MetaFilter posts tagged with browser and Internet

Web browser history detection

homunculus — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:06:25 -0800

What the Internet knows about you. "This project was started by a small group of Web developers and security researchers in order to highlight the problem of Web browser history detection -- a problem which can dramatically affect the Web and hurt many people, if not solved quickly. Our direct goal is to educate the mainstream public and show them the direct consequences of allowing this aspect of Web browser behavior, as well as provide some solutions which mitigate the problem. However, since there are no existing satisfactory solutions, our other objective is to point the attention of browser developers to this issue and strongly encourage them to implement the necessary and long-overdue fixes." [Via]

Because Firefox is just too darn white.

zardoz — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:48:21 -0800

Blackbird. Are you reading this page on Firefox, Opera, or IE? More importantly, are you black? Then you might want to check out Blackbird: "a web browser designed for the African-American community."

Death of a Browser, End of an Era

Chinese Jet Pilot — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:47:45 -0800

RIP Netscape browser, 1994-2007. AOL, who acquired the groundbreaking browser as part of a $4.2 billion deal in 1998, announced the end today. Good-bye or good riddance?

Pirating Firefox?

FeldBum — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:04:48 -0800

You can't just give away free software! Or can you? Firefox's copyleft premise destroys U.K. anti-piracy laws. Gervase Markham takes on a U.K. official who wants to arrest pirates for distributing firefox.

Internet Explorer - We discovered the web.

sjvilla79 — Sat, 28 May 2005 14:04:29 -0800

Internet Explorer - We discovered the web. Check out this humorous parody site created for Microsoft's browser Internet Explorer. Something tells me this won't be up for too much longer though.

Internet Explorer 7 announced

j.p. Hung — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:38:34 -0800

Internet Explorer 7 announced We've heard about it for a while and it's been discussed here before. Will the new version of I.E. be able to hold its own against open source browsers like Firefox?

Great Googly Moogly

fixedgear — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:58:19 -0800

Forget about P&G and Gilette, how 'bout Google & Firefox? Is Google developing their own browser? They appear to be hiring Firefox developers. Can Googzilla be far behind?

The new browser war

Stuart_R — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:36:38 -0800

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is now available. The Spread Firefox site hopes to see a million downloads, and they've already passed the halfway mark. The advantages of Firefox have been previously discussed on MeFi, but this version includes an interesting new feature - Live Bookmarks, which allow you to view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. Obsessively checking MetaFilter is now easier than ever.

WaSP Calls for MS to Fix Standards Bugs in Discontinued IE

setmajer — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 06:03:47 -0800

IE in bug fix mode? Then fix the bugs! As was mentioned here before, MS is discontinuing the free version of IE for Mac, and offering it only as part of the MSN service instead. They also appear to be doing the same with IE for Windows. The Web Standards Project is demanding that they include standards bugs in the list they are going to fix, because MS has always advertised IE as standards-compliant.

boxplorer

tatochip — Tue, 26 Nov 2002 20:00:44 -0800

boxplorer
one of the most interesting website interpreters i've ever seen. i'll just quote the site: The Internet BOXPLORER browser offers a rectangular view of the World Wide Web. It abstracts web page layouts to produce what are frequently rather colorful compositions. BOXPLORER purifies the Web, making it safe for children of all ages -- free from controversy and advertising. Translation - very interesting graphic renditions of any site you enter.

gdog — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 09:38:23 -0800

Zoë is Google for your inbox (and outbox, too). It's written in Java and actually works on a number of platforms, using a browser-based interface. Jon Udell describes the way he uses Zoë in this O'reilly article.

But be warned: navigating through archived email from five years ago is as humbling as it is addictive.

riffola — Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:54:25 -0800

Fight the browser with .movTV [Quicktime required.]

Irontom — Tue, 17 Jul 2001 08:50:28 -0800

SynchIt is a bookmark manager that allows you to access your favorites list from multiple machines. However, their server does not seem to be responding.

Since I was out of town (and away from my machine) for all of last week, can anyone tell me what the deal is?

milnak — Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:57:41 -0800

The Opera Browser is now ad-supported freeware. What does this mean for Internet Explorer and Netscape?

Dean_Paxton — Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:47:36 -0800

Netscape 4.76 is available for downloa... oh, to hell with it, why do I even bother?

joeclark — Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:10:19 -0800

iCab 2.1 is out The fabbest little Web browser for adherents of the Macintosh religion, iCab, is now out in version 2.1. It lacks any CSS support, and JavaScript support is very poor, but for a program written from scratch by one or two people (Alexander Clauss seems to be the lead), it's astounding. Absolutely full support for HTML 4 – every extended character (iCab seems to use its own font), weirdo tags like LONGDESC, ACRONYM, and ABBR, TITLEs on everything (no popups: text appears in status line). Filter out ads automatically. Only browser other than Lynx that handles metadata like LINK REL="next". The damn thing validates your code for you (click the smiling or frowning icon at the right of the address bar). And so on. And so on. I love this program. And yes, I'm in the minority. What else is new?