A new Site Specific Browser. Looks interesting...

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More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plugin to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers reported Monday. Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web users, and they are not controlled through the cookie privacy controls in a browser. That means even if a user thinks they have cleared their computer of tracking objects, they most likely have not. What’s even sneakier? Several services even use the surreptitious data storage to reinstate traditional cookies that a user deleted, which is called ‘re-spawning’ in homage to video games where zombies come back to life even after being “killed,”

The Linux version of Chrome has been coming along fairly quickly, the latest build of Chrome for Linux now works with Flash and has extension support. It is also possible to configure the options (although there are still some TODO stubs so setting a proxy isn’t possible). Tested under Ubuntu 9.04 64bit.

Forget the default browser, Choosy opens links in the right browser. When you click on a link Choosy will do the right thing, whether that's something simple (like using whatever browser is already running) or something complex (like prompting you to pick a browser, but only when you hold down the shift key and click on a link to google.com).

So, in an attempt to solve this problem and explore the possibility of ambient information in the browser, I’ve started a little experiment. It’s a Firefox Extension called “Ambient News”, and its goal is to provide the user with zero-cost news about the sites that they visit frequently. The extension requires no configuration; you just install it and see if it helps you out.

Flash is niet alleen de "tyfus" van het internet, het vormt ook een serieuze bedreiging voor de privacy van internetgebruikers, zo hebben onderzoekers ontdekt. De populaire browser plugin slaat sporen van browser sessies op en maakt die voor websites toegankelijk, waardoor de werking van een "pornoknop" wordt ondermijnd. Onderzoekster Katherine McKinley onderzocht hoe goed Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome en Internet Explorer de sporen van hun gebruikers kunnen wissen en wat voor informatie plugins zoals Flash en Google Gears achterlaten.

Google released a browser security handbook for Web developers that details the key security features of the main Web browsers. Released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, the document provides a comprehensive comparison of security features of the commonly used browsers; IE (version 6 and 7), Firefox (version 2 and 3), Safari, Opera, Chrome and the lesser known Android embedded browser.

The Apple Customer Privacy Policy says nothing about Safari sending any information to places other than the Web sites you’re visiting—but as of Safari 3.2, it does exactly that…If the URL of a page you want to visit matches the hash prefix of a known malicious page, Safari 3.2 appears to send that prefix to Google and ask for the entire 256-byte hash to make sure that this really is a malicious page (and also to verify that the page hasn’t been removed from Google’s lists since Safari’s last list update).

Experience the Web, GrApple style, with Firefox: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Firefox + GrApple gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the Web faster and nicer than any browser.

I’m a heavy tabbed browsing user - I have around 30 tabs open in my day-to-day Firefox profile all the time. Since the day Firefox 3 was released, I’ve noticed Firefox progressively getting slower with this particular Firefox profile (I use a different profile for web development). When it got to the point where changing tabs took a noticeable pause of 1-2 seconds, I tweaked some of Firefox’s session store and history preferences and now things are blazing fast again.

Glubble Family Edition for Firefox allows your child to freely discover the best of the web you choose with your family circle online.

People are calling Google Chrome a "Web Operating System" and a "Cloud Operating System". Some are even calling it a Windows killer. I think it's time to nip this horseshit in the bud, before it gets out of hand.

Chrome incorporates many of the sandboxing techniques developed by GreenBorder to protect its users. It is no longer possible for the modules that parse HTML and run Javascript to compromise the entire system. Google Chrome’s design is also reminiscent of the OP Browser (available here), which locks down browser components to prevent system-wide exploitation.

John Gruber highlights the important differences between Google's Chrome browser and Safari/Firefox.

Comic introducing Google's new browser.

Today we’re announcing the launch of Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.

Your favorite web applications have been running in a Browser for too long. They're trapped in tabs, crammed between a gossip column, driving directions and an image search for cats. With Bubbles, your web-apps are a click away. super-charged with new features like customized notification windows, even when your web-app is minimized.

"So what I did is I modified the SocialHistory JS so that it polled the browser to find out which of the Quantcast top 10k sites were visited. I then apply the ratio of male to female users for each site and with some basic math determine a guestimate of your gender." - Social web engineering, wtf!

This Firefox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. A commenter below (Chris) summed it up very well: “It’s a ’staging area’ for bookma

The issue is the color profile - the map of what color the monitor displays for a given pixel value. The standard for web graphics is sRGB, which describes a limited gamut of colors that almost any device can display. Professional imaging tools (like thos

Prism brings web apps to your desktop in a neat package.

Deb Richardson wrote up an interesting piece today describing color profile support in Firefox 3. The result of a color profile is a more-accurate mapping from an original set of colors to better match the intended rendering.

After years of refusing to install extensions in my browsers or proxies on my machine, I have, for the past few months, started to work seriously on blocking connections to ad servers. The reason? The increasing number of security issues linked to these a

NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default text zoom level, which is very useful if you have a small display or run at a very high resolution. NoSquint also remembers the zoom level per site (though you can disable that)

As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information.

Ajatus is a revolutionary CRM that runs as a local Ajax web application on your own computer.

Intelligent websites should tune-in to the content preferences of their visitors, tailoring a specific experience based on each visitor's favorite sites and services across the social web. In this post I will teach you how to mine the rich treasure trove

PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Photos will come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes well beyond the confines of the traditional browser window. With PicLens, browsing a

The Glubble Add-on for Firefox allows your child to freely discover the best of the web you choose with your family.*

If I could, I’d give you a special present this christmas - I’d tell you how to make IE on Windows behave like a grown-up browser. Sadly, reality sucks - as does IE on Windows - so I can only offer to share with you a couple of CSS tips to ease the pa

A greasemonkey script that enables you to post from Google Reader to del.icio.us

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements incl

Extend Basecamp Project Management with this time saving firefox extension.

Third-party extensions for the Epiphany browser (for Linux).

Instructions to install & configure Opera 9.20 in Ubuntu

today we've got our top 10 list of unauthorized and unofficial but hella-useful apps that make Gmail that much better.

# Glubble Trusted Surfing for children under 12 years of age enables families to be sure they only see the best of the web they choose to allow. # Glubble Altered Search makes Google and Yahoo show results from childrens trusted Glubbleworld instead of th

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, saved passwords. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines/sessions.

The Duplicate Tab Firefox extension allows you to clone a tab with its history and place the duplicate tab in a new window or in the current window. And it allows you to merge all tabs from different windows in one window.

Hate it when websites take it on themselves to resize your browser window? We do. Here are four simple steps to make sure that these Webdev control freaks never resize your Firefox window again

Get the script, and install different versions of MS Internet Explorer under Linux, using the Wine Windows emulator.