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Set Gmail as the default Email client in Chrome

Some of us use Gmail most of the time and don’t use desktop Email application at all, in this situation if you click on a mailto: link in web pages or in applications it will take you to the system default client like Outlook which you don’t use. ... Read More →

Google Offers $1 million to find Exploits in Chrome

Google Chrome is racing ahead to become the most popular browser in the world, currently it holds second position in the browser war. Google Chrome is also most secure browser, one of the reason is the sandbox technology it uses to isolate browser from the operating system. ... Read More →

Opera Mobile 12 and Opera Mini Next released today

Opera Software has released today its popular mobile browser for Opera Mobile 12 for Android and Symbian, Opera Mini Next for beta testers and Opera Mini for iOS. Opera browser is not very popular on the desktop but they are pretty popular on mobile devices. ... Read More →

Mozilla’s BrowserID becomes Mozilla Persona

Mozilla has been working on a web identity system from last year, calling it BrowserID. BrowserID started as an easy way to sign into websites without registering at each and every website, similar to other login providers like Google and Facebook logins. BrowserID allows you to use single email ... Read More →

Google Chrome Password Generator

Google is working on a password generator for Chrome that will generate strong passwords automatically when a user attempts to register at a site. Google says passwords are not a very good form of authentication and one way to solve this problem is through browser sign in and OpenID, but convincing ... Read More →

German Federal Agency recommends Google Chrome

Google Chrome is the second most popular browser worldwide behind IE and just ahead of Firefox. It is one of the safest browsers out there. Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (Known as BSI in German Initials) recommends Chrome for Windows users in its best practice guidelines for ... Read More →

Firefox 10 released with developer tools and full-screen API

Mozilla launched version 10 of the popular browser Firefox that introduces in-built developer tools, a full-screen API for game developers and CSS 3D transforms. Firefox development is under fast phase in recent times. It came from version 4 to version 10 in just nine months and Firefox 13 which is ... Read More →

Firefox will get home tab and new tab page improvements

Firefox once a popular browser among net savvy users lost some of its charm to Google Chrome, thanks to some of the useful features in Google Chrome like new tab page features. Firefox home tab and new tab page are going to get new features in Firefox 13 builds, initially Extremetech reported that ... Read More →

Internet Explorer 10 preview

Microsoft has released the first preview of Internet Explorer 10 today at Mix 2011. It's not even a month Internet Explorer 9 is released and Microsoft already announced the IE10 preview, this proves that Microsoft is serious about the losing IE share. IE10 preview is available to download from ... Read More →