Archive for April, 2008

Mozilla Firefox Protects From Internet Scammers

April 24th, 2008

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Using Mozilla’s Firefox can help you avoid many phishing scams. What does phishing mean? Basically a website will look exactly like the real one that you are trying to access. Firefox will alert you immediately if the one that you are seeing is not the real one, which will save you a lot of [...]

Competition Makes it Better

April 6th, 2008

Due to intensifying competition in the web browser industry, developers usually have the need to fight for the market share. They try to get the edge over one another, supposedly giving everyone, especially the people better services, among other benefits.
Traditionally security is thought to be managed easily with centralized control. To the contrary, however, this [...]

The Death of Netscape Navigator

April 4th, 2008

Netscape Navigator is the first commercial web browser. Released in 1994, Navigator started losing its popularity when Internet Explorer was introduced to the web by Microsoft. And get this–free!
AOL has been supporting Netscape for over ten years. Last December 28, 2007, though, AOL officially announced that they will discontinue support to Netscape. Effective February of [...]

What’s a web browser, anyway?

April 3rd, 2008

Sure, you probably know. But let’s try to check out the basics.
A web browser is a client software application that serves as a front-end for looking for information in the world wide web or local network. It facilitates search and or easy access to all information as provided by website or web servers [...]

Apple Updates Safari Browser

April 1st, 2008

Apple Inc. has announced today that it has patched 13 known vulnerabilities in Safari. The update ups the browser to Version 3.1.
The new Safari, which Apple has proclaimed to be “the world’s fastest Web browser for Mac and Windows PCs,” has fixed ten flaws that affect both Mac and Windows versions, and three that are [...]