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Vivaldi Web Browser Adds DuckDuckGo Search Engine
Vivaldi Adds DuckDuckGo As far as web browsers go, Vivaldi is not particularly mainstream. Similar to others such as Opera though, it does have a small, but growing fanbase. Given the way in which Internet Explorer (or Edge, it’s the same thing) or Chrome can gobble your resources people have…
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Researchers Find Malware Hiding in GIFs
Security researchers have found a type of malware on popular websites which hides in advertisement images and has been active for around two years. The Stegano exploit kit – discovered by Eset researchers – finds vulnerable computers and displays a custom GIF, the alpha channel of which contains malicious code.…
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Windows 10 Family Settings Now Blocks Rival Browsers
Microsoft has revealed that it is to block rival internet browsers by default when Family Features filters are applied in Windows 10. The ban, according to Microsoft, is designed to protect children by preventing them from bypassing website blacklists. As a result, kids using Windows 10 under family filters will…
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Microsoft Browsers Lose Users At Record Rate
Just a month after Google’s Chrome stole the top browser crown from Microsoft, IE and Edge have continued their downward spiral of popularity according to data released yesterday. As, Internet Explorer and Edge combined occupy 38.7% of the global user share, which is to say the percentage of all desktop…
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Firefox Bumps Microsoft Browsers Down to Third Place
Arriving to market in the early 2000s, Mozilla Firefox soon offered a viable alternative to the Microsoft Internet Explorer dominated landscape. After defeating Netscape, Microsoft IE soon stagnated and Firefox became the go-to browser for those who wanted more. Even with the rise of Chrome, Firefox has retained a loyal following over…
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Microsoft’s Edge to Test Browser Extensions
In this day and age, people enjoy customizing their experience with everything. The same goes for their experience when browsing online and with the likes of Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome offering countless extensions Microsoft’s latest browser, Edge, seems to be lacking the feature. That looks to change with Microsoft looking to…
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Edge and Internet Explorer Browsers Lose Ground to Make Way for Google
It’s no big secret that Microsoft’s browsers are often swapped for offerings from Mozilla and Google, but it looks like their popularity has declined quite a bit last month, at least according to a recent report by Computerworld. Apparently, Edge and Internet Explorer accounted for 44.8% of all browsers used to reach…
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End of Life for Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 on Tuesday
Internet Explorer has few fans amongst the tech community, with it’s blatant disregard for web standards and numerous security and privacy issues over the years. It has been some time in the works, but Microsoft has announced that the ‘end of life‘ of these older versions of their web browser…
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Microsoft Edge Has the Same Security Holes as Internet Explorer
Hopes were so high. After years of being the butt of every browser joke for its poor performance and woeful security, Microsoft announced that its ailing browser Internet Explorer was being replaced by Microsoft Edge with the release of Windows 10. But a recent investigation by Woody Leonhard of InfoWorld…
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Microsoft Discouraging Users From Downloading Competing Browsers
Microsoft is aggressively pushing the Edge browser in Windows 10 and trying to prevent users from downloading an alternative such as Chrome, Firefox or Opera. By default, Windows 10 only includes Microsoft products such as Edge or Internet Explorer 11 and you have to use Bing to procure a different…
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Internet Explorer Celebrates Its 20th Birthday
The Internet Explorer isn’t the youngest application anymore, in fact, it could celebrate its 20th birthday yesterday. That’s quite a milestone and while it has been discontinued and replaced by the new Edge browser (formerly known as Spartan), it will undoubtedly be around for many more years on systems that…
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Four New Bugs Have Been Found in Internet Explorer
I know most of you don’t even use Internet Explorer and we all know how it was humiliated throughout the years. However, since the new Microsoft Edge might be using some IE code, it’s worth pointing this out anyway. It looks like security experts have encountered and disclosed four new…
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YouTube Live Streaming Now Available With HTML5 and 60FPS Support
It looks like the old Flash Player is going to be scrapped sooner than expected. After enabling support for HTML5 video playback, YouTube is now extending that support to live streaming sessions. This means that users can now watch live streaming videos on HTML5-enabled browsers and at 60FPS! The slow…
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Microsoft’s Spartan Browser Included in Latest Windows 10 Preview Build
The latest build of Windows 10 Technical Preview has given us the first glimpse of Microsoft’s new browser, codenamed Project Spartan. Initially thought to be a direct replacement for the much-maligned Internet Explorer, it has since emerged that Microsoft is to phase out the old browser gradually, with Spartan taking…
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Internet Explorer Is Getting a Name Change
Despite no official word, rumors are that Microsoft is ditching the Internet Explorer brand for something new, and all we know for sure now is its code-name, Project Spartan. During the Microsoft Convergence, Microsoft’s marketing chief Chris Capossela revealed that they are working on the new brand now, and its new…
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