In short, Adobe has embraced the open web, contributing input and code to both WC3 web standards and WebKit open source web browser engine.

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For those tracking the growing malicious elements on the Web, Chrome's innovation--and GreenBorder's contribution to the open-source browser--is a technology known as "sandboxing, " a tactic that limits Web applications' access to a computer's memory beyond a virtual border.

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The software powering the device is built on the open-source Linux kernel and the open-source WebKit Web browser engine, Rathakrishnan says.

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Google is also working with Adobe and Mozilla, the foundation behind the open-source Firefox Web browser to rework how third party technologies, such as Flash, are built into browsers, Upson wrote.

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In addition to the basic open-source components, the browser has also been augmented with out-of-the-box plug-ins, including the latest versions of Adobe FlashTM and a PDF reader.

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There are many talented developers, for example, who are happy to invest countless hours with no cash compensation to develop open source software such as the Firefox browser or the Linux operating system because it gives them satisfaction and a chance to show off their coding chops to the broader community of developers.

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This has been a boon to two small browser-makers, Opera, a Norwegian software company, and Mozilla, which developed the Firefox browser based on an open-source version of Netscape.

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Things are different now because both the browser and OS markets are becoming dominated by open source software.

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The browser's user interface is based on the open-source Chromium code.

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This would presumably be in the form of a browser-based web conferencing platform based on an open-source platform (and would not require the installation of any software).

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Lukas Blakk loves open-source, and was especially jazzed about trying to get the Kinect to work via a browser plugin.

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He also oversaw the development of NCSA Mosaic--the Web browser that led to Netscape Navigator--as well as the popular open-source server software known as Apache.

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