Switching Homepage to Google in Safari

June 15, 2007 · Filed Under Silicon Valley · Comment 

google safari warning bug windows

Have your tried the Safari for Windows version? Now, try changing the homepage to www.google.com, it appears that Safari doesn’t want you to make the switch to Google, anything but Google. I’ve tried switching over to msn.com and yahoo.com and it works perfectly without any warnings.

The likely reason is that Apple gets paid by Google whenever someone uses the Safari’s search field on the upper right hand corner, pretty much like how Firefox get paid with their browser.

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Symantec slams Firefox again (and again)

September 25, 2006 · Filed Under Security · 1 Comment 

Symantec slams Firefox again

I guess Firefox is not as safe as what they said it would be. There were 47 vulnerabilities documented in Mozilla browsers this year, 38 bugs for Microsoft Internet Explorer and 12 holes for Apple’s Safari, but when it comes to fixing bugs, Mozilla still stop the list with a respond to bugs within a day or two, wherelse Microsoft takes 9 feaking days, Apple on the other hand took 5 days.

Security in Internet browser is a major issue, and with the current market of equally divided share among these competitors, trojans and worms are harder to spread. What the market need is another browser to have an equal number of the pie. Perhaps Opera Browser might make an impact in the near future, afterall, they’re the first browser to introduce tab browsing.

I used to browse the web with Opera, its fast but very unstable. I was annonyed with the constant crashing and hanging of the browser and eventually make a come back to Internet Explorer, it was only 2 years ago I come accross this new browser called Firefox and I never look back. Firefox rulez.

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