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Tweet First looks: A day with IE8 beta 2 There’s plenty to like in Microsoft’s new browser, but is it enough to stem the FireFox tide? I have used Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) intensively since its beta 2 release on 27 August, mostly with good results. The improved HTML and CSS standards support in [...]

Tweet Google secures Firefox search box until 2011 If you are a regular user of the Firefox browser then you are used to seeing the search box in the top right hand corner of the window. You are also used to the default search engine for that box being Google. That default option didn’t just [...]

Tweet Naturally Firefox A way of joining up different uses of the web so when you want to invite someone out to dinner, say, a browser finds a restaurant, finds a review and then emails it all over with a map. Iain Simons reports For the early adopters amongst you, Mozilla Labs have released a [...]

Tweet Google and Firefox Together Until 2011 Mozilla, the makers of Firefox internet browser (the only notable competitor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer), has extended its deal with Google – meaning the search giant will continue to be the default search engine on all its Firefox installs until 2011. The deal, which was first agreed on [...]

Tweet Red Hat hack prompts critical OpenSSH update Red Hat has warned that hackers were able to commandeer its systems and tamper with code – but said that since its content distribution was not hit, it is confident that polluted code has not served up to users. The first hint that something was wrong came [...]