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• Mozilla tells Google, it's not you (anymore), it's Yahoo

  Mozilla on Wednesday announced that it had not renewed its lucrative contract with Google, but instead will use Yahoo as Firefox's default search engine in the U.S.

• Chrome for OS X turns 64-bit, forsakes early Intel Macs

  Google today released Chrome 39, the company's first 64-bit browser for OS X from its "stable" branch.

• Mozilla plunks ads into Firefox

  Mozilla kicked off its long-under-development plan to run ads in Firefox with the launch of version 33.1 on Monday.

• As Firefox turns 10, Mozilla trumpets privacy

  Mozilla today pulled out the PR stops to trumpet the 10th anniversary of Firefox, and in celebration released an interim build of Firefox 33 that includes a new privacy tool and access to the DuckDuckGo search engine.

• Google pays $75K in bug bounties to fix 159 Chrome flaws

  Google yesterday released Chrome 38, paying out more than $75,000 in bounties for some of the 159 vulnerabilities patched in the massive security update.

• Chrome for Mac to desert early Intel Mac owners by October

  Google yesterday advanced its 64-bit Chrome browser to beta status, and told owners of the very earliest Intel-based Macs that they would soon be left behind.

• Mozilla presses forward with new revenue plan, debuts ads in Firefox preview

  Mozilla has added small advertisements to the new tab page of Firefox's roughest-edged build, the channel dubbed "Nightly" because it is updated each evening.

• Chrome sings 'When I'm 64' on Windows

  Google yesterday released a 64-bit Windows version of Chrome, touting it as a performance and stability improvement over the six-year-old 32-bit edition.

• Chrome sharpens up, dumps 1985's graphics technology

  Google has updated Chrome to version 37, finally abandoning a 29-year-old Windows technology to display fonts.

• Major SSL flaw found in iOS, OS X

  Apple has released a patch for iOS and says an OS X fix will be released 'very soon'

• Wednesday Grok: Google is about to kill Firefox

  When was the last time you even noticed which browser you used, and frankly why would you care? They all will pretty much get you from 01000001 to 01000010 on the Web as quick as you click.

• Google boosts garbage collection for Chrome browser

  Google is offering a new incremental garbage collector for its Chrome browser to "dramatically" improve the interactive performance of Web applications, the company said on Monday.

• Opera responds to Amazon's Cloud-powered 'Silk' browser

  One of to features of Amazon's recently announced Kindle Fire tablet drawing attention is its WebKit-based 'Silk' Web browser. What makes Silk different from most browsers is its 'split browser' approach: Putting together complicated Web pages in Amazon's Cloud infrastructure before downloading the end result to the browser.

• The big, bad browser quiz

  Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari -- you know the names of these Web browsers, but do you really know them?

• 13 features that make each Web browser unique

  Many cynical users assume Web browsers do little more than dutifully render HTML. The content is the most important part, they say, so it makes little difference which browser you use.