Chromodo web browser under fire for leaving users in danger

According to the research results from some security researcher from Google, some of the policies in Chromodo web browser are disabled while Chrome has the same policies enabled by default. This leaves some users in danger as baddies can gain access to the private data. With the safeguard, scripts can access data in another script if they both originate from the same source. It's a warning originating from the Google researcher and there is a fix he has made to fix the issue.
Even worse is that the Comodo Internet Security tempers with the DNS settings according to the researcher in addition to importing everything from Google Chrome and making itself the default browser and nobody knows the motive of this. And of course, is there a reason on why Comodo doesn't have the official solution to this fix.
It's another security weakness that can leave you vulnerable to attacks by cyber-criminals, not some kind of a measure/practice that lowers down the security level through illegal cyber-monitoring for detection of baddies. No, like I've said, it's just another security weakness or bug that the ones behind the web browser or the app should come up with a patch or something to fix it. There's already no clue this time on why Comodo isn't aware of this. You could have used the other antivirus/internet security brands instead of this unusual-ness.

Google Chrome reportedly bypassing Adblock that forces users to watch video ads

The actual culprit behind this bypassing is the unintended result of fixing the previous security issue and the developers behind the Chromium are already aware of it. The patch is likely to be on the way to Google Chrome 46 and until then, the only way to get around this situation is to disable Adblock, whitelist YouTube or maybe uninstall the YouTube app. Wait, YouTube web app on Chrome? That sounds kind of bullshit to you for your sake! You could have used the YouTube with HTML5 for smoother browsing right now on any web browser. You could have also used the YouTube app on mobile devices which obviously makes any sense.
OK, it may seem that many people were like putting blame to Google for causing this security problem but once again, the actual culprit is the one stated above at the beginning of this post. It may be a minor or normal issue level.

Spyware extension silently installed on Chromium

A mysterious extension installed on Chromium silently listens in to whatever the user is doing on Chromium according to some reports from the security experts and researchers. Google was already aware of this situation and they confirmed that it was Debian's responsibility and reason that the extension was installed without concern because it is a security problem related to privacy. It might affect the users using the Chromium-based web browsers on Debian and Debian-based OSes. Also, it might seem that Chromium itself is not a Google product but then, Google Chrome itself is pretty much based on Chromium and they still have the hands on that technology. The origin of that doesn't belong to Google however.
The only solution will be to disable the microphone and camera on the computer or use other web browsers on the Debian and Debian-based OSes.

Chrome apps on Android and IOS

Hmm, the Chrome apps may look kind of pointless to use on whichever devices you’re using such as the desktops, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, etc. probably due to the apps already existing on those devices all along. The mobile apps on tablets and mobile phones are already useful enough but why do you need Chrome apps on those things? We don’t know what those apps are and especially for the games so why do we need to use Chrome apps when we already have better kinds of app to use?

Well, it’s more or less a pointless move from Google but it isn’t on Chromebooks themselves as if you can use those apps on those laptops instead! Jolicloud on the other hand has recognizable services and apps and I’ve already been using it on the live USB probably due to the fact that it can be officially downloaded.

The Chrome apps were already launched in September for desktops and now, they’re going to be available in January next year as well.

NPAPI is of no more in the future

Netscape Plug-In API or NPAPI is already damn old and it will be phased out in the future. Even Mozilla is already planning to block those plugins in December this year with Google doing the same thing in January next year. For Google Chrome, this will be effective in Stable channel by default.

However, the downside for doing this is that Silverlight, Unity, Java, Facebook Video, Google Earth and Google Talk are likely to be blocked as well but to avoid disruption to users, they will be temporarily whitelisted for security reasons. For Silverlight, I may still need it by the way for Microsoft Virtual Academy thing. For Facebook Video, I don’t know if it will be using Adobe Flash Player technology to playback videos like that.

Good thing is that the Adobe Flash Player technology and PDF viewers are not NPAPI related as if you can use them in the first place.

Internet Explorer 10 for Windows Phone

It surely looks like Internet Explorer 9 for Windows Phone but IE9 Mobile to me may seem to be the prototype and therefore it’s not quite fast. So, with IE 10 for Windows Phone, it is truly fast and assumed to be less buggy. In Windows Phone 7.5, the interface seems to be changed a bit to make more room for the sites you care about so they’re no longer boxed-in by the browser frame. This same look is kept in Windows Phone 8, plus the popular features including the smart address bar, tabbed browsing and pinned sites to name a few that are retained.

It is obvious that the design may be sharing the Windows 8 counterpart of Internet Explorer browser as both Windows Phone and Windows 8 versions of IE 10 are built on the same engine and offer improved handling of key web technologies and standard, including new support for touch-enabled sites.

Like Windows 8 itself, there are more ways to share on Windows Phone. If you have an Xbox 360 console with the new dashboard, you can use the latest ways to share. Just choose the Xbox option from IE 10’s Share menu to launch the Xbox SmartGlass app on your Windows Phone and send the website you were looking at to your TV. Another feature is the Card Tap like Ad-Hoc way in which you can tap your Windows Phone on another one provided that it supports the NFC, an emerging wireless technology designed for short-distance sharing. Maybe this is like the infrared sort of thing or perhaps the card scanning or whatever, I don’t know. But note that Windows Phone devices aren’t the only devices that support NFC. Since NFC is an industry standard, you can share with any device that supports it. Even better is that you can tap on the NFC enabled poster or flyer mentioning some website that allows you to pull up the site in your browser. It is sort of like the some QR code or something for other devices where you can scan your smartphone to those codes to gain access to something that fulfills the objectives.

Using Data Sense, you can help reduce the data consumption while browsing the web without slowing things down or changing how sites appear. With that enabled, you’ll be able to load up to 45% more web pages on the same data plan or wireless connection. Also, the favorites and settings for the web browsers are backed up in case you ever lose or charge your smartphone. This may be due to the use of Microsoft Account in which your favorites and settings are kept in the cloud similar to other web browsers like Google Chrome.

Like Android and computers, the smartphones are potentially vulnerable to security threats. The SmartScreen Filter, the same as found in the computer that’s protected millions of people, is in Windows Phone as well. Also, like Windows 8’s IE 10, IE 10 for Windows Phone has the Do Not Track feature, which signals websites that you prefer not to have information collected about your visit as you browse. It’s important to note that it’s up to individual sites to determine how to interpret this signal. The feature is turned on if you choose the recommended setup option the first time you use the browser on Windows Phone and Windows 8.

Unlike Windows Phone 7.5, it seems that the Find on Page as the developers are asked to put in is in Windows Phone 8 as they are honest that they had already run out of time during the development.  This feature is also in Internet Explorer 10 which means it’s fast and robust.

Lastly, in case you find things missing, you can use the Suggestion Box to make suggestions on what do you need the developers to put in. For me, I may need the TABS to be MOVABLE like the desktop edition of the web browsers themselves.

Chrome for IOS and Android Update

For IOS users, the browser version had been updated to Chrome version 23. This includes the ability to open PDFs in other apps, support for saving your boarding passes and tickets with Passbook, an option to automatically detect text encoding and stability and security improvements so the updates may be easy with the App Store or ITunes if you already have installed the app.

For Android users, well, what the hell is up with the version of the app. It was updated to version 18 for ARM and x86 Android devices. This includes fixes for some frequently occurring stability issues. Like App Store for the IOS, the update through Google Play Store is easy

Google Drive update

Today’s update from Google features the search by person on Google Drive which may be useful in case you forget the filename that you may want to search for the person who shared the file with you. Other update includes the interaction of Google Earth files right inside Google Drive on the web and that’s a bravo thing to Google for sure. You can also make new folders while organizing files which may seem to be one of the minor updates than a major update as well as to drag and drop folders from your desktop to Google Drive. Unfortunately, that drag and drop update is for Google Chrome and I don’t know if other web browsers can support that feature as well. Lastly, the search includes the files in the Trash folder in case you’ve accidentally deleted the files and you want them restored back but you can’t find where they are in the Trash folder.

Opera 12.10

Released yesterday for Mac, Windows and Linux, there are many goodies in this release such as OS integration, improved standards support, compatibility tweaks and more.

For the Mac OSX version, the Mountain Lion version has the support for Notification Center and built-in sharing of pages to social networking sites as well as the Retina Display. For Windows users, there’s the inertia scrolling and pinch-to-zoom on Windows 7 and 8. But that’s it for Windows version? There should be Retina Display support for this browser on Windows 8 as well as the similar features Mountain Lion version has for Windows 8. For Windows 7 version, I don’t know what to say but you know that Chrome derivative browser like Rockmelt allows you to use the built-in sharing features which may be similar to what this version of Opera web browser has.

Web browsers nowadays are about fast speed and new technology embedded so there is the new SPDY protocol which makes web pages load faster on SPDY enabled sites such as Gmail, social networking sites and Wordpress. Perhaps you can go to various social networking sites for faster experience if you want like everyday on Opera web browser but in my Wordpress blog, I may optionally put in some link to encourage users to download this version of Opera web browser for faster speed.

There’s the support for high-DPI screens in the extensions framework of Opera developers: with two simple adjustments, you can make sure your extension icons look great on Retina Display screens similar to using Safari web browser on Retina Display as well and especially IE10 on Windows 8 with Retina Display support. But what about Chrome and Firefox? Do they have Retina Display support as well?

Longer battery life and easier website permissions for Google Chrome

On Google Chrome 23, there’s the Do Not Track setting for users that disallows any tracking of your accounts to be made. Other parts of the original news include the GPU-accelerated video decoding for Windows version of the web browser. Dedicated graphics chips draw far less power than a CPU so using GPU-accelerated video decoding while watching videos online can increase the battery life. The YouTube video is one of the famous examples you can view on Google Chrome with this new video decoding from Google.

In their tests, the battery lasted 25% longer when this new feature is enabled so that you won’t get cut off while watching YouTube videos. Wow, bravos to Google unless you’re using Chrome 22 and below.

Now, back to Do Not Track setting, the effectiveness of such requests is dependent on how websites and services respond, so Google is working with others on a common way to respond to these requests in the future.

Lastly, with automatic updates for the browser, you will get these complete enhancements when Google Chrome 23 Final version is released. Any stage below Final will cause inaccuracies and therefore, your battery may not last anything longer.

Google Drive for Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS is the Linux based cloud OS for the respective Chromebooks but you can also use the Chromium OS on any computer you want. However, Chromium OS we used didn’t seem to be official but for Jolicloud OS, the rival to Chrome OS, it is kind of neater that way as we’re able to use the web edition of Jolicloud OS on the browser that brings the similar features. The only difference is that web edition is not the online operating system itself but rather the service that brings similar features to using Jolicloud OS itself. Google Drive is the upgrade from Google Docs with improved and new features to the existing apps such as doing spreadsheet, presentation, word processing and even more. It is recently available for Chrome OS and Chrome Web Store and we can call Google Drive as another cloud storage service and the rival to other cloud storage services as we know and use.

Google’s 14th Birthday

Now it’s time to Tell Your World again with Google’s 14th Birthday today. On Google’s Search Engine, you’re able to see the animated birthday cake representing Google. The downside though, the link leads to the only word in the search box, ‘Google’. Is there a reason not to enter things like ‘Google’s 14th Birthday’ for example instead?

Well, let’s make sure that Google keeps up their work with fun and other business activities as long as the projects are completed on time with proper quality and resources. Sure they have equal musical power of various young modern artists including the unusual and virtual ones who are featured in Google Chrome Japan commercials.

New Outlook Web App

Wow, it seems that Hotmail users are migrating to the new Metro Outlook Web App in which you can also use the Outlook 15 but I don't know if that is available for Home Premium edition of Office 15 because we all know that Outlook is like Hotmail for business use. But with the use of the new Outlook Web App, we are able to use the Hotmail account to retrieve our emails from there besides using the Hotmail website. I guess that our Hotmail account is still up to date like that no matter but I don't think it is the same when using other apps to retrieve emails on your Hotmail accounts. Maybe because the way your Hotmail account is up-to-date is inaccurate.
There are three versions of the online app which are truly compatible. First, is the normal computer use in which there's not much to say. Second, is the tablet use in which the app is divided into two to three parts depending on the tablet device you're using. It may be the same for the older computers whose screens are 4:3 but I guess that Outlook Web App has like more features than the standard Mail app on Windows 8. Lastly is the phone use and the whole GUI design is like the style of Windows Phone. But then, on other devices, the whole opportunity is like a joke.
In addition, there may be Outlook Apps such as the LinkedIn App for Outlook that can be activated in Outlook Web App. Other features include the Forgotten Attachment Detector, improved Draft indicators and the inaccurate drag-and-drop of files from the desktop in which you're better off going to the Metro version of File Attachment screen if you're using the tablet device.
Well, it's Outlook or perhaps Hotmail, right, and you get to see certain features formed in to one whole app? The new view in the calendar is MOGENDA which is the combination of Monthly and Agenda view. You can also peek at the schedules in the calendar to know the premises or perhaps the importance of what's happening. There will be factors, telling you what you're supposed to do when you try to follow the schedules so make sure you're prepared.
Now for Browser and Operating System Support, you get two flavors.

• OWA Premium: It requires IE8 and above as well as newer versions of Safari, Chrome and Firefox on the computers. For tablets, the requirements are Windows 8 Tablets, IOS 6 on Ipad 2 and Iphone 4 or later in the initial release in which IOS 6 is still under development. You can still use the preview edition of this on IOS 5 but on Ipod Touch 4th Gen with IOS 5, what a joke when I just accessed Outlook Web App, lol.
• OWA Light: This is the basic version that IE7 for example, can support in case you do not have the latest version of the web browser on your computer.

Now, it seems that the future of Microsoft Office has been spread that normal users may have the opportunity to try out newer programs that were for business use such as the Office 365 service and this, the Outlook Web App.