Every year, CanSecWest hosts a competition to analyse digital security. The most interesting among them are industry’s top Internet browsers, Operating systems. Pwn2Own hacker challenge wrapped up today with the same hacker taking the most vulnerable browser down, yet again.

As usual, Safari was the first to fall, followed by IE 8, then was Firefox on Windows 7 x64 and .. Read Further »

Internet Explorer 8 and lower showed the world that a browser can have poor underlying javascript execution engines, lack of Modern web support (HTML5, CSS3) and poor threads that render webpages sluggishly for most users.

But it’s time to change it all. Microsoft has built the new browser ground up and lead innovation to let the industry to follow. IE9 is the First browser to support full GPU acceleration (Direct 2D) Rendering which means your graphics card is now put to good use. Earlier to this Firefox 3.7 nightly showed some GPU rendering which is pretty .. Read Further »

SpiderMonkey is the secret sauce that gave us the first browser that was leap ahead of IE. But, over the years competitors like Opera, Chrome, Safari had left Firefox far behind in performance.

Mozilla had started working on “JagerMonkey”, a new “baseline” method JIT compiler for SpiderMonkey, Firefox.The JagerMonkey method JIT will provide a much better performance baseline, and tracing will .. Read Further »

I happen to use four instances of Firefox- One each on my personal laptop, office laptop, remote desktop and solaris desktop and find it very tedious to have all the same stuff synced across the browsers.

When Xmarks came, it solved part of the problem by syncing Firefox and Chrome bookmarks. But I was still looking for a solution that could sync my settings, addons. Mozilla Weave partly solved bunch of it by providing settings sync. But wait a minute, .. Read Further »

It’s time for industry to move on from Internet Explorer after the high profile attack on Google [Aurora Details].

At the right time comes the Mozilla’s next version to .. Read Further »

Firefox may be slow but Addons is what keeps it all alive and kicking. Most of use lots of them, still hungry for gettings handson new ones. Here are 5 Awesome FirefoxAddons you shouldn’t miss.

Mozilla had been working hard to catchup with Google Chome. Multiprocess is still on the plan and we now see one achievement, multi-process plugins. The feature is now available in latest nightly trunk.