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• Microsoft Issues Security Advisory on IE Vulnerability Microsoft has issued a security advisory that provides customers with guidance and workarounds for dealing with a zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer.
• New Attack Fells Internet Explorer Symantec says that an unpatched flaw affecting IE 7 and IE 6 has been made public.
• Google Chrome OS on the PC World Podcast PC World editors Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, Melissa Perenson, and Nick Mediati discuss the potential impact of Google Chrome OS on the computing industry. This is PC World Podcast episode 54.
• Microsoft's Thoroughly Modern IE9? Browser will get a faster JavaScript and HTML5 support, but we don't know what it will look like, or when it will arrive.
• When Bad Things Happen to Good Products Ten major upgrades that went awry, the consumer revolts they prompted, and how the products involved recovered--or didn't.
• Internet Explorer 9 Wish List We may get a peek at the next-gen browser at Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference today.
• Flash Player 10.1 Speeds Up Netbooks, Nettops Got a netbook? Flash Player 10.1 may ease your pain by letting you stream HD video.
• Guess Who's Hawking Internet Explorer Now? Redmond makes a smart move, hiring country music fixture Dolly Parton to pitch IE8 and its Web Slices feature.
• Firefox Claims a Quarter of Browsers Used Mozilla announced it has achieved a goal, luring one in four Internet users to its browser, despite Microsoft's dominance.
• Automatically Copy Selected Text with AutoCopy Best Firefox add-on ever? Maybe not, but it's definitely in the top 10. Copying text has never been easier.
• Google's Secret Chrome Plan for Browser Domination The SPDY Project is Google's newest weapon in the browser wars, but the "do no evil" folk may share.
• Google Aims for Faster Web Downloads With SPDY Protocol Google is hoping to make the web up to twice as fast using SPDY, a new protocol it's experimenting with.
• Apple Releases Safari 4.0.4 Update You're going to have restart your Mac again. Apple on Wednesday released Safari 4.0.4, an update that addresses "performance, stability, and security."
• Firefox Faces Its Future as It Turns Five As the Mozilla foundation celebrates five years of Firefox this week, bloggers bake a cake and light the candles.
• Firefox Turns 5: Happy Birthday Firefox! Mozilla's open source entry has made many converts and stepped up browser competition, and the next release is coming soon.
• Microsoft Rivals, Trade Groups Want Browser Offer Changed Microsoft's antitrust settlement offer to the EC needs minor changes to restore fair competition to the market for browsers, rivals said Thursday
• Google Unveils 4.0 Beta of Chrome Browser Chrome adds Synched bookmarks, although Firefox users have had that function for years.
• Protect Your Kids from Profanity-Laden YouTube Comments YouTube seems harmless enough, but kids who read certain user comments may get an eyeful. A handy Firefox extension filters out the bad stuff.
• Migrate to Windows 7--Slowly, Part 5: Migrating Your Bookmarks The easiest way to copy your browser bookmarks from old partition to new? The fabulous freebie known as Xmarks.
• Firefox 3.6 Beta Boosts Speed, Adds Features The long-awaited update to the Firefox browser arrives -- but it's definitely still a beta release.
• Google Chrome: The Fast Browser With Slow Adoption Googe's browser has been out for more than a year, and it's part of a grand scheme -- but does Google know what it's up against?
• Refresh Firefox Tabs Automatically Tired of hitting the Refresh button every time you want to, say, update an auction listing? This extension will do it for you.
• The PC World 100: Best Products of 2009 A laptop that recharges wirelessly, a CPU that leaves the competition in the dust, and a top pick that's changing the face of computing--these are just three of the items in our PC World Top 100 list of the best products of the year.
• IBM Finds Path to Mobile and Voice Browsers IBM is developing a visual editing system for adapting Web pages to mobile and voice browsers.
• Mozilla Releases Raindrop, a Prototype Messaging Tool Mozilla has launched a software project designed to let people manage better the ever more voluminous stream of messages coming Web services into their e-mail.