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• Facebook toolbar released for IE and in multiple languages

  Facebook-oholics now have more tools to deepen their dependency on the world's most popular social-networking site.

• Mozilla revs up Firefox 3.6 speed by 15 per cent

  Mozilla's new Firefox 3.6 is about 15% faster than its predecessor, Firefox 3.5, but still is a slowpoke compared to the current speed demons, Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome, benchmark tests show.

• Widespread attacks exploit newly patched IE bug

  The first widespread attack to leverage a recently patched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser has surfaced.

• Mozilla launches Firefox 3.6, praises its speed

  Mozilla today released Firefox 3.6, the first upgrade to the open-source browser since last June.

• Chrome sets browser security standard, says expert

  All browser makers should take a page from Google's Chrome and isolate untrusted data from the rest of the operating system, a noted security researcher said today.

• Chrome Web browser inches past Safari

  In the most recent Web browser market share statistics from Net Applications, Google's Chrome Web browser sneaked past Apple's Safari to claim third place. The ascent up the market share ladder is more impressive when you consider that Chrome has only been around a little over a year.

• Mozilla unveils new Firefox interface ideas for 2010

  Mozilla yesterday said that its planned overhaul of Firefox's interface will be pushed back to Firefox 4.0, the major release now slated to ship before the end of 2010.

• EU accepts Microsoft's commitments to offer browser choice

  Microsoft's promise to allow Windows users to choose which Internet browser they use has been accepted by the European Commission, ending its antitrust investigation of the company's position in the browser market.

• Mozilla adds extra Firefox 3.6 beta, still plans to ship final in 2009

  Mozilla last week slipped in a fourth beta of its upcoming Firefox 3.6 browser, but said this week that it is still shooting to ship the final code by the end of the year.

• Google nears Chrome Mac beta release

  Google is closing in on a beta for the Mac version of its Chrome browser, according to a list of still-to-be-addressed issues.

• Metasploit releases IE attack, but it's unreliable

  Developers of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing toolkit have released code that can compromise Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, but the software is not as reliable as first thought.

• Microsoft issues security advisory on IE vulnerability

  Microsoft Monday night issued a security advisory that provides customers with guidance and workarounds for dealing with a zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer.

• New attack fells Internet Explorer

  A hacker has posted attack code that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.

• IE9 will close performance gap, Microsoft says

  Microsoft today claimed that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), has nearly closed the JavaScript performance gap between itself and rivals made by Mozilla and Google, even though the browser has been in development only a few weeks.

• Google adds bookmark sync to Chrome browser

  Google upgraded the beta version of its Chrome browser yesterday, adding integrated bookmark synchronization and boasting of a 30% speed improvement over the current production edition.