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What is new in Firefox Shiretoko Alpha 2?
By: Davey Winder

You wait ages, well minutes, for a new open source web browser client then a bunch all come along at once. So what's new in Firefox Shiretoko Alpha 2 then?



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Firefox and Norton: FIGHT!
By: Davey Winder

Firefox 3.0.1 has been around for months, Norton 360 2.0 and Internet Security 2008 ditto. For many users, however, it would appear that the two cannot live happily together. So just what is the problem?


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Google Chrome: not faster, safer or smaller after all
By: Davey Winder

Like the iPhone, Google Chrome has been embraced by most of the media with rose-tinted spectacles enhanced praise. Much of the acclaim coming before anyone had actually even used the open source browser in a real-world environment. Now that it has been put to that test, how shiny can the Chrome reputation remain?


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Chrome grabs "phenomenal" one percent of browser market on day one
By: Stuart Corner

According to Internet monitoring company, StatCounter, Google's new browser, Chrome, took one percent of the global browser market within a day of launch.


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Discovering Mozilla Firefox: an introduction
By: Hamish Taylor

During last week, I overheard someone fairly technically-savvy saying that he didn't want to switch to an alternative web browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, as he didn't know where things were and how to do basic things, such as setting his Home page. He said that learning something new was all too difficult and he'd just stick with Internet Explorer.


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Anatomy of a modest web site - lessons for all
By: Tony Austin

If you're the owner of a web site, or interested in web site design or maintenance or traffic analysis, here's a pictorial snapshot that shows some things to look for. Included are some current trends, including the state of the Browser Wars just as the upstart Google Chrome browser appears.


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Firefox browser goes Ubiquitous
By: Tony Austin

On 26th August 2008 Mozilla Labs introduced Ubiquity for Firefox, described as an experiment into connecting the Web with language, and at first sight it appears very promising.


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Internet Explorer 8 – does it rate as Firefox bait?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

IE8 has finally launched in beta 2 mode, dubbed “ready” for consumers to play with and try, and so far, it seems to match the competition with long-overdue features, while adding some new ones of its own. Should you download it?


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Giving identity thieves and hackers the big finger – protect yourself!
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

What should you do to protect yourself, your computer, your online accounts and your digital self from being hacked? As with all protective measures, there’s no one single “magic bullet” solution, but instead, layers of protective technologies and practices that you need to employ to thwart the “bad guys” on multiple levels. Please read on.


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JavaScript speed boost ahead for Mozilla's Firefox
By: Stephen Withers

Web applications are set for a speed boost, but it's nothing to do with their developers. The TraceMonkey project is hard at work on a new and much faster implementation of JavaScript for the Firefox browser.


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Microsoft's Photosynth swamped
By: Stephen Withers

A massive influx of users keen to try out Microsoft's new Photosynth photo visualisation service brought the system to its knees, forcing Microsoft to temporarily restrict access.


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iPhone 3G unlock – slow progress, no guarantee it will ever come
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

The iPhone Dev Team has issued its latest posting with an update on the iPhone 3G unlock process, while also sharing some of the stats on page views, visitor networks and browsers having accessed the Dev Team’s blog site.


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Face off part two: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests
By: David M Williams

Last week I put Windows Vista Ultimate and Fedora Linux 9 to a test. The article hit the front page of Digg but received a lot of criticism by those disappointed with the performance of Internet Explorer. So, let's dig deeper and use Firefox to see if Internet Explorer's memory footprint is actually a Windows Vista "feature" or not. It's time for the ultimate smackdown: Internet Explorer vs Firefox on Vista.


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Face off: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests
By: David M Williams

Forget fear, uncertainty and doubt. How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems as they perform functionally identical tasks.
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Critical security fixes arrive for Firefox 2 and 3
By: Stephen Withers

New updates to Firefox 2 and 3 include security patches for critical flaws that could expose users to remote code execution. The Firefox 3 update also includes bug fixes for stability and other issues.


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Firefox 3 reaches new record but will IE 8 smash it?
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Firefox 3 recorded more than 8 million downloads on “download day”, and I can say I was responsible for one of those, as can 8 million others worldwide. Still, it leaves me wondering how many will download IE 8 upon its release, and whether we should all just forget about IE and Firefox and use Opera instead.


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Firefox 3 downloads set Guinness World Record
By: Stephen Withers

Guinness World Records has validated Mozilla's attempt to set a record for the number of software downloads in a 24 hour period. The official count of Firefox 3 downloads was 8,002,530.


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Browser minefield: 637 million potential disasters waiting to blow up
By: Stephen Withers

637 million users are open to security exploits that have already been blocked by developers, making them easy targets for drive-by download attacks. A joint study by ETH Zurich, Google and IBM has found over 40 percent of web users are running unpatched or outdated browsers


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