SmartAboutThings tipped us off to an interesting bug reported by ZDNet Thursday: For the fourth time in three months, a Symantec security product is crashing user apps, and this time it’s the latest Chrome release, v78, which rolled out earlier this week, on Tuesday, October 22. According to reports on Reddit [1, 2] the Google support forums [1, 2], and in…
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Germany’s Cybersecurity Agency Recommends Firefox As Most Secure Browser
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: Firefox is the only browser that received top marks in a recent audit carried out by Germany’s cyber-security agency — the German Federal Office for Information Security (or the Bundesamt fur Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik — BSI). The BSI tested Mozilla Firefox 68 (ESR), Google Chrome 76, Microsoft Internet Explorer 11, and Microsoft…
Microsoft Might Bring Its Edge Browser To Linux
Microsoft appears to be porting its Edge browser to Linux, reports ZDNet: “We on the MS Edge Dev team are fleshing out requirements to bring Edge to Linux, and we need your help with some assumptions,” wrote Sean Larkin, a member of Microsoft’s Edge team…. Chrome, of course, is already available for Linux, so Microsoft should be able to deliver Chromium-based…
Microsoft Is Killing EPUB Support In Edge Classic
Microsoft is killing support for the EPUB document format in Edge classic, and it won’t be supported in the new, Chromium-based version of Microsoft Edge. Thurrott reports: “Download an .epub app to keep reading,” a notification in Edge classic reads when you load an EPUB document. “Microsoft Edge will no longer be supporting [sic] e-books that use the .epub file extension….
Microsoft Word Hits 1 Billion Installs on Google Play
Microsoft Word reached over 1 billion installations on Android over the weekend. Microsoft’s flagship document editor is arguably Microsoft’s greatest success story on Android. With over 1 billion downloads, Microsoft Word is one of the most used productivity apps on the platform. From a report: Microsoft has continued to push Office on Android along with other apps like Your Phone, Microsoft…
Ask Slashdot: What’s Your ‘Backup’ Browser?
Slashdot’s gotten over 17,000 votes in its poll about which web browser people use on their desktop. (The current leader? Firefox, with 53% of the vote, followed by Chrome with 30%.) But Slashdot reader koavf asks an interesting follow-up question: “What’s everyone’s go-to Plan B browser and why?” To start the conversation, here’s how James Gelinas (a contributor at Kim Komando’s…
Google Forces Microsoft Edge Preview Users To Use Chrome For Modern YouTube Experience
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Thurrott: Microsoft started testing a new Microsoft Edge browser based on Chromium a little while ago. The company has been releasing new canary and dev builds for the browser over the last few weeks, and the preview is actually really great. But if you watch YouTube quite a lot, you will face a new…
Microsoft Launches First Edge Preview Builds For Mac Users
Microsoft today announced the launch of a preview or canary build of its Microsoft Edge browser designed for the macOS operating system. Microsoft Edge for macOS can be installed from the Microsoft Edge Insider site on compatible Macs. MacRumors reports: Microsoft says that the initial build available today includes several interface changes to meld the Microsoft design language with the design…
Did Google Sabotage Firefox and IE?
Firefox’s former VP accused Google of sabotaging Firefox — for example, when Gmail and Google Docs “started to experience selective performance issues and bugs on Firefox” and demo sites “would falsely block Firefox as ‘incompatible’… There were dozens of oopses. Hundreds maybe… [W]hen you see a sustained pattern of ‘oops’ and delays from this organization — you’re being outfoxed.” Now Nightingale’s…
Unexpected Protection Added To Microsoft Edge Subverts IE Security
Dan Goodin writes via Ars Technica: A researcher has uncovered strange and unexpected behavior in Windows 10 that allows remote attackers to steal data stored on hard drives when a user opens a malicious file downloaded with the Edge browser. The threat partially surfaced last week when a different researcher, John Page, reported what he called a flaw in Internet Explorer….