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Microsoft has finally gone ahead and released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. This release is aimed at Web Developers and Testers to understand what Microsoft has in store.
Considering that the browser is still so fresh, an emulate Internet Explorer 7 button has been put in to browse the web similar to using Internet Explorer 7.
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Posted by Ajay under Browsers, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Software, Tech News
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Having released a Snap Shots addon for Firefox three weeks back, the Snap team is out with an addon for Internet Explorer.
The Snap Shots Add-On for IE version works on IE 6.0 and 7.0.

Download Snap Shots for Internet Explorer

Posted by Ajay under Internet Explorer, Software, Tech News
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If you’re on a Mac or you have already upgraded to Internet Explorer 7, then you’ll be pretty lost about how your site looks like on lower versions of Internet Explorer.
For me this is a big problem because half my visitors to my several sites are still using IE6 and you have to admit that [...]

Posted by Ajay under Browsers, Internet Explorer, Photos, Services, Techtites Daily, Tuesday
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Internet Explorer 7 is indeed one of the better releases of the browser. It corrected a lot of things and made is developer and userfriendly. The best addition to the browser was the Tab Browsing. I would have loved to have more features like adblocking and mouse gestures, but I guess that wasn’t meant to [...]

Posted by Ajay under Browsers, Internet Explorer, Software, Techtites Daily, Tuesday, Utilities
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about:blank as many of you will just open a blank page. By default Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera are set to open up a webpage on connecting to the internet.
Most of the time you won’t be interested in opening that default page. The result is unncessary wastage of bandwidth. This gets severe if you are [...]

Posted by Ajay under Browsers, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Techtites Daily, Thursday, Tips and Tutorials
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The major focus on Internet Explorer 7 has been security and particularly the phishing filter.

In a recent article, Microsoft has stated:
When you use Windows Internet Explorer 7 to visit a Web page, the computer may respond very slowly as the Phishing Filter evaluates Web page contents.
The reason is this happens is if you have too [...]

Posted by Ajay under Browsers, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Tech News
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In a recent Security Advisory, Adobe has stated that a critical vulnerabilty in an ActiveX Control used in Internet Explorer could allow malicious hackers to use Adobe’s Reader and Acrobat software to launch PC hijack attacks
Affected software versions
Adobe Reader, Acrobat Standard and Professional 7.0.0 through 7.0.8 on the Windows platform when using Internet Explorer.
Solution

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Posted by Ajay under Internet Explorer, Security, Software
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Just when we were settling into the so called more secure versions of the two most popular browsers, Robert Chapin has stated that both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 are vulnerable to what he dubbed as a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR.
An exploit for this flaw has already been seen on social-networking site MySpace.com [...]

Posted by Ajay under Browsers, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Security, Software, Tech News
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How to Create performed an extensive browser speed test. Several browsers were tested across MacOS, Windows and Linux to reveal astonishing results (?)
The browsers were tested based on several parameters including Cold Start, Warm Start, CSS Rendering, Table Rendering, Script Speed, loading Images and loading pages from History.
I can’t comment on the results observed on [...]

Posted by Ajay under Browsers, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera
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Secunia Research has found yet another flaw in Internet Explorer 7.
The problem is that a website can inject content into another site’s window if the target name of the window is known. This can e.g. be exploited by a malicious website to spoof the content of a pop-up window opened on a trusted website.
This follows [...]

Posted by Ajay under Browsers, Internet Explorer, Security, Software
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