Practical Technology

After months of gaining Web browser market share, Google’s Chrome Web browser numbers have gone down according to Net Applications. It’s not however that Chrome has grown any less popular, it’s how Net Applications is measuring Web browser usage. Google’s Web browser, starting with Chrome 13, uses a technique called ‘pre-rendering’ to speed up Web [...]

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched the new and improved HTTPS Everywhere 2.0 for the Firefox browser . HTTPS Everywhere helps keeps you safe on the Web by encrypting connections to more than 1,400 Web sites. The program uses carefully crafted rules to automatically switch sites from HTTP to HTTPS whenever possible, This new [...]

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Google is putting its money where its Chrome Web browser is. In a Chromium blog posting Chris Evans and Justin Schuh, two members of the Chrome security team, announced that Google will be offering ‘multiple rewards per category, up to the $1 million limit, on a first-come-first served basis’ for demonstrated security breaches of Chrome [...]

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On President’s Day, February 20th, Microsoft accused Google of bypassing Internet Explorer’s privacy settings in a Microsoft Software Developer Network posting by Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President of IE. Google’s Rachel Whetstone, Senior Vice President of Communications and Policy, replied that, “Microsoft omitted important information from its blog post today.” Specifically, Whestone states that “Microsoft [...]

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Google’s been really busy lately. They may be releasing “G-Drive,” a personal cloud storage service ala Dropbox. They have released a beta of the Chrome Web browser for Android. And, with all that, their developers have also been hard at work keeping Chrome on top of the Web browser hill. Chrome 17, the latest and [...]

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