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• Google Chrome update addresses high-severity flaw

  Google has released an update for Chrome 15 which addresses a high-risk vulnerability. The security issue is the result of an out-of-bounds memory write in the browser's JavaScript engine.

• Speedy Firefox 9 beta versions take their place in line

  Hard on the heels of the release earlier this week of Firefox 8, Mozilla on Thursday released the beta versions of the next Firefox in line.

• Flash Player demise on desktop inevitable, but years away, say analysts

  Adobe's decision to stop Flash Player development for mobile browsers will likely be repeated for browsers on the desktop, just not anytime soon, analysts said today.

• Microsoft: Switch to IE9, get free stuff

  Microsoft last Friday launched a promotion to convince more Windows 7 users to adopt Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).

• As Chrome inches ahead, Firefox slims down

  Google's Chrome browser is slowly but surely creeping up on Firefox in terms of market share, according to the latest Net Applications data, but Mozilla continues to tweak and polish Firefox with an ongoing series of new improvements.

• Microsoft's IE posts biggest share drop in three years

  Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) last month lost the largest amount of usage share in three years, according to a Web metrics firm.

• Opera CTO: Kill the browser scroll bar

  For a relatively new medium, the World Wide Web still relies on a comparatively ancient method of presenting information to the reader, that of scrolling. Now, the creator of the widely used CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and current CTO of Opera, wants to replace the browser scroll bar with page-based navigation.

• Mozilla, Microsoft debut Bing-ed Firefox

  Just weeks before Mozilla's lucrative contract with Google comes up for renewal, the open-source developer launched a customized version of Firefox that uses rival Microsoft's Bing search engine.

• Google revamps new-tab page in Chrome web browser

  Google has revamped the "new-tab" feature in its Chrome web browser to give the look and feel of a mobile web app.

• Google pays record $26K in Chrome bug bounties

  Google paid out a record $26,511 in bug bounties to researchers who reported some of the 18 Chrome vulnerabilities patched today.

• Chrome bug no security threat, argues Google

  Google's Chrome contains a critical vulnerability that under certain circumstances allows attackers to plant malware on a Windows PC, a security company said last week.

• Most tablet users won't pay for news content

  A large majority of tablet computer users still want to read news content for free, according to the results of a survey done by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and The Economist Group.

• Hacker collective Anonymous strikes at child porn sites

  Hacker collective Anonymous is at it again, and this time it is targeting websites that allow users to share child porn.

• Adobe to fix Flash flaw that allows webcam spying

  Adobe is working on a fix for a Flash Player vulnerability that can be exploited via clickjacking techniques to turn on people's webcams or microphones without their knowledge.

• Opera denies refusing to patch critical vulnerability

  Opera Software has released an update for its desktop browser in order to address a critical vulnerability in its handling of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files, disclosed a week ago. The company denies refusing to patch the flaw when it was brought to its attention earlier this year.