Private browsing mode doesn’t offer complete privacy, but it does prevent your browser from saving your history, searches, cookies, and other private data between browsing sessions. You can have your browser always start in private-browsing mode if you prefer it.
Most people won’t want to use private-browsing mode permanently. You will have to log into the websites you use each time you open your browser, as your browser won’t save the cookies that keep your login state.
“Who Is the New King of the Web?”, the big question which will be answered by the battle of the browsers – if that’s for real or maybe if web browsers are warriors who are fighting for their territory. Well, since that is not the case, people like you who are excited about this browser war might want to take a look the other factor such as speed, usability or user experience, performance, features, privacy, security and more.
Trying to get work done on the computer can sometimes take longer than you think, and it’s not because of the workload – it’s because you’re constantly checking your Facebook, catching up with a friend on Gchat, and following your Twitter feed. In other words, you’re procrastinating. If that’s the case, there’s no judgment here. We know how easy it is to fall victim to the Sirens that lure you in with cute cat videos. If you’re a Chrome user, we come bearing potential solutions.
There are several free Chrome extensions you can use to boost your productivity throughout the day, and we rounded up eight of our favorite picks.
The internet is a vital part of our lives. Just like your car, body, and robot underlings, your internet connection can be fine-tuned and made to work more efficiently. With just a little bit of effort, your surfing experience can be noticeably improved.
The Internet is a dangerous, virus-infested place. Today's most popular Web browsers claim they are chock full of protections to keep you safe.
Some of the browser vendors get a little testy about each others' proclamations about who can protect you better.
For instance, Microsoft loves to tout a quarterly security shootout, performed by NSS Labs, which tends to find a weakness in its competitor's browsers. Its latest found that Internet Explorer's security blocked 95 percent of the bad stuff on the Web while Chrome blocks 33 percent, and Safari and Firefox block less than 6 percent.
This infographic is will sharing web browser trends and screen resolution trends beetwen 2008 and 2012. Internet Explorer dominated the web browser war in 2008, and become major browser on about 50% of all screens in the world. Google chrome usage has exploded since 2008, and now in 2012 is just behind firefox in total usage Internet explorer has faced a steep fall, and is now behind Chrome and Firefox. This Infographic also show how screen resolution has evolved since 2008.
With OS X Mountain Lion, Apple rolled out a new version of Safari that gives Chrome and Firefox a run for their money.
It took the best from Chrome and Firefox and then added some.
Here are the new reasons to switch (back) to Safari.
Because of how far certain Web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 have brought us, many would say that—from a Web platform perspective—the future is now. Sounds like a cliché, I know. At the very least, it feels like the future is starting to bubble up to the surface… but it’s just not quite there yet.
Your iPad is a very personal device that holds a ton of sensitive information. Every now and then, to protect your privacy, you should clear out the browsing information stored on your iPad.
If you don't want others to know what you've been looking at on your iPad all day, watch the video below. It will show you how you can protect your browsing privacy by clearing the history, cookies, and data on your iPad...
Chrome Vice President Brian Rakowski announced (and Tweeted) Chrome for iPhone and iPad (free, App Store) at Google I/O 2012 today in San Francisco.
According to reportage by The Verge Chrome for iOS will require iOS 4.3 or higher and will support Chrome sync. Blurry photos of the slideware don’t provide many more details other than the fact that it’s strikingly similar to Chrome for Android. No surprises there.
Possibly the most newsworthy part of the announcement is the fact that Chrome for iOS is available today.
Although it has a lot of potential for Chrome users on the desktop, I primarily use Safari on OS X and like its iCloud bookmark syncing. Plus iOS 6 is adding iCloud tab syncing which will be an added bonus.
The final version of Firefox for Android was released today.
Previously, the popular browser was in a Beta release.
The app brings mobile speed and security to your favorite Android-powered device.
What we really like about the app is it's ability to take advantage of add-ons giving you a more desktop like experience.
While we think that this is a solid release from Firefox the app still leaves something to be desired. We like Firefox but the app for Android really doesn't separate it from the pack. We prefer Chrome.
Each major web browser shares a large number of keyboard shortcuts in common. Whether you’re using Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, or Opera – these keyboard shortcuts will work in your browser.
Each browser also has some of its own, browser-specific shortcuts, but learning the ones they have in common will serve you well as you switch between different browsers and computers. This list includes a few mouse actions, too.
It appears that Google Chrome finally overtook Microsoft Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser last week—at least according to statistics fromthe web analytics service Statcounter. As TNW points out, measuring this kind of usage is hardly a perfect science, but as you can see from the trend line in the graph above, this is the way things have been going for some time now. Rats! Just when Internet Explorer was starting to get good.
Looking for a job, searching for a divorce lawyer, researching a medical condition or commenting on sensitive political issues that you don’t want anyone to know about? Or maybe you're using a public network in a hotel or coffee shop. How do you keep others from seeing your browsing history or tracking what you're doing on the Web?
When considering Web "privacy," there are two pieces that matter. The first is anonymity: how to keep people from knowing what sites you're visiting. The second is privacy: how to keep people from accessing the information you send. Depending on your circumstances, you may care about protecting one or both of these pieces.
As AOL, in the equivalent of selling sperm to pay the cable bill, offloaded a billion dollar's worth of patents to Microsoft, something strange happened: the latter became the owner of Netscape. Remember Netscape? The browser. From 1994. A steal!
Most people don't like Internet Explorer. In fact, most internet users (i.e., all of us) think that it sucks! We all know it, and now Microsoft has officially admitted this fact.
So for the launch of IE9, and in a bid to make a comeback against Firefox and Chrome, Microsoft is confronting that criticism head-on with a hefty dose of humor.
Google is offering up to $1 million in total bounties for hackers who can find security exploits in its Chrome browser. There's no better way for the Chrome team to shore up security problems than by inviting people to point them out. The contest will convene at Chrome's table at the CanSecWest security conference from March 7-9.
There are three tiers of rewards, all for bugs in the Windows environment. A full exploit of bugs in Chrome itself will net you $60,000, a partial exploit that combines a Chrome bug with other bugs gets $40,000, and the consolation prize is $20,000 an exploit of Chrome using bugs in Flash, Windows or something else. All winners also get a Chromebook.
Google’s Chrome browser and Android mobile operating system went public in the same year but they haven’t converged until now. Google is finally introducing Chrome for Android, a beta which is limited to Android 4.0 devices.
The fact that Chrome will be limited to just about 1 percent of Android devices is a disappointment, but we should see Chrome proliferate on more smartphones and handsets as devices are upgraded to Android 4.0 and consumers buy new Ice Cream Sandwich hardware. The Android version of Chrome features a re-imagined tab system, fast browsing using one finger flicks and auto complete for searches and URLs. Chrome will pre-load sites it thinks you may visit. And there’s also a new system of previewing links by zooming in, making it easier to click-through.
It's been a long wait, and finally Chrome for Android is here - albeit with one serious condition: it's for devices running Ice Cream Sandwich only.
Today Google finally introduced Chrome for Android after three long, impatient years. It’s now available as a beta release for smartphones and tablets running Ice Cream Sandwich – which, unfortunately is incredibly limited. Right now that means that only the Galaxy Nexus and Wi-Fi only Xoom tablets will be able to access Chrome.
Mozilla, the maker of of Firefox, today announced that it has struck a new three-year deal with Google in which Google will remain the default search engine in the browser.
The financial terms were not disclosed, but reaching a new deal with Google has been seen as critical for Mozilla, a Silicon Valley nonprofit software maker.
