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Firefox 3.5 passes 5 million downloads in one day
Officially released by Mozilla last Tuesday, it has now emerged that Firefox 3.5, the latest release of the most popular open source web browser has seen a staggering 5 million downloads in the first... Read more...
Phoenix provides an alternative to traditional operating systems
Despite being the largest provider of BIOS software to computer makers in the world, Phoenix Technologies is not about to sit still. For now, Phoenix has already upped the ante by leveraging... Read more...
Safari 4 dominates JavaScript benchmarks
The recently released beta of Apple's Safari 4 browser managed to beat all other browsers available today when it comes to rendering JavaScript. Conducted using the SunSpider suite of JavaScript... Read more...
Firefox architect not in favor of being bundled with Windows
Even as Microsoft mulls the ruling passed down by the EU that the company had abused its monopoly by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, Mozilla is "kind of worried" about its Firefox web... Read more...
Google Chrome releases 1.0; no longer in beta
Google's new web browser, first unveiled just three months ago, has come out of beta. Google Chrome 1.0 is now available for download for the Windows platform. Linux and Mac versions are still being... Read more...
Cutting the computer start time
It may only take a few minutes for a computer to boot up, but apparently that is far too long for some folks in our fast-paced society. In the next few months, the big PC makers plan to introduce a... Read more...
Unpatched web browsers a security threat
A new study has found that about 40 percent of Internet users do not have up-to-date, fully patched Web browsers - creating a weak link in the security chain that leaves them vulnerable to digital... Read more...






