On the iPad, I tested it in Apple's Safari browser as well as Google's Chrome browser.
The phone's browser also loads Web pages more quickly--slow browsing is a frequent criticism of BlackBerrys in general.
Mozilla's definitely on track with its bigger goal: taking a big bite out of Microsoft 's browser monopoly.
But one security researcher has revealed a tool that hides users in a less innocent guise: An unwitting victim's browser.
It found that hackers could exploit weaknesses in the way that Microsoft's browser handles vector graphics to hijack Windows PCs.
The company's browser had just over 40% of the global market in November, down from 56.6% two years earlier, according to StatCounter.
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Today, Microsoft's browser is pre-installed on nearly every computer system running Windows.
Here's how it works: When a customer makes an online purchase, the retailer's Web site sends a cookie to the customer's browser.
Use software that adds a padlock icon in the user's browser window.
The users of Yandex's browser can see locally relevant information, such as current traffic or weather conditions, in real time, right in the browser interface.
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People end up on Netscape's site because it is the default home page for Netscape's browser, which still edges out Microsoft's offering, Internet Explorer, in popularity.
However, Microsoft's browser is so vulnerable to attacks by online crooks and various troublemakers that the American and German governments have recommended that users consider alternatives.
The Kin additionally shares the Zune HD's browser engine, a hybrid of IE 7 and 8 that features pinch-to-zoom but has no support for Flash or Silverlight.
On November 1st an alliance including Google, the most popular web-search engine, and several other firms announced a plan to make social networks as open as Netscape's browser made the web.
Thanks to the IR sensor, the phone's browser responds to an "up swipe" in the air above it with by scrolling up, and to a "side" swipe by jumping to another tab.
In its ideal form, it is an impressive product: Using a small, easily downloaded application that resides in a user's browser, Netflix detects the user's bandwidth and streams a movie at optimal resolution to avoid pauses to reload.
The tool takes advantage of cross-site scripting, a common bug in Web sites that takes control of a user's browser when he or she clicks on a specially crafted link, or in some cases, simply visits a compromised page.
He argues that the data requiring opt-in measures defined by the bill in its current form could include not just names and addresses but also IP addresses and "cookie" files that sites download to a user's browser to note his or her path on the Web.
With SimpleTap users can take advantage of Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) in a number of ways such as using the NFC card shipping with all 802.11ac enabled Smart Wi-Fi routers, pushing the physical WPS button on a router or pushing the WPS button in the router's browser or app interface.
We've poked around the app for a few minutes, and it does feel peppy compared to what we experienced with Facebook (while it was available, anyway) -- the only oddity that's arisen lies with the map functionality, which opens a Google Maps page within the Vita's browser rather than its Maps app.
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While there are a raft of bells and whistles -- a new welcome page, curvy Australis tabs, Flash and HTML5 support, for starters -- it's the browser's newfound speed that is getting the MVP treatment.
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Specifically, Microsoft committed to make available for five years (i.e. until 2014) in the European Economic Area a "choice screen" enabling users of Windows to choose in an informed and unbiased manner which web browser(s) they wanted to install in addition to, or instead of, Microsoft's web browser.
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The bulk of mobile data requests sent to Akamai's platform saw Android's Webkit browser and Apple's Mobile Safari come in nearly neck-and-neck at 35.3 percent and 32.6 percent.
Downloadify, an extension to Google's Chrome browser, enabled users to download MP3 files by exploiting a vulnerability in Spotify's web player.
They pointedly noted that Adobe's Flash media player will be integrated into the system's Web browser.
Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s Safari browser has a 2% share.
Or the app might open the phone's Web browser to allow functionality that could be handled other ways.
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Apple's Safari browser leads on mobile phones and tablets, with 59% share, thanks to the popularity of the iPhone and iPad.
For Check Point, Go Secure automates interactions between an end user's Web browser and a Check Point client to install certificates.
And he says his BlackBerry's Internet browser is slow and that it is difficult to open documents sent as email attachments.
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