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tweakboy

tweakboy

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I use Chrome for facebook, and I dont use IE8 I use Firefox 3.6.3 or Minefield Firefox 3.7alpha updates every night. thx

Firefox gets a Acid 3 score of 94, Firefox 3.7 alpha has score of 96 . IE is drunk still. and Chrome is the only browser to pass the acid 3 test ,, 100/100 ....

In fox you can change it in about:config and type in preview ,,, ull see preview tabs blah and change it to true. Now Firefox 3.6.3 will show you on taskbar just like IE ,, thx
 
dguy6789 said:
This.



Nobody tried to hack it in pwn2own, it wasn't even in the contest.
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Quite incorrect: It was " in the contest " for the hacking and maybe they didn't try because it was harder to hack than the lesser Browsers. Sandboxing: Firefox nor Safari use this and it has to be activated ( via protected mode ) manually in IE8. It was amazing how fast the others ( IE, Safari, and Firefox ) fell.

Neither Firefox nor Safari use sandboxes.

http://techie-buzz.com/browsers/google-chrome-pwn2own-hack.html

The Hackathon is over and the only browser left standing is Google Chrome. This is the second consecutive year that Google has managed to leave the competition unscathed. In fact, according to TheNextWeb, this time around no one even attempted to hack Chrome.

Google obviously went into the competition well prepared. It fixed as many as 11 flaws just ahead of the competition. However, so did Apple, which recently pushed through 16 patches for Safari. Safari’s fall also proves that there is more to Google’s success than its lowly market share.

In fact, given that Google Chrome had managed to survive last year’s Pwn2Own, most people expected hackers to be gunning for it this time around. Google credits its “sandboxing” technique , which forces processes to run in a restricted environment, for Chrome’s success. While, sandboxing might be the key behind Chrome’s outstanding security track record, it definitely isn’t the sole contributor. Even Internet Explorer 8 utilizes sandboxing (Protected Mode), yet it fell quite easily.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1897

Every other major browser this year in Vancouver fell victim to hackers in the Pwn2Own competition this year. There are lots of cash prizes available for people with skillz — including $10,000 for browser vulnerabilities and $15,000 for mobile phones like iPhone and Android.

This year, all the major browsers were cracked within minutes — that includes Firefox, IE8, and Safari. One browser was left standing — Google Chrome. This browser is certainly getting a reputation of being solid, as researchers in the same competition last year were unable to do anything with Chrome either.

In addition to the Google Chrome browser, Android was left standing as well. That seems fairly impressive, since the iPhone was hacked in just 20 seconds according to Ryan Naraine.

These results don’t mean that Google is 100% secure — but it does mean that Google simply isn’t the lowest hanging fruit. Market share isn’t the reason researchers weren’t focusing on Google products this year, because prize amounts didn’t depend on it — it just happens to be much easier to hack the competition.
 
Sandboxing: Firefox nor Safari use this and it has to be activated (via protected mode) manually in IE8.
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Actually, Protected Mode is activated by default on both IE7 and IE8, assuming you have an OS capable of Protected Mode (namely Vista or Win7).

This year, all the major browsers were cracked within minutes
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I have a feeling many hours of research were done before they arrived, however 😉
 
@pcgeek:
From what I was reading about the attack used against IE, is that it was more so an attack against the OS (DEP specifically) and not the browser and that the same attack worked on FF. I wonder if it might have also worked against Chrome, and any other browser running on a Windows system. I also wonder if IE8 was running in protected mode when it was attacked.

That said, I do totally agree with you about the massive security benefit of a sandboxed browser. So it's IE8 in protected mode and Chrome for me all the way.
 
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On Windows: Firefox 3.6.3 and Opera 10.50 (Opera usually exclusively)
On Mac: Opera 10.10 and Firefox 3.6.3 (Also Opera exclusively)

I usually only use firefox to run facebook and google voice.
 
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