Tag: chrome

Google sounds death knell for IE 6

Posted by Nexus – 26/02/2010

[via bit-tech.net]

Google is continuing its campaign to gently encourage users to upgrade from the severely out-of-date Internet Explorer 6 to a more modern web browser that properly supports web standards and features such as HTML 5 – and it’s using YouTube as its primary weapon in the fight.

As reported over on ReadWriteWeb, the advertising giant is looking to end support for Microsoft’s aging Internet Explorer 6 web browser – the default browser in Windows XP, replaced by Internet Explorer 7 in Vista – and hopes to encourage users to upgrade via a nag screen.

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Google to pay for Chrome bugs

Posted by Nexus – 01/02/2010

[via bit-tech.net]

Google is to pay up to $1,337 for each confirmed vulnerability in Chrome or Chromium - although it's first come, first served.

Google has begun paying for software vulnerabilities in its Chromium project – the open-source version of its Chrome browser – in an attempt to interest security researchers.

According to a post on the official Chromium blog – via PC World – the advertising giant is looking to pay $500 (£313) per confirmed vulnerability found in the Chromium codebase, as used in the Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux and also in the still-early Linux-based Chrome OS.

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