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Microsoft, with IE 9, isn't the only browser provider planning to harness hardware acceleration. Mozilla is planning to do the same with Firefox. Firefox developers have posted a prototype demonstrating the ability to take advantage of Direct2D and DirectWrite. Google is interested in the possibilities of hardware-accelerating Chrome, as well,...
Microsoft announced Internet Explorer 9 at its Professional Developers Conference earlier this month. One of the unique features of IE9 that Microsoft announced at that time was hardware acceleration for its browser. Thanks to technologies like Direct2D and Direct Write that are available for Windows7, Windows developers can use a computer's graphics card to render websites faster. While ...
Beta code appears on Mininova, Pirate Bay Google Chrome OS, the operating system that Google released to open source last week, has been compiled and posted for download on several file-sharing sites.
Symantec Monday said the Internet Explorer zero-day exploit code published over the weekend does not work reliably but that a better written version is likely on the way.
Microsoft Internet Explorer loses market share Google's Chrome boosted its share of the browser market by a bigger margin than did Mozilla's Firefox in October, the fourth time its gains have trumped those of the second place browser in the last year, a web metrics company said yesterday.
Mozilla has published its audited financial statements from 2008, reporting $78.6 million in revenue for the fiscal year—a five percent increase from 2007. Aside from a weakened investment portfolio, the browser maker has not been hit hard by the economic recession. Mozilla's organizational structure and governance model are a bit unusual. The Mozilla Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...
Computerworld - Microsoft today confirmed that exploit code published last week can compromise PCs running older versions of Internet Explorer (IE), but said its security team has not yet seen any in-the-wild attacks.
LOS ANGELES -- Windows President Steve Sinofsky gave some details on the development of the next version of Microsoft's Web browser, Internet Explorer 9.
PC World - Everyone's all a-twitter over Google's newly announced operating system, Google Chrome OS . Some swear it'll be a hit ; others are convinced it's destined for failure . Love it or hate it, though, this puppy's one tough piece of software to ignore.
Christmas Shopping writes with this excerpt from Kaspersky Labs' threatpost: "Back in September, when Google launched the Google Chome Frame plug-in for Internet Explorer users, Microsoft immediately warned that the move would increase the attack surface and make IE users less secure. Now comes word that a security researcher in the Microsoft Vulnerability Research (MSVR) has discovered a 'high ...
Opera has announced that the final version of its Opera Unite technology will be available in its Opera 10 web browser from today.
