September 8, 2010 6:34 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
Mozilla Labs has a new in-browser gaming project.
(Credit:
Mozilla)
Computer games have played an important role in advancing the state of the art for computing, and now Mozilla hopes to draw upon gaming to advance for browser application development.
The
Firefox backer launched the new Mozilla Labs Gaming [...]
September 8, 2010 3:00 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
Mozilla released two new versions of its browser on Tuesday, Firefox 3.6.9 and Firefox 3.5.12, to close 10 critical security vulnerabilities in each and to help Web site operators block a risk called clickjacking.
Critical vulnerabilities can let a remote attacker run arbitrary code on [...]
September 2, 2010 7:37 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
It’s been two years since the first public version of Chrome appeared, but in some ways, Google’s browser remains a novelty.
On Thursday, Google released the sixth stable version of Chrome, though only the second for
Mac OS and Linux users. In other hands, it would [...]
August 27, 2010 2:32 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
Experimental work under way in Chrome gives the browser a graphical way to switch among tabs similar to Apple's Expose feature.
(Credit:
Nico Weber)
Chrome programmers have begun experimental work to endow Google’s browser with a full-screen tab-management interface similar to the Panorama feature Mozilla is adding [...]
August 27, 2010 2:32 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
(Credit:
Google)
Chrome programmers have begun experimental work to endow Google’s browser with a full-screen tab-management interface similar to the Panorama feature Mozilla is adding to Firefox.
As browsers have expanded to accommodate ever larger amounts of computing tasks, separating different tasks into different tabs across the [...]
August 27, 2010 2:32 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
(Credit:
Google)
Chrome programmers have begun experimental work to endow Google’s browser with a full-screen tab-management interface similar to the Panorama feature Mozilla is adding to Firefox.
As browsers have expanded to accommodate ever larger amounts of computing tasks, separating different tasks into different tabs across the [...]
August 25, 2010 11:50 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
The current version of
Firefox will likely be the end of the road for people using PowerPC Macs.
A final decision will be based on usage data that’s better than what Mozilla possesses right now, but technical difficulties raised by Firefox 4 improvements mean at a [...]
August 24, 2010 12:03 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
Firefox Panorama lets people group tabs in a visual array in an attempt bring some order to browser tab chaos.
(Credit:
Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
Mozilla released its fourth beta of
Firefox 4 on Tuesday, bringing a new feature that addresses one of the biggest challenges in the [...]
August 23, 2010 4:12 PM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
An end has come to a major part of Sun Microsystems’ attempt to transform Solaris from a proprietary version of Unix to an open-source operating system built by others, too.
Instead of becoming a rival to the broadly developed Linux operating system, control over the [...]
August 20, 2010 7:46 AM PDT
by Stephen Shankland
Google patched 11 vulnerabilities–three critical, seven high-risk, and one medium–in a new version of Chrome released Thursday.
All but one of the problems was in Chrome itself. The additional issue handled in Chrome 5.0.375.127 is a workaround for a critical Windows kernel bug, according to [...]