Many experts and analysts say that Google has hidden agenda behind Chrome. It will take over your desktop, encroach your personal browsing behavior, and will gather information about users’ likes and preferences to serve right kind of ads on the page. We spoke to Google and they defended themselves. They said, “At Google, we’re committed to transparency and choice. Our mission is to make the Web better for our users through product innovation enabling users to access, share and create content quickly on a (more…)

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Desktop applications are being closely integrated with the web. With Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) it is possible to surf the web, play videos, and even make Net calls from within the application itself, sans a browser.

You’ve probably heard about Web 2.0, a new way for end-users and web
developers to use the web. In this second-generation web, the desktop will be closely integrated with the web. This integration will be so tight that a user will not even be conscious about it. For instance, one will not be able to discern whether the media player is playing songs from the Internet or from his local hard disk.

Tags: Browsers

Opera has released the latest version of its mobile browser, s that it adds many new features and will make developing for the platform much easier. Announcing the beta release Opera called the browser, “a powerful foreshadowing of what is to come, this beta takes mobile browsing speed and features to a new level, complete with visual effects and a new look.” (more…)

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A new study has shown that Firefox users are the most likely to have fully patched browsers and thus be safer online. The 18-month study was conducted by researchers at the  Swiss Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory, along with IBM and Google. (more…)

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• Every time you download any kind of media file (audio or video), the downloaded files tend to open in the default application for that file format. For example, videos downloaded from the Internet may open in Winamp by default. However, you may prefer using Windows Media Player (WMP) instead.

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Mozilla has just published the latest version of the Firefox 2.0.0.13 completed. It has some weaknesses, which are an attacked by malicious code allowed. The download of Mozilla is urgently recommended.
The vulnerabilities relate primarily JavaScript, this was due to faulty workmanship alien code. Sun has, thanks to the Mozilla developers a bugfix in the Java Runtimes. Also, the Firefox developers close a loophole allowing in a pop-up window form queries to forge or steal data. The changes were also in the mail program Thunderbird, and in the suite Seamonkey.

Tags: Browsers, firefox, javascript

Sometimes, you may want to print out a Web page you’ve found, so that you can recommend the site to a friend later. But if the URL of the page is a long one, it’s likely to be truncated in the footer of the printed page. This is because Internet Explorer, by default, uses a large font and cuts off any URL that doesn’t fit on the same line to accommodate the date.

To print the whole of a URL, every time, click ‘Tools|Internet Options’ and then on the ‘General’ tab, click the ‘Fonts’ button. Then, select a Web page font that is more compact than Times New Roman, for example, Vista’s Counrier New( This font, which is similar to Arial, will also become the default font for Web pages that  don’t specify a font). If that doesn’t print the entire Web address, give URLs a separate line. To do so, pull down the Printer toolbar and select Page Setup Enter ‘&b&u’ in the Header field to devote the full header  to the URL, (aligned to the right). (more…)

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