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Russian hacker gang begins two-pronged attack in order to steal user data   06/25/2004

According to an article in InfoWorld, an organized Russian hacker gang called Korgo has created dual sets of infectious programs that target vulnerabilities in Microsoft programs on both the client (browser) and server side.The malicious code tr ...

One Thing to Rule Them All   01/09/2004

One thing to rule them all One thing to find themOne thing to bring them allinto darkness and to bind themIn the land of their corridorswhere the Shadows liebrews a dark planto rule them all -us, earth and skyIt ...

New Opera contains RSS Reader - Thunderbird should get one too   12/20/2003

I forgot to mention in my previous post that the new Opera 7.5 beta contains a built-in RSS reader (cumbersome to get to / discover though ... ).It looks quit nice, and uses the Opera mail client's interface to display RSS feed items. Qui ...

New Opera 7.5 Beta Pleases   12/20/2003

Opera has released a beta version of their upcoming 7.5 browser. They have revamped the user interface considerably - replacing the persistent (and sometimes annoying) sidebar with a sleek Outlook-like icon bar. Some ...

Quirksmode: New JavaScript / CSS site by Peter-Paul Koch   11/06/2003

I had used Peter-Paul Koch's old JavaScript tutorial sites extensively over the last several years. He has now replaced that site with the new quirksmode.org, which seems to be filled with updated scripts (such as the wonderful imag ...

Competition for Mozilla heats up with Office 2003 launch   10/19/2003

Well, as you may have heard, Microsoft is set to release Office 2003 soon.It has received mixed reviews so far (Washington Post / BBC), but the most praise has been showered on Outlook, which has incorporated spam filtering, "leak-proof" email, html ...

Microsoft to discontinue Internet Explorer for the Mac   06/13/2003

According to an article at CNet's News.com, Microsoft will product no new versions of its Internet Explorer browser for the Mac (via Doron Rosenberg).Internet Explorer for the Macintosh (Mac IE) was very different ...

Google finds Mozilla more often than Internet Explorer   06/11/2003

According to Googlefight.com, Mozilla wins over Internet Explorer for the number of times it is mentioned on the Internet.I double checked the results by searching Google manually for each search term.The number:Mozilla is mentioned 5,360,000 times. ...

Browser Comparison Page updated   05/27/2003

Michael Bensch wrote in with suggested changes to the Browser Comparison Page. I have now updated it. ...

My thoughts on Safari (without having used it)   01/14/2003

Apple's new browser, Safari, has been catapuled into the limelight, after its mention at the latest Macworld. When it was announced, it made the top ten lists of Daypop, Popdex and other weblog link aggregators. Many members of ...

Comparison of features between Mozilla 1.3 Alpha and other browsers (updated Dec 30, 2002)   12/25/2002

Updated: May 27, 2003 Credits: Thanks to Michael Bensch for the corrections/ suggestions (May 27, 2003). Thanks to Rijk van Geijtenbeek from Opera for his detailed feedback (December, 2002).(Article continues further down ) ...