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Mozilla released yesterday Firefox 3.1 beta 1 to test the changes of the next version of the popular browser.

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After few days since the release of the first beta version, Google released today a new version of Chrome that fix some vulnerabilities recently discovered.

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Today Google released the first beta of its own browsers: Chrome. Considering the success of both Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari, the Big G’s browser will further ignite up the reborn “Browser Wars”.

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Yesterday, Tuesday, 22nd, Microsoft presented “Live Mesh” a Web 2.0 service for synchronizing files, folders, and Web-delivered content across multiple devices.

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PayPal is planning to start blocking users to access its services if they have older versions of their browser that do not support anti-phishing features. This decision is part of the big strategy that the famous on-line payment system provider is pushing in order to protect users from phishing attacks that would compromise their account.

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The new Google gadged may have not hit the market yet, but when it does it will already benefit from the availability of some third-party application.

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Adobe released this week the version 9.0.124.0 of its famous Flash Player in order to fix a security hole found during a hacking contest made few days ago.

While the major bug was related to the cross-domain content, the new version included a few other bug fixes as well, like the fix for a streaming content security issue and a “black triangles” issue with full-screen video on ATI video cards.

More information are available on the Security Advisory and the release notes.