As of March 2010, Google will not support older browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for its Google Docs and Google sites services. According to Google, they are stopping the support of older browser because old browsers cannot run many of the modern web application. Web is completely changes its all about web application not web pages or websites.
It think its a good move instead of supporting old web browsers companies should stop their application support for old browsers. These old browsers are also more vulnerable for security attacks. Recently a security flaw in Internet Explorer 6 is used by cyber criminals to steal data from Google Server.
Google encourage you to update your browsers as soon as possible. There are many choices:
Ajay Pathak
1 February 2010
Google
Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, google docs, Google Sites, IE 7, IE6, ie8, Mozilla, Opera, Safari
Internet Explorer 8 is the latest browser from Microsoft. IE8 comes with a very useful feature that help its users to determine which add-ons are slowing down IE page load and IE.
In Internet Explorer’s manage Add-on dialog there is a column called “Load Time”. This column show average time taken by each Add-on when you open a new tab or a new window.
To open the dialog, click Tools –> Manage Add-ons. You can sort the add-ons by load time by ungrouping them (right-click the column headers, then choose Group By –> None) and then clicking the Load time header
Microsoft has made some changes in IE8 installer, now if you running IE8 installer on a machine that is already have some other browser then in this case you will find that IE8 installer will offer you an option to set IE8 as your default browser and import settings from other browser.
The goal of the IE setup experience is to put IE users in control of their settings and respect existing defaults. IE will never install, or become the default browser without your explicit consent. However, we heard a lot of feedback from a lot of different people and groups and decided to make the user choice of the default browser even more explicit. This change is part of our ongoing commitment to user choice and control.
Specifically, users who install IE8 and have another browser set as the default will now see this panel as part of their first run experience:
download IE8
Microsoft confirmed that they are planning to push Internet explorer 8 to consumers who have Microsoft automatic updates enabled. Windows users can also download Internet Explorer from Microsoft website as stand alone software.
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NSS Labs published a report called “ Web Browser Security – Protection Against Socially Engineered Malware”.
NSS Labs results show that Microsoft internet Explorer RC1 able to catch 69% catch rate against Malware as compare to Apple Safari (24%) ,Mozilla Firefox v3.07(30%), Google Chrome v1.0.154916%), Opera v9.64(5%) and Microsoft IE7(4%). This data clearly show that Microsoft IE7 does not provide any protection against malware.
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Ajay Pathak
24 March 2009
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla
Apple, Browser SecuritySecuriy, Chrome, Firefox, Google, IE7, ie8, Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, Safari
Today Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer 8 will be available for download at noon EDT in 25 languages, including Arabic, Chinese (Traditional, Simplified and Hong Kong), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. More information and a download of Internet Explorer 8 (as of noon EDT on March 19) can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/ie8.
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Microsoft is in the process of releasing their latest browser that is Internet Explorer and just before the final release Microsoft published a report “Measuring the Performance of Browsers”. Published document explain the various benchmarking components and how they impact the performance, document also outline how to setup their own benchmarking environment to test browser performance. According to Microsoft browser performance test that their are several factors that can affect the performance of browser its really hard to test the actual performance of any web browser. There are many variables such as network latency, network congestion, and website traffic levels for “live” website tests that can affect measurements.
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Before releasing the final version of IE8 Microsoft has just released the release candidate of Internet Explorer. I think Microsoft want to give another build to testers before releasing the final version of Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft has also not said any thing about the release date of Internet Explorer 8 but people over the internet speculated that it may be sometime in April.
Windows users can download the Internet Explorer RC 1 from following links
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Beta2 has a keystroke logger suggestion tool similar to used by Google for its Google suggest feature. Unlike the Google Chrome IE8 keystroke feature is not enabled by default, IE8 beat2 users has to enable this feature. Microsoft does not enable Suggest site feature by default but they are asking using users whether they want to use Suggested feature or not after the IE8 beat2 installation. This makes a huge difference as compare to Google’s Chrome because Google Chrome enables this feature by default.Microsoft Suggested site privacy statement privacy statement does not provide any information how long Microsoft server will keep user data as compare to Google where Google has clearly mentioned that they will delete the user data after nine months. Only thing I like to see in this is that Microsoft has to make a clear statement how long they will kept user data.
Microsoft Suggested site privacy statement
Suggested Sites is an online experience designed to show you which websites you visit most, and to provide you with suggestions of other websites you might be interested in visiting. When you turn on Suggested Sites, your web browsing history is sent to Microsoft, where it is saved and compared to a frequently updated list of websites that are similar to ones you visit often. You can choose to pause or stop this feature from sending your web browsing history to Microsoft at any time. You can also delete individual entries from your history at any time. Deleted entries will not be used to provide you suggestions for other websites, although they will be retained by Microsoft for a period of time to help improve our products and services, including this feature. Any websites you visit while InPrivate Browsing is active will not be sent to Microsoft.
When Suggested Sites is turned on, the addresses of websites you visit are sent to Microsoft, together with some standard information from your computer such as IP address, browser type, and regional and language settings. To help protect your privacy, the information is encrypted when sent to Microsoft. Information associated with the web address, such as search terms or data you entered in forms might be included. For example, if you visited the Microsoft.com search website at http://search.microsoft.com and entered “Seattle” as the search term, the full address http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?q=Seattle&qsc0=0&FORM=QBMH1&mkt=en-US will be sent. Address strings might unintentionally contain personal information, but this information is not used to identify, contact or target advertising to you.
Statistics about your usage of Suggested Sites will also be sent to Microsoft such as the time that websites were visited, which Website referred you, and how you got there (e.g., by clicking a link or one of your Favorites). This information, along with the Website addresses and past history, will be used to personalize your experience, as well as improve the quality of our products and services. Microsoft will not use any information collected to identify, contact or target advertising to you.
How to turn on Suggested Sites:
- In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button.
- Click Suggested Sites. A check mark will indicate Suggested Sites is turned on.
How to turn off Suggested Sites:
- In Internet Explorer, click the Tools button.
- Click Suggested Sites to clear the check mark and turn Suggested Sites off.
Note: Turning off Suggested Sites does not clear your history.
To delete your browsing history (with or without turning off Suggested Sites), follow these steps:
- In Internet Explorer, click the Safety menu.
- Select Delete Browsing History
Consumers can now download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 version. IE8 is available in 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. In addition to English, IE8 Beta 2 is available in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), and German. Additional languages will be available soon.Internet Explorer 8 makes it easier to visit sites you’ve been to before with the new Smart Address bar and enhanced Favorites bar, works with your search provider to suggested likely searches based on what you type into the instant search box, groups tabs to match the way you browse the web and gives you Accelerators and Web Slices to keep you closer to the sites and services you use every day.
Internet Explorer 8 improves upon our protection against social engineering “phishing” attacks in Internet Explorer 8 because the new SmartScreen™ Filter helps protect against malware sites and downloads. Internet Explorer 8’s new Cross-Site Scripting Filter helps protect users against Cross-Site Scripting Type-1 reflection attacks, one of the most common attacks against websites. We have also introduced new features that help protect users’ privacy with an enhanced Delete Browsing History experience. InPrivate™ Browsing mode protects users’ privacy locally on their machine by not recording cookies, Temporary Internet Files and history while browsing. InPrivate™ Blocking gives users choice and control over their online privacy while respecting the value exchange of 3rd party content on the web.
The new Compatibility View mode in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 helps ensure that users can use all the sites they use today without display or functionality issues. Compatibility View represents a big improvement over “Emulate IE7” mode in Beta 1 because compatibility can now be set on a site by site basis rather than for the whole browser session and has been enhanced to be compatible with more sites. The new architecture of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 helps ensure that a single tab crashing does not cause users to lose their whole browser session, and crash recovery restores the crashed site and content. With new features to manage, enable and disable browser add-ons, users have better control over what code is running inside their browser and can easily disable toolbars or browser helper objects that are causing instability or performance issues.
IE8 Beta 2 includes a number of new features, such as:
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InPrivate™ Browsing: Enables users to browse the Web with greater confidence, without any evidence of searches or sites visited retained by the browser.
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InPrivate Blocking: Helps prevent third-parties that serve content on a Web page from tracking the user’s Web surfing activities.
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SmartScreen® Filter. Helps protect against phishing Web sites, and sites known to distribute malware.
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Performance improvements: Reduces the time that users must wait when starting the browser, opening a new tab, or loading a page.
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Enhanced “Find on this Page”: Enables users to find text on a Web page more easily, in a way that does not obscure any of the page’s content.
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Redesigned “New Tab” Page: Provides links to use an Accelerator, activate InPrivate browsing, reopen closed tabs, or restore the last browsing session.
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Enhanced Address Bar: Provides matches as the user types across History, Favorites, and RSS Feeds, searching against all parts of the URL string (and the page title) instead of just the beginning. Allows mistyped entries to be removed from the address bar
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Enhanced Tabbed Browsing: Tabs are grouped and color-coded so user can quickly discern which are related. Users can easily group or ungroup tabs, and can reopen closed tabs.
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Enhanced Instant Search Box: Real-time search suggestions (including images) and inclusion of Web sites in the user’s History make it easier to find content of interest.
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IE Gallery, launching with IE8 beta 2, is a place for you to share, rate and review Activities and Web Slices designed for Internet Explorer 8. Partners and publishers big and small can use it to share their own content and customers can use it to discover new ways to connect with their favorite web sites and services.
