Google offers a $20,000 prize for those who can break the Chrome browser's security. The prize can be won in the Pw2Own competition. To increase the safety of its product, Google is ready to pay money to the first who can find security vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser. It is worth noting that last year Chrome was the only browser that was not hacked by competitors. The competition will be held March 9-11.
In the beginning of 2011, we have conducted a browsers test to find out which one is the fastest and compatible with the latest Internet standards. We have tested all most popular browsers (Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer) as well as less popular (Rekonq, SeaMonkey, Konqueror). The browsers were tested with the Peacekeeper, Sunspider, Google V8, and Dromaeo JavaScript benchmarks. in addition, we have check the browsers' compatibility with the latest web standards using the ACID3 test.
Firefox is the browser for which we can find a large number of plugins that extend its functionality. In this flood it is difficult to distinguish real gems from unnecessary waste. However, CNET editors have selected the best plugins for Firefox in 2009.
Stephen Horlander, who works at the Mozilla Corporation as a Visual Designer, presented a few new conceptual user interface projects which can be implemented in the upcoming version of Firefox for Windows.
WebGL is a new standard for displaying 3D graphics in a web browser window. Recently, the standard has been implemented in the WebKit engine. Now it is time for Mozilla. The latest test version of Firefox also supports WebGL.
Google offers a $20,000 prize for those who can break the Chrome browser's security. The prize can be won in the Pw2Own competition. To increase the safety of its product, Google is ready to pay money to the first who can find security vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser. It is worth noting that last year Chrome was the only browser that was not hacked by competitors. The competition will be held March 9-11.
In the beginning of 2011, we have conducted a browsers test to find out which one is the fastest and compatible with the latest Internet standards. We have tested all most popular browsers (Opera, Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer) as well as less popular (Rekonq, SeaMonkey, Konqueror). The browsers were tested with the Peacekeeper, Sunspider, Google V8, and Dromaeo JavaScript benchmarks. in addition, we have check the browsers' compatibility with the latest web standards using the ACID3 test.
Firefox is the browser for which we can find a large number of plugins that extend its functionality. In this flood it is difficult to distinguish real gems from unnecessary waste. However, CNET editors have selected the best plugins for Firefox in 2009.
