Convert your firefox favorites and feeds into IE7 with "Firefox To IE7"
My friend blake, who runs windowscoding.com, has just posted this really useful application to his blog..
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30.7.2006 Microsoft: Less Vulnerabilites in IE7 compared to Firefox
Microsoft today published a report that evaluates the security performance of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox through a detailed comparative look at vulnerabilities.
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1.12.2007 Microsoft: IE6 vs. IE7 vs. IE7 in Vista
As in the case of the inhouse competition between Windows XP and Windows Vista, due to its prolonged support strategy, Microsoft is also one of its most fierce and stubborn competitors on the browser market.
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6.12.2007 Firefox vs. Internet Explorer, Ahead of IE8 and Firefox 3.1
For the past couple of years Internet Explorer has been on a downward spiral, albeit slow, but inching down with every passing month, with only Firefox to blame.
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2.12.2008 Memory test - Firefox 2.0.0.9 vs Firefox 3.0 b 1
Does Firefox 3.0 beta 1 do a better job of handling memory than earlier versions? In a test put Firefox 3.0 beta up against Firefox 2.0.0.9 in a series of tests.
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21.11.2007 Why Windows is less secure than Linux ?
Windows is inherently harder to secure than Linux. There I said it. The simple truth.
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15.4.2006 Vista Most Secure OS
Microsoft has applauded Vista from the get go as the most secure Windows platform, but according to a comparison put together by Jeff Jones, Security Strategy Director in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, the status quo is also valid for rival operating systems.
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23.6.2007 One year later, Vista really is more secure
Windows Vista was released to manufacturing a year ago next week, and landed on retail shelves exactly nine months ago today. To mark the occasion, I dragged a system out of mothballs and installed the original RTM version of Vista Ultimate on it. (Well, OK, I also needed a test bed for some upcoming work, but still…)
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31.10.2007 Vista is still more secure than XP
Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP (see “One year later, Vista really is more secure”).
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28.7.2008 Microsoft: Vista's Secure, Not Perfect
Last week's disclosure of a zero-day vulnerability in Windows Vista doesn't put a lie to the claim that it's the safest Microsoft operating system so far, a company security manager has said.
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29.12.2006 WPA Encryption No Longer Secure
Security researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck have succeeded in partially cracking the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption, which until now had been considered safe.
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7.11.2008 Microsoft Finds (Random) Way to Secure Vista
A security feature used in the open-source world is now helping to harden Windows Vista against buffer overrun exploits.
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31.5.2006 Windows Vista Secure Development Lifecycle
The true question about Windows Vista security is are users going to experience the same improvements over Windows XP, as Windows Server 2003 delivered over Windows Server 2000.
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26.2.2007 Microsoft partner: Vista less secure than XP
Security company Kaspersky claimed that Vista's User Account Control (UAC), the system of user privileges that can be used to restrict users' administrative rights, will be so annoying that users will disable it.
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23.3.2007 LockCrypt 1.50 - Secure Password Management
LockCrypt is a free account management program which uses high strength AES encryption to encrypt your data, so only you can access it.
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12.5.2008 Secure and Beautify Your Windows Operating System
The following article will provide its readers with the necessary software to enhance and secure their operating system.
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8.6.2008 Hacker: Snow Leopard less secure than Windows
As reported by Techworld, Snow Leopard, Apple's highly anticipated new operating system, lacks basic security features that are found in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 says Charlie Miller, a noted security researcher.
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17.9.2009 NSA Helped Microsoft Make Vista Secure
Microsoft has confirmed that the U.S. government agency best known for eavesdropping on telephone calls had a hand in the development of the Windows Vista operating system.
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12.1.2007 Contest winner: Vista more secure than Mac OS
Dino Dai Zovi, the New York-based security researcher who took home $10,000 in a highly-publicized MacBook Pro hijack on April 20, has been at the center of a week’s worth of controversy about the security of Apple’s operating system.
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1.5.2007 Office 2007 Service Pack 2 More Secure than SP1
In order to support applauding the security enhancements in Windows Vista, Microsoft has played the vulnerability counting game on more than one occasion, comparing the volume of security flaws in the latest edition of the Windows client with previous releases, and even with Linux and Mac OS X.
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27.11.2008 Windows Vista More Secure than XP When It Comes to Infected MP3 Players
The recent avalanche of threats proved us that many, if not the majority of threats attempt to spread themselves by copying their files on clean removable drives connected to an infected computer.
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4.1.2008 Vista SP2 and Windows 7 More Secure than Linux and Mac OS X Leopard
Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is the absolute apex in security when it comes down to operating systems, Kevin Turner, chief operating officer for Microsoft, has indicated at the Midmarket CIO Summit earlier this week.
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12.4.2009 Are You Protected? - Design and Deploy Secure Web Apps with ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.0
Web applications are among the most common computing services that are exposed to the Internet, and thus they pose an inviting target to anyone who wants to break into your network to steal sensitive information, tamper with your data, or otherwise compromise your system.
Ensuring the security of a Web application is a serious task, and requires consideration throughout the design, development, deployment, and operation phases. It should not be viewed as something that can be slapped onto an existing application, or achieved simply by applying existing platform security features.
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IE7 features
Internet Explorer 7: Now in beta testing for developers
The first stage of the beta process for Internet Explorer 7 has begun?developer testing! The latest version of the world?s most popular Web browser has been released for technical evaluation, feedback, and testing by software and Web site developers.
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The First Year of IE7
It’s been a little over a year since we released IE7 on Windows XP and for Windows Vista, so I thought it would be worthwhile to talk about where we are after the year.
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3.12.2007 IE7 Security features
All web browsers make security decisions based upon URIs. Many security features, from Security Zones to the JavaScript same-origin policy, depend on the browser being able to consistently evaluate URIs to determine their components, and to compare them to other URIs.
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IE7 getting the Google treatment
For those of you who have downloaded Windows Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview you might get a surprise when visiting the Google.com webpage.
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9.2.2006 Screenshots IE7 push
Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites shortly after the final version of Internet Explorer 7 is released (planned for the 4th quarter of 2006). I
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31.7.2006 Three million of IE7 in first 4 days
IEBLOG: In the first four days over three million of you have already downloaded the final release.
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25.10.2006 Microsoft Update now works with IE7
When
Internet Explorer 7 Beta released to testers it left testers with a broken Windows Update that wouldn't load properly, disabling the ability to update Windows with critical patches that have been released since the end of July. This seems to of been fixed and on my PC it even redirects to Microsoft Update before my chosen homepage is loaded.
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Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?
Whatever Firefox 2.0 is, it
isn't "sweeping," and
nowhere does that fact become
more evident than in a Windows
Vista test environment. We
started up both IE7 and FF2 in
Vista, and were left
wondering, will Firefox users
be happy using their browser
in Vista without the
degree of changes they'd
experience with IE7?..
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26.10.2006Firefox 2: 2 Million Downloads in a Day
Mozilla said that downloads
for the second version of its
Firefox browser reached two
million in the first 24 hours,
or more than 30 downloads per
second. Microsoft recently
announced that IE7 was
downloaded 3 million times in
four days...
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30.10.2006Neowin Asks: Who can't upgrade to IE7?
As most Neowin visitors know
by now, Windows Internet
Explorer 7 was released this
week. While there are probably
a few of you who will not
upgrade immediately because
you use another browser
(Firefox, Opera, etc) the
question of the day is... are
those, the people like you out
there who cannot
upgrade to IE7?
I
can't, at least not at work.
The private university I work
for has multiple programs that
simply will not function on
systems with IE7 installed on
them. As reflected in a letter
sent our by my boss to our
campus, "these vendors
continue to work toward
support, but it will likely be
January or February of 2007
before that support becomes
official."
While I
in no way blame Microsoft for
this -- these vendors, Cisco
being among them, have had
ample time to test the IE7
beta and RCs -- the fact of
the matter is our organization
cannot allow systems to be
upgraded on our campus, even
student machines (which
require a school issued Cisco
program to access our network,
that program breaks with
IE7.)
Are there
programs that you or your
company use that have forced
you to stay at IE6? Please
comment and share.
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20.10.2006Microsoft Picks Firefox RSS
icon for IE7
Revamped browser will
identify, support feeds in
standard way after all...
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19.12.2005HP, Mozilla Create Virtual Browser to Secure Corporate Desktops
Hewlett-Packard, Mozilla and Symantec present a virtual browser called the HP Firefox Virtual Browser, which will be first featured on a new HP
desktop called the HP Compaq dc7900. The HP Firefox Virtual Browser creates a secure virtualization layer that captures malware and viruses and lets
the user purge the malware from the desktop. HP will offer the HP Firefox Virtual Browser in all its business desktops by year's end.
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09.09.2008Safari 4 beta released, Apple claims speed boosts
Apple has been working on the next major upgrade to their Safari web browser for both Mac and Windows PC to improve speed, reliability, and stability.
The browser is announced to be up to 3 times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla's Firefox 3. Safari 4 comes loaded with
the new Nitro Engine for javascript to help browsers execute scripts faster. Apple announced the web browser can execute
javascript 30 times faster than IE7 and 3 times faster than Firefox 3. The browser can also load HTML pages 3 times faster than IE7 and 3
times faster than Firefox 3.
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24.02.2009Interview: Microsoft Exec
Talks IE7, RSS
Following a decision to
release a standalone version
of IE7, browser development at
Microsoft has come fast and
furious. BetaNews this week
sat down with Gary Schare,
Director of IE Product
Management, to discuss the
changes coming in IE7,
Firefox's growth, and how
Microsoft will bring RSS to
the mainstream...
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18.02.2006Microsoft Announces IE7+ for
Vista
In order to differentiate
between Internet Explorer 7 on
Windows XP and Vista,
Microsoft on Friday announced
"IE7+." The special
branding is designed to
highlight the additional
features IE7 will receive in
Vista, including Protected
Mode, parental controls, and
improved network diagnostics...
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27.05.2006IE7 to Beef Up Secure Web
Surfing
Internet Explorer 7 will come
with several security
enhancements to HTTPS
connections, a Microsoft
program manager said on the IE
Blog over the weekend. Chief
among the changes is the
disabling of the SSLv2
protocol by default in favor
of the stronger-encryption
available through TSLv1...
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26.10.2005Firefox, Mac Not Immune to
Flaws, Viruses
Symantec has some bad news for
Macintosh and Mozilla users.
According to a recent report
by the security firm, neither
Mac OS X nor Firefox is as
secure as proponents claim. In
fact, Mozilla led all browsers
in terms of disclosed security
flaws...
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20.09.2005Google Chrome is insanely fast ¦ faster than Firefox 3.0
Google Chrome is fast ¦ insanely fast ¦ faster than Firefox 3.0.
Heres Chrome vs. Firefox 3.0.1 vs IE7 vs. IE8b2 in a
head-to-head shootout running the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark.
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03.09.2008Firefox eclipses IE6 in web share, threatens IE7
Firefox 3 has become the first non-Microsoft web browser to overtake Internet Explorer 6 in market share, according to new data from
StatCounter. The open source browser climbed to 24
percent of users in February while IE6 dipped to just over 22.6 percent, making Firefox the second most popular browser by individual version.
Although Internet Explorer 7 still leads with 40.8 percent, the Firefox increase narrows the gap as Microsoft's browser has remained largely flat
since at least July.
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05.03.2009Verisign plugin brings green address bars to Firefox
Verisign has brought a
new technology used to
identify trusted Web sites to
the Firefox browser.
The Internet services
vendor has released a Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
US/firefox/addon/4828>plugin
that will show the same type
of green address bar that is
displayed by Internet Explorer
7 when it lands on certain
highly trusted Web sites that
use EV SSL (Extended
Validation Secure Sockets
Layer) certificates.
Companies like Verisign,
Entrust, and Network Solutions
have been issuing these
certificates since late 2006,
but browser makers have been
slower to adopt them. They
were adopted by Internet
Explorer 7 in late January,
and Firefox is expected to
support the certificates in
Firefox 3.0, expected late
this year...
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19.05.2007Is there a new remote data execution exploit for IE7?
All that anyone knows for certain as of today is that there are some browsers that appear to be the victim of new attacks using a very old profile:
embedded binary code for graphic objects appearing in IE7 Web pages...
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11.12.2008Popular add-ons to Firefox are the latest criminal attack vector
Mozilla enjoys a large
development community to build
add-ons for its Firefox
browser. Now it seems all that
development might not be a
good thing. A security
researcher in Indiana has
found that the process used to
update some of these add-ons
automatically appears to be
flawed, allowing criminal
hackers to intercept the
browser's call to the
developer to see if there's a
new version available. Worse,
the most vulnerable add-ons
aren't from vendors you've
never heard of; they include
Google, Yahoo, Facebook,
LinkedIn, and other big names.
Extensions for
Firefox contain hard coded
Internet addresses for
updates. Mozilla provides free
hosting for update at
addons.mozilla.org, however,
many developers choose for
various reasons to serve the
updates themselves from
servers under their control.
The servers at
Mozilla all use the secure
https:// protocol, but since
encryption requires more
resources, many developers opt
to use the less secure, less
resource intensive http://
instead. That's where the
problem lies. ..
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31.05.2007Mozilla CEO speaks out on future of Firefox
APC Magazine in Australia has
posted an 8,000 word interview
with Mozilla CEO Mitchell
Baker about where Firefox came
from and where it's going.
Baker talks about putting
Firefox on mobile phones and
pocket devices; plans to get
into open source graphic and
video rendering to compete
with Flash and Silverlight;
where the $55million a
year Firefox earns comes from;
the struggle with patents in
the software industry; why
many more businesses are
recontemplating moving to
Firefox rather than dealing
with the upgrade to IE7, and
why Mozilla hasn't yet built
an ad-blocker into Firefox.
She also talks about how
Firefox 3.0 will have a lot
more capability around
"branding" - will it be the
corporate visual theming
disaster that was IE4? And how
Mozilla's small development
office in New Zealand is
developing the ability to run
web abbs in Firefox without an
internet connection. And a
cartoon character, "Foxkeh"
that has been created to make
Firefox more approachable in
the Japanese market.
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07.05.2007Download This: Keep Your PC
Safe and Efficient
Secure your Firefox/Mozilla
browser and your messages, and
shrink files down to size...
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05.12.2005Firefox Fans Patch Faithfully
Security vendor Secunia ApS is
reporting that users of
Mozilla Firefox are more
likely to have installed the
latest security updates than
Web surfers running Internet
Explorer or Opera. This can be
explained with the fact users
have to choose to use Firefox,
possibly because they find the
browser more secure, and the
built-in updater within the
open-source browser.
Secunia's analysis is based
on more than 350,000 software
checks, performed over the
past five months by its free
Secunia Software Inspector
service.
According
to Secunia, 5.19% of all
Firefox 2 users had missed
security updates. For IE6,
which is used by nearly half
of all Web surfers, that
number was 9.61%. Microsoft's
latest IE7 browser had a
number much closer to
Firefox's results: 5.40%.
Opera was the least likely to
be patched: 11.96% of all
Opera 9.x browsers were
missing updates. Secunia also
found that 28% of all programs
on PCs it scanned were not
fully updated, meaning
browsers are much more likely
to be patched than other types
of software.
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18.05.2007'We're Huge in Finland!' Firefox Hits New High as IE7 Lags
Mozilla Firefox continued its slow but steady march against the worldwide dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer in 2007. Though the open-source web
browser continues to sit firmly in second place behind IE, where it's been for years, usage of Firefox is still on the rise. The browser is even
threatening to tip the scales in some European countries -- most likely thanks to the rapid internationalization efforts made possible by the
open-source development model.
New data from the French internet traffic analysis company XiTi Monitor shows Firefox jumped a few
percentage points in several countries during 2007. Finland is the most Firefox-friendly country. The browser enjoys a 45% share there. Poland,
Slovenia and Hungary are also in the 40s. Germany leads Western Europe with a 34% share. Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and the outlying islands) is
the continent with the most Firefox users. The share in 2007 hit 31.1% down under.
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29.01.2008Microsoft: Less Vulnerabilites in IE7 compared to Firefox
Microsoft today published a report that evaluates the security performance of Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox through a detailed comparative
look at vulnerabilities. The “Web Browser Vulnerability Analysis” report finds that over a period of three years, Internet Explorer proved
to have fewer vulnerabilities than Mozilla Firefox. The report research, conducted by Jeff Jones, Security Strategy Director in Microsoft’s
Trustworthy Computing group, examines in detail the volume and severity of vulnerabilities in the two browsers and includes these key findings:
• Microsoft has fixed 87 total vulnerabilities (across all supported versions of Internet Explorer) while Mozilla has fixed 199
vulnerabilities in supported Firefox products
• Internet Explorer experienced a lower volume of reported vulnerabilities across
all categories of severity (high, medium, low)
Microsoft quitely announced the findings via the IE Blog.
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