Three months ago, Microsoft released the 8 edition of its Big Blue E. The Internet Explorer 8 was launched at a time when all its competitors in web market were about to up the ante. Chrome 2.0, Firefox 3.5.1 , Safari 4 are giving Microsoft's default Windows browser a run for money.  Despite such stiff competition, IE 8 has managed to receive more of positive reviews. Well, IE8 has come of age offering almost everything right out of the box. Here we would present the

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Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is suffering from rendering issue or scripting error on some web pages you visit. What better can you do except to send an email to Steve Ballmer asking for a solution. lol. If not exactly that now you can take on your complain about IE web browser to Microsoft. The company would be providing a Report a Webpage Problem Internet Explorer Add-on. The new addition will allow the users to submit their report to Microsoft for webpages that have rendering problems, scripting errors, or any other type of problems in IE8. However, the add-on might be removed from the Microsoft Download Center at any time.

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Microsoft has reported a vulnerability in its DirectShow, in some versions of Windows. DirectShow is Microsoft's framework for playing different media types such as games and multimedia. The software giant revealed that Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 are vulnerable to this issue. However,  Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 would be unaffected by the crisis. The attacks are conceived to be generated from the malicious QuickTime media files.
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Internet Explorer 8 has chosen to go Mozilla way and bring out some add-ons to regain the lost market of IE. While we have been hunting down Mozila Firefox add-ons like anything, this time we thought of focussing a bit on our old mate and bring out the best possible. So here are 20 most popular and most useful Internet Explorer add-ons for various purposes.

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This is for those using Windows 7. Do you know that when you use the Internet Explorer InPrivate Browsing window, the InPrivate Blocking is turned on by default? The purpose of InPrivate Blocking is to prevent websites from collecting information about the sites you have visited. So what about doing a few tweaks and customizing it as you wish? Here is a simple guide.

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The test machine runs on Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 Ghz (x2) with 2GB RAM. I tried loading single page PHP manual (16.5 MB) on Windows Vista from our local server with 100Mbps LAN connecting it. At the same time I was running the Javascript console to measure performance of page loading. I was also searching for the term cgi in the page being loaded. It takes about 2 minutes to load it in Firefox. 20 minutes later the page was still loading in Google Chrome!

The page up / page down keys were pretty unresponsive in the tab as well as the Javascript console. It appears Google Chrome parses pages as it loads the. As of the time of this writing the single tab with PHP manual has consumed 576 MB of RAM and still increasing. I could see the Javascript Console was using the same process which explains which it was hanging along with the browser tab. Read after the break for more details.

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Alicia Keys MySpace page was hacked by inserting a seemingly innocent link with interesting width and height. Let's review the concept.

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