Microsoft has rushed out a patch to fix a serious zero-day exploit that was discovered last week. After urging users to stop using Internet Explorer they released the patch to fix it. It should be coming through automatic updates and others can download it from here.
Google Chrome is no longer beta, yes you heard right a Google product that isn’t beta. After only being beta for 3 and 1/2 months Google removed the beta tag with the release of 1.0 Thursday. It appears that Google has been busy improving their browser, it’s now 1.4 times faster processing JavaScript. Many popular plugins are also said to run faster. Another area of improvement was with the bookmark management, this was a sore area with some users who like to export and organize their bookmarks which now they can. The privacy options have also been improved.
Source: InformationWeek
Download Chrome: GoogleBlog
The newest beta for Firefox was announced Monday. The biggest new feature is the Private Browsing mode, which for the paranoid is a welcome improvement as it doesn’t keep any traces of your activity on the browser. It has focused on improving on standards compliance. It scored 93/100 on the Acid3 web standards test. For reference Firefox 3.0.4 scored 71/100 and IE 6 a mesealy 12/100. Other improvements are:
From limited testing on my part it does seem a little snappy and it doesn’t eat up nearly as much memory. Get the beta here: Mozilla Developer Center
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