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• Use Greasemonkey Scripts In IE, Chrome, and Safari The Greasemonkey add-on lets you customize Websites and browse the way you want to--if you're on Firefox. Here's how to get under the hood with Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari.
• Mozilla Endorses Bing Over Google Privacy Issues A Mozilla executive suggested Firefox users move to Bing for search functions, citing concerns over Google's stance on privacy.
• Google Chrome: How to Install 5 Hot Extensions Similar to Firefox add-ons, these cool Chrome extensions sit on your toolbar and extend the functionality of your browser.
• Norton Online Backup 2.0 Adds Mac Support Norton's updated Online Backup utility promises to make cross-platform living easier with the addition of Mac OS X support.
• Microsoft Update Fixes IE, Windows, Office Bugs Today's patch addresses seven critical flaws, including three in Internet Explorer 8, plus vulnerabilities in Windows, Office.
• Chrome Browser Arrives for Mac Google has shipped a prerelease version of its browser for Linux and OS X, but work remains.
• First Look: Chrome for Mac Just when you thought there were already too many OS X browsers--Safari, Firefox, OmniWeb, Camino, iCab, and Opera, to name but a few--one more enters the fray:...
• Google Releases Chrome Beta for Mac As promised, the Google Chrome for Mac beta has just made it in under the wire for a 2009 release. Of course, it's still just a beta, not a first release--and...
• First Look: Google's Chrome Operating System we've downloaded an early build of Google's Chrome OS--just released to the open source community-- to show you how it works so far.
• Microsoft Revamps Browser to Meet EU Antitrust Demand Browser screen tweaks desired by rivals may result in antitrust settlement this month.
• Microsoft Readies Browser Patch Next Tuesday's security updates apparently won't clean up the black screen of death, though.
• Android Answers: How to Get Multitouch Browsing on Droid Want multitouch browsing on your Motorola Droid? No problem. Here's how.
• Google Chrome Browser: Mac Beta Almost Ready Only eight bugs block beta, but several features will be AWOL.
• Attacks Appear Imminent as IE Exploit Is Improved Metasploit has released an improved attack for an IE zero-day attack, making criminal use more likely.
• 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.