Tag: internet explorer
Firefox 3 launching tomorrow, but does it beat Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera?
With the official release of Firefox 3 tomorrow, everyone’s attentions have been turned onto what you’re looking at right now – browsers. Lifehacker has reviewed the four major browsers – Firefox 3 release candidate 3, Internet Explorer 7, Opera 9.5,and Safari for Windows 3.1.1, and discovered that Firefox, Safari and Opera all fared better than, um, Internet Explorer. We could’ve told them that…
PayPal advises Safari users to ditch their browser
Ever popular eBay has sent a warning to anyone using the Safari browser to access its PayPal service.
Apparently, because Safari currently lacks any form of “anti-phishing” and Extended Validation measures, it makes it a terrible security threat. Extended Validation is a system which turns the browser’s address bar green if the user is visiting a safe site.
Michael Barrett, PayPal’s chief information security officer, said that, “Apple, unfortunately, is lagging behind what they need to do, to protect their customers. Our recommendation at this point, to our customers, is use Internet Explorer 7 or 8 when it comes out, or Firefox 2 or Firefox 3, or indeed Opera.”
The BBC's iPlayer now works on Firefox
Great news. The only time I’ve had to use Internet Explorer so far this year was when loading up the Beeb’s iPlayer to see if the new series of Torchwood was as bad and as homo-erotically-charged as everyone said it was. It was.
Fortunately, iPlayer now works on Firefox. Without any extra fiddling around. Look at that image there – I just took that in Firefox. It worked. There was no fiddling around or installing of stuff. Internet Explorer is now dead to me…
Microsoft in trouble again with EU anti-trust people – Office and IE the offenders this time
The European Union is looking into another two Microsoft anti-competition issues, it said today, with its aggressive bundling and software interoperability coming under fire from the Brussels-based freedom fighters.
At the centre of the new EU competition worries is the way MS Office interacts with rival products (ie, it often doesn’t), plus the way some of its products are locked down and force users to use Internet Explorer…
Microsoft taking Internet Explorer mobile… but is it a good idea?
Microsoft is planning to launch a version of Internet Explorer for Windows Mobile powered handsets. It’s apparently part of a strategy to take on the iPhone by matching it feature-for-feature – hence IE going up against the iPhone’s Safari browser.
Tuesday Top Ten: Reviews of the Firefox 2.0 web browser
Apparently more than two million people downloaded the Firefox 2.0 browser in the first 24 hours after it was officially released. But if you're not one of them, you're probably wondering whether it's worth getting. Plenty of people on the…
Firefox 2 launches tomorrow
The second generation of massively popular anti-IE browser Firefox (is that enough propaganda for you?) is officially released tomorrow, aiming to build on the continuing success of the first version and take further market share from Internet Explorer. Perhaps unsurprisingly,…
Internet Explorer 7 now available, first vulnerability discovered already
Microsoft has officially released its next incarnation of the Internet Explorer browser, version 7, its first major update in years. Its feature set aims to bring it more in line with rivals including Firefox, and includes tabbed browsing, an anti-phishing…
