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Internet Explorer first, Safari last against phishing

Justyn — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:12:33 +0000

An independent security research group named NSS Labs found that Internet Explorer 8 came out on top at stopping phishing attacks. Firefox and Internet Explorer both tied first followed by Opera and Chrome. Safari was the biggest loser, coming last with only 2% of phishing attempts being blocked and there was no difference between the Mac or Windows client.

You can read the full PDF document that NSS Labs has detailing the testing process and their results.

Internet Explorer 6 Blocker

Justyn — Sun, 03 May 2009 22:49:40 +0000

There has been some issues with my blog and viewing it with Internet Explorer 6 (mainly the lightbox effect) and since Internet Explorer 6 is 8 years old I felt it was time that people should be upgrading their web browsers to atleast Internet Explorer 7.

Microsoft have released Internet Explorer 8 and it has major improvements over Internet Explorer 6. The other options are ofcourse Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Safari.

People that try to view the website in Internet Explorer 6 may get an error saying “Operation Aborted”, you can refresh the page and it will load alright but I am not going to go through all the hassles to try and support a browser that is so old.

Force which browser to use?

Justyn — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:54:49 +0000

Just recently I got a suggestion via Skribit to stop forcing you, the reader to use a certain web browser. Now with out being rude, I am not forcing you to use any web browser.

For those that don’t know what I am talking about, I have a bar across the top of my page when visiting the site in Internet Explorer. The bar simply states:

Please, stop using Internet Explorer as a browser. It’s slow, unsecure and doesn’t render web pages correctly. You may download free and better browser like Mozilla Firefox or Opera. Close.

Now, I am not forcing you to switch browsers, if you look closely there is also a Close link at the end of the sentence, so it removes the recommendation. Maybe if I had the site redirect to a page that said “LOL, your using Internet Explorer, FAIL”, there would be a reason to make a suggestion.

I just am recommending an alternative web browser to use, at the end of the day it’s your choice what web browser you would like to use.

WebKit gets 100/100 Acid3 test

Justyn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:24:00 +0000

Well, it looks like the publicly available WebKit (Apple’s Safari) has succeded in getting 100/100 for the Acid3 test. Opera has also claimed it has reached 100/100 too, but is an internal build at the moment.

You can download the latest nightly build of WebKit (r31368 – Windows / r31370 – OS X) over on the WebKit Nightly Builds page, and you can read about it over at Surfin’ Safari. You can also view the anouncement Opera made about the Acid3 results over at the Opera Desktop Team Blog.