” … If you have upgraded your Firefox browser to Firefox 21, the version that got released yesterday, you may have noticed that plugins or extensions that were formerly usable in the browser were not anymore after the upgrade.“While you … Continue reading
“… Gamma is far from the only such company. Governmental surveillance is a thriving market—worth about $5 billion annually, according to the Wall Street Journal. Firms such as the German Trovicor and Vupen, from France, also deal in “government grade exploits.” …” Map … Continue reading
” … While it is in theory an interesting concept to speed things up for the user, critics argue that it is creating unnecessary overhead and that it has privacy implications. Resources that are prefetched but not accessed are wasted … Continue reading
He reviews some new and updated features plus some how-tos to change them. Linux users: Unless you installed it manually it will be updated through your distro. “Mozilla will upgrade the stable channel of its desktop browser to Firefox 20.0 … Continue reading
Several stories on this today. “… Mozilla is building a way for people to run browsers with all the powers of current plug-ins, but without the plug-ins themselves.“Martin Best, the product manager of games at Mozilla, said he expects game … Continue reading
Ad-injecting trojan targets Mac users on Safari, Firefox, and Chrome arstechnica.com/apple/2013/03/ad-injecting-trojan-targets-mac-users-on-safari-firefox-and-chrome/ ” It’s not a particularly sophisticated malware, but the fact that there is a piece of code sitting in the browser and monitoring every single piece of information is … Continue reading
” Yahoo’s partnership with a toolbar provider has led to questionable affiliate links showing up in the latest version of the Yahoo Toolbar for both Firefox and IE. “ Mar 22, 2013 Details Yahoo Toolbar Serving Up Questionable Affiliate Links … Continue reading
While this is written about Firefox some of the tips listed would apply to any browser. “Whenever you hop on to the Internet you are facing dangers. While it is relatively safe on popular sites such as Facebook or Google, … Continue reading
” YouTube has become a go-to location for listening to music — you get the video as well, but many of us just leave that in the background and listen while we work or surf. However, sometimes we all want … Continue reading
“… a brief overview of what plugins are, how you can use them, enable or disable them, stay up to date on the security front, debug problems, and whatnot. This should be an interesting exercise, although most of you are already … Continue reading