past week this toolbar has been responsible for almost 40,000 crashes of Firefox. That's a lot. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry PlayBook gets browser demo: Flash, HTML5, more [Video]

, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [6]

RIM has outed another BlackBerry PlayBook demo video, this time showing the QNX tablet's browser in action. As well as streaming HTML5 video, the demo shows Flash-based gaming and social networks like Facebook, including support for things like Facebook chat. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

LG Optimus 2X goes head-to-head with iPhone 4 in browser showdown [Video]

, Jan 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

LG is expected to launch its Tegra 2 based Android Optimus 2X smartphone at CES 2011 this week, but the few units floating around in the wild in South Korea have led to some early testing up against the iPhone 4. Android Arena spotted a video pitting the Optimus 2X against the Apple smartphone in a browser speed test, and while it's far from scientific, the Android handset does seem to hold its own. Read The Full Story

Opera for Tablets gets pre-CES preview [Video]

, Jan 3rd 2011 Discuss [0]

Opera has announced a new touch browser for tablets and netbooks, Opera for Tablets, which will make its official debut at CES 2011 later this week. Demonstrated on a Samsung Galaxy Tab, the browser looks reasonably similar to Opera Mini, already available for Android devices, though scaled somewhat to suit a tablet-sized touchscreen. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

IE9 5x more malware secure than Firefox say researchers

, Dec 16th 2010 Discuss [5]

Internet Explorer 9 has been praised for its malware-blocking abilities, with researchers NSS Labs finding [pdf link] the Microsoft browser was more than five times more likely to protect surfers from socially-engineered malware than Firefox 3.6. Looking solely at "a web page link that directly leads to a download that delivers a malicious payload whose content type would lead to execution, or more generally a website known to host malware links" - i.e. fake downloads as often seen on Facebook or Twitter - the research found IE9 capable of blocking 99-percent of the threats encountered. Read The Full Story

IE9 anti-tracking protection measures detailed after FTC privacy pan

, Dec 8th 2010 Discuss [0]

Microsoft will debut anti-tracking technology as part of Internet Explorer 9, which will use "Tracking Protection Lists" (TPL) to better allow surfers control over which sites can see where they've been browsing previously. According to the company's IE blog, the system will be similar to a "do not call" register for phones, with users creating lists of trusted or untrusted sites in their TPLs that set out which sites can access cookies, images, HTML and other code. Read The Full Story

Amazon Kindle for Web full ebook access to get previewed today

, Dec 7th 2010 Discuss [0]

Amazon is expected to demo its latest version of Kindle for the Web today, opening up the online ebook preview system to full texts available in the browser. According to ComputerWorld, the cloud-based ereading system is Amazon's response to Google's eBookstore, which has launched complete with an online ereader app. Read The Full Story

Opera Mobile 10.1 for Nokia smartphones launches

, Nov 24th 2010 Discuss [0]

Opera has announced some good news for Nokia Symbian Series 60 smartphone users that are looking for a new browser. Opera 10.1 for the device has now launched. The new browser brings with it some really nice updates for the user to enjoy and make their browsing experience better. Read The Full Story

Opera 11 beta adds tab stacks & speed boost [Video]

, Nov 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

Opera has pushed out the first beta of Opera 11, the latest iteration of its browser and the first to support tab stacking. Billed as a less cluttered and more intuitive way to deal with tabs than the regular side-by-side layout, groups can be organized by site or by theme, and new stacks created by simply dropping one tab onto another (a little like how iOS folders work). Meanwhile Opera 11 also gets extension support, mouse gestures and more. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

IE9 SunSpider oddness prompts Microsoft benchmark-gaming rumors

, Nov 17th 2010 Discuss [0]

Unusual testing results have led to speculation that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 engineers are building the browser to return unusually high benchmark results, unwarranted by overall performance. Mozilla coder Rob Sayre noticed that IE9 consistently managed a score at least 10x faster than every other browser on SunSpider's math-cordic test; he tweaked a few variations into the test (which should all have roughly the same results), and found that the performance boon only applied in the default SunSpider benchmarking. Read The Full Story
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