Results tagged “firefox” from Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

So is Facebook acting as a Trojan horse for all manner of strange things - including some which want to rob you blind?

I recently blogged on a problem I was having signing out of my Hotmail account - and the error message (https://ssl.facebook.com/accept_token.php) seemed to suggest that the well known social networking site might be behind the problem.

I contacted the Hotmail Live team and in a reasonably short time they came back with potential fixes - one of which was asking if I had added the Facebook module to Windows Live Hotmail (I hadn't - or at least I hadn't personally done so.)

Internet search engine giant google has announced through its blog that it is entering the market for internet browsers.

The new application is called 'Chrome' and will now no doubt challenge the biggies of Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Google claims that it will run applications, games and so on much better.

A key improvement is said to be that each tab will effectively run as a separate entity, preventing the whole application crashing if it decides it doesn't like a website, which is a current problem with IE and Firefox.

In fact this is one of the key improvements being touted for Internet Explorer 8, so I suppose google is stealing a march on Microsoft.

Google says it is making all the code open source and promises the emphasis will be on simplicity and speed.

We'll see how it turns out - but another player in this area can only be a good thing for surfers.

Below: first screenshots of Google Chrome (so not entirely dissimilar, at least visually, from what's out there, then).