Category: Internet Explorer
Interent Explorer 8, Wave 1 Released
As a part of Internet Explorer 8 release schedule, Microsoft has released IE8 in additional 18 languages (Wave 1).
Bosnia (Cyrillic), Bosnian (Latin), Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Estonian, Hindi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 Language Packs for these languages can be downloaded from here.
Customizing Internet Explorer 8
With the Internet Explorer 8 push via automatic update, IEBlog has released an article which gives you an insight on how to customize IE8 web browser.
Post covers few aspects of web browser, from menu positioning to address bar customizations.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, April 20th
- Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2009
- Best Internet Explorer Add-Ons
- Firefox Update May Not Support Older Windows
- Nine more Firefox add-ons to try
- Best Firefox Add-Ons
- iPhone 3.0 details leaked about Mobile Safari, battery status
- Drag Tabs from Google Chrome to Firefox
- Chrome update offers tab micromanagement options
- Google Chooses Zooppa to Advertise Google Chrome
- Exclusive Interview: Google Chrome’s Chromium Core Explored : Introduction
- Nintendo DSi’s camera wows, but browser disappoints
- Cooliris Version 1.10 Now Available
World vs. Microsoft
ComputerWeekly reports that European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) group has joined EU and MS case (as complainant).
ECIS group includes large and small companies, such as:
Adobe Systems, Corel Corporation, IBM, Linspire, Nokia, Opera Software, Oracle Corporation, RealNetworks, Red Hat, and Sun Microsystems
Still no sign of Apple which is developing Safari web browser.
As previously reported, other participants are Google and Mozilla.
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EU Extends Microsoft Response Deadline (Again)
Surprisingly or not, EU has yet again extended Microsoft response deadline (which was April 21st before) on IE/Windows case. The new date so far is April 28th.
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Firefox – Browser with the Most Disclosed Vulnerabilities
From .PDF (download)
“This year, Secunia published advisories for the four most widely used web browsers: Internet Explorer (IE), Safari, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox. 31 vulnerabilities were reported for Internet Explorer (IE 5.x, 6.x, and 7), including those publicly disclosed prior to vendor patch as well as those included in Microsoft Security Bulletins. Continue Reading
Weekly Browsers Recap, April 14th
Some great articles over the last week.
- 10 Cool Things We’ll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead
- Revealed: the world’s best browser
- Browser wars 2009: Firefox, Chrome, & Internet Explorer
- Chrome is a browser? What’s a browser?
- 15 Firefox add-ons for Web developers
- Opera Aims at Becoming Number 1 Browser in Georgia
- Opera Releases Nintendo DSi Browser
Microsoft Prepares for Internet Explorer 8 Push
IE Blog reports that Microsoft will start pushing Internet Explorer 8 via automatic update to IE6 and IE7 users on about third week of April.
As you might guess, this will result in Internet Explorer 8 market share increase and hopefully IE6 decrease.
It should be also noted that IE8 won’t be installed automatically, users will do have a choice, indeed.
March, 2009 – Internet Explorer, Opera Loses; Firefox, Safari, Chrome Gains
Despite Internet Explorer 8 launch, IE continues to lose its market share and this time fell by 0.62, from 67.44% to 66.82%.
Firefox market share trend is quite clear: up, from 21.77% to 22.05% (0.28 increase).
After previous loss, Safari managed to increase its market share by 0.21, from 8.02% to 8.23%. Continue Reading
Phishing with Images Containing Hidden Code
H-Online writes:
“Arbor Networks, which specialises in combating distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, reports on it’s blog that a named web site is actively exploiting Internet Explorer’s MIME-sniffing problem to create phishing attacks. The perpetrators send email containing a supposedly harmless link that seemingly leads to a JPEG image, but the photo contains hidden HTML and JavaScript code that displays a fake eBay login page. While Firefox and Safari return an error message when loading the image, Internet Explorer executes the code.”
Continue reading at h online
Thanks to mabdul for a link.
