http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/13/browser.long.missing.from.mac.platform/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/googlechrome.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Google will finally release a public Mac beta of Chrome in early December, says a product manager for the browser, Neil Baum. A Google spokesman has meanwhile declined to offer a specific date, but does note that Baum's timeframe is consistent with promises to release beta software before the end of the year. Developer channel versions have been available since June, but are not recommended for ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/13/browser.long.missing.from.mac.platform/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/11/also.addresses.security.holes/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0911/safari4.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has released Safari 4.0.4, a minor update to the Mac and Windows web browser. The patch makes relatively few changes, but does boost the performance of JavaScript, as well as Full History Searches in the case of a "large number" of items. Stability fixes have been implemented for the search field and Yahoo! Mail.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/11/11/also.addresses.security.holes/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:05:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/30/neglected.browser.approaches.major.update/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/camino2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Mozilla has posted a first release candidate for Camino 2.0, the next major edition of the company's Mac-focused web browser. RC1 makes relatively few changes compared to previous betas, but it does enable new AppleScript abilities, improved Full Keyboard Access support and per-site whitelisting or blacklisting of Flash. More significant may be an upgrade to the Gecko 1.9.0 engine, which include... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/30/neglected.browser.approaches.major.update/ Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/28/cuts.off.theoretical.attacks/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/firefox3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5.4, a minor but still significant update to its multi-platform web browser. The patch fixes 16 vulnerabilities, 11 of which are said to be critical. Among these are problems with third-party media libraries, the core and JavaScript engines, web worker calls, the GIF color map parser and the string-to-number converter.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/28/cuts.off.theoretical.attacks/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/16/draws.fire.from.mozilla.designer/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0910/ballotbrow.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple's Safari browser may occupy too central position in upcoming European versions of Windows, critics say. Users should soon be presented with a special browser ballot, explaining what web browsers are, and more crucially offering a choice of apps beyond Internet Explorer. The feature comes as a result of pressure from the European Commission, which has accused Microsoft of hampering competit... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/16/draws.fire.from.mozilla.designer/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/09/timeframe.suggests.accelerated.development/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/googlechrome.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The Mac version of Chrome should be released before Christmas this year, suggests Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The executive made the revelation at a New York press conference, in the middle of answering a question about the browser's overall marketshare. Chrome's share has been disparaged by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who recently called the browser "a rounding error." Microsoft's Internet Explo... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/09/timeframe.suggests.accelerated.development/ Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/07/may.close.some.common.vulnerabilities/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/gallery/sep2009/firefox3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Beginning with two Tuesday updates, all future iterations of Mozilla's Firefox browser will check for at least some outdated plug-ins, the company has announced. Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 will both scan for the latest version of Flash, prompting users to visit a link where an updated plug-in can be downloaded. "For now, our focus is on the Adobe Flash Player both because of its popularity and bec... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/09/07/may.close.some.common.vulnerabilities/ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:30:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/10/firefox.36.alpha.debuts/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0711/20-firefox-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Mozilla has published the first alpha preview of Firefox 3.6. The upcoming release is codenamed Namoroka, and in its completed form should represent an intermediate step towards Firefox 3.7, a major browser upgrade expected sometime in 2010. The v3.6 alpha nevertheless includes several important changes, such as a new Gecko rendering engine, upgraded to v1.9.2.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/10/firefox.36.alpha.debuts/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:10:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/05/firefox.352.update/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0711/20-firefox-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5.2, updating its multi-platform web browser. A key fix in the release aids photographers, illustrators and other graphics professionals, by now properly rendering images with ICC profiles on all monitors. Such profiles are used to define color spaces, ensuring that the colors depicted on a display are those intended.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/08/05/firefox.352.update/ Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/08/safari.402.update/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0902/safari4-firstlook.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Apple has posted the v4.0.2 update to Safari, its Mac and Windows web browser. The patch implements a relative handful of changes, primarily upgrading the Nitro engine to include new security and compatibility fixes. Nitro is responsible for JavaScript rendering, and is thus linked with many speed improvements over Safari 3.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/08/safari.402.update/ Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:45:00 GMT