Posts Tagged ‘internet-explorer’

Google releases ‘Chrome’ an open sourced browser

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Google stirred up the browser wars again yesterday by releasing Google Chrome yesterday. Chrome is an open sourced browser. One of the biggest features it introduces is in terms of stability. Chrome keeps each tab in a “sandbox” so if something happens to crash a page or tab you only lose that one [...]

Google Gets In Deeper With Firefox

Friday, January 6th, 2006

Already we see their cobranded advertising buttons on many blogs. Now, with today’s expected announcement that Google will release a Google Pack, including Firefox, the collaboration gets deeper.
Rumors that Google might enter the software market have swirled since at least last March, when the search giant hired Mozilla developers–fueling talk of a potential Google-branded [...]

Microsoft Adopts Mozilla’s RSS Feed Button

Friday, December 16th, 2005

While Microsoft has debated which RSS icon to use in their upcoming versions of Internet Explorer, Office, and Vista, they’ve gone from designing their own, to now adopting Mozilla’s orange version. 
Knowing that whatever icon Microsoft chooses will end up being the standard, I can only applaud them for taking their largest competitor’s icon and [...]

Easily ID Secure Site

Monday, December 12th, 2005

Internet Explorer has taken a beating this year from  Firefox, partially because of security issues (though most users say they  made the switch initially for tabbed browsing).  IE 7 hopes to draw some users back in with enhanced security features (and tabbed browsing).
In Microsoft’s forthcoming Internet Explorer 7, sites that have a high-assurance digital certificate [...]