Many people still wonder that which web browser was the first one. Many think that Netscape was the first browser, but they are wrong. The first web browser was called “Mosaic”. Mosaic was developed by two guys Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at the National Center of Supercomputing Applications (also known as NCSA).
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Private Browsing Race, Directly Supporting Porn
Since last few weeks you all must have noticied the new race in the web broswers. Private Browsing feature is recently introduced into the market of web browsers as a new technique to browse the Internet. First Apple Safari introduced it, then Google Chrome, then the copying spectator Microsoft IE 8 Beta and last of all Mozilla Firefox 3.1
Basically what this private browsing feature?
Answer to this very simple question is, it simple does not store any tracks of the websites that you browsing during that session. It will not keep a track of your History, the Cookies, the Temporarily saved Internet files, etc. on your computer’s harddrive. As soon as you close the browser window. Your browser clears away all the cache for those websites. In the end, result is – Save Private Browsing.
Why was this feature introduced?
At first we thought its for those people who browse Internet at public places to make their browsing safe for their web-based emails and other personal things. But later when you seen in deapth its not.
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Firefox add-on protects against hackers
Carnegie-Mellon University has developed a free add-on to the Mozilla Firefox 3.0 browser to boost security for users.
The Perspectives add-on was developed at the university’s School of Computer Science and College of Engineering.
The software protects Firefox users against potential “man-in-the-middle” wireless attacks when users are surfing the web.
The Perspectives system also supports domain name website certificates provided by the likes of VeriSign, Comodo and Godaddy.