web browsers

Songbird 0.7.0 Review - Audio Player for Linux

Linux Today  Fri, 10/17/2008 - 17:33

TuxArena: "I'll start with a quote from the official Songbird homepage, which goes like 'Songbird promises to be the Firefox of media players'.

Although not (yet) as popular in the audio players world as Firefox is in the one of web browsers, Songbird looks and offers an interface which integrates both powerful browsing features and music collection management."


 

Adobe Flash Player Fix Stops 'Clickjacking'

InformationWeek Internet News  Fri, 10/17/2008 - 14:15

Adobe recommends users upgrade to Flash Player version 10.0.12.36 to avoid bugs that could lead to an attack over Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or Chrome Web browsers.


 

Browser-Makers Seek Clickjacking Fix

Redmond Developer News | News  Sun, 09/28/2008 - 19:00

What is clickjacking? Security pros are trying to make sense of a new bug found by researchers that apparently affects various Web browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer.


 

Google Chrome . . . for Linux?!

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Fri, 09/19/2008 - 13:27

As some of you know, Google released a new browser recently, something called Chrome. The idea is/was to fix everything that is wrong with browsers and make the Web browsers a tool to run applications.

As opposed to just viewing Web pages. I'm being a bit silly here, but Chrome is built to be more like an operating system than a plain old browser.

There's more but it's all only for Windows users since a Linux version doesn't yet exist. Wait . . . What? Check out this screenhost (click it for a full screen view).


 

Firefox 3 - The Beast Among Web Browsers

Linux Today  Tue, 09/16/2008 - 13:01

TuxArena: "Some would say Firefox is one of the most important proofs that open-source can and is actually better than closed, proprietary software."


 

12 Web Browsers for Linux - Review

Linux Today  Thu, 07/17/2008 - 06:00

Echoes: "An interesting browser, Kazehakase can use the Gecko engine, it supports mouse gestures, it allows three different levels for interface, Beginner, Medium and Expert (called UI Levels, depending on which one is selected the interface offers less or more options and menus)."


 

Firefly Extension Turns Firefox into a File Browser

Linux Today  Tue, 04/01/2008 - 07:30

Linux.com: "Nowadays, Web browsers can act as front ends to many other kinds of applications. For instance, if you want to browse and open the files on your hard drive from within Firefox, turn to the Firefly extension..."