Entries Tagged as 'Browsers'

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Opera Browser Mouse Gestures

Since my recent Firefox issues, I have switched to using the Opera web browser and I must say that there are several features that have really impressed me.
One is what Opera calls Mouse Gestures. By clicking a mouse button and moving the mouse in the prescribed direction at the same time, you can navigate […]

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Firefox Memory Leak

It may just be me, but is Firefox having some memory leak issues? I have noticed it over the past few weeks and today it has finally forced me to exclusively use my second favorite browser - Opera, which is a super browser in its own right.
When I fire up Firefox, immediately 50Mb gets […]

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Apple Safari Beta Runs on Windows PCs

Apple is creating the new Safari Web Browser to run on Windows PCs. One can download it directly from Apple’s web site, which I did, with mixed results. I then uninstalled it after hearing about the security holes.
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007

New Firefox Vulnerability Reported

There has been a vulnerability found in the Firefox web browser that could allow a phishing web site [define Phishing] to appear authentic.
This but was posted by Michal Zalewski on Full Disclosure, a security mailing list . A phisher could potentially manipulate authentication cookies and that could cause a malicious web site to appear […]

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Microsoft Patches Six Critical Flaws

When you are the world’s largest maker of software and your software runs on about 95 percent of the world’s computers, you are going to have to fix things on a regular basis. This month’s edition of Patch Tuesday brings us patches for 6 critical flaws in Microsoft software.
The patches fixed holes in Windows […]

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