The Browser Guru

Website Archiving in Japan

The Browser Guru — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:23:57 +0000

Following a successful year running its Functional and Cross Browser Website Testing services in Japan, Cloud Testing (www.cloudtesting.com) has announced it is now launching its Website Archiving service in Japan.

More details will be available at the specific website: http://www.website-archive.jp/

FSA Website Archiving Regulation

The Browser Guru — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:18:56 +0000

The UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) lists its regulations and guidance regarding website archiving in its ‘Conducting Of Business Sourcebook’ (COBS).

COBS 4 covers ‘Communicating with clients, including financial promotions’ and COBS 5 covers ‘Distance communications’, both of which have state the information that need to be stored.

More information will become available at three specialist sites being set up to help FSA regulated businesses through the process of complying -

http://www.fsa-website-compliance.com/

http://www.fsa-compliance.com/

http://www.fsa-website-archiving.com/

Useful links for Cloud Testing and Archiving

The Browser Guru — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:38:53 +0000

Monitoring

Archive/History

Compliance

FINRA

FRCP

HIPPA

FISMA

http://www.fisma-compliance.org

NI31-103

http://www.ni31-103-compliance.com

SOX

Load

WebMonitor247

http://www.webmonitor247.com

RSS

File / Document

97% of Chrome users running the latest version

The Browser Guru — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:15:17 +0000

According to “Why Silent Updates Boost Security” (download PDF), 97% of Chrome users were running the latest version of the browser within 21 days of the last update’s release.

By comparison, 85% of Firefox users were up-to-date in the same span, while only 53% Safari users could say the same.

Firefox 3.6.8 released

The Browser Guru — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:49:28 +0000

Security Advisories Fixed in Firefox 3.6.8:

MFSA 2010-48 Dangling pointer crash regression from plugin parameter array fix

From http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox36.html

FINRA Compliance

The Browser Guru — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:06:55 +0000

FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) was created in July 2007 with the consolidation of the regulation enforcement and arbitration functions of the New York Stock Exchange with the National Association Of Securities Dealers (NASD).

FINRA in conjunction with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are regulatory agencies for the financial services industry in the United States.

To be compliant with the guidelines, storage, retrieval and surveillance solutions need to be in place. Some of the guidelines include: SEC 17a-3 and 17a-4, NASD 3010 and 3110, NYSE 342, 440 & 442 and SEC RIA 204-2 and 206(4)-7.

Firefox 3.6.6

The Browser Guru — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:21:21 +0000

Firefox 3.6.6 modifies the crash protection feature to increase the amount of time that plugins are allowed to be non-responsive before being terminated.

Firefox gets crash protection with release of version 3.6.4

The Browser Guru — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:13:00 +0000

Firefox 3.6.4 has been released with crash protection for Adobe’s Flash Player, Apple ‘s QuickTime and Microsoft ‘s Silverlight plug-ins, and is available only in Firefox for Windows and Linux . Mozilla is still working on the “out of process plug-ins,” or OOPP feature, for the Mac version.

The version also patches nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical.

Firefox 3.5.10

The Browser Guru — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:11:00 +0000

Firefox 3.5.10 has been released – it patches nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical.

Safari 5.0

The Browser Guru — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:10:51 +0000

This update contains new features including:

Safari Reader: Click on the new Reader icon to view articles on the web in a single, clutter-free page.
Improved Performance: Safari 5 executes JavaScript up to 25% faster than Safari 4. Better page caching and DNS prefetching speed up browsing.
Bing Search Option: New Bing search option for Safari’s Search Field, in addition to Google and Yahoo!.
Improved HTML5 support: Safari supports over a dozen new HTML5 features, including Geolocation, full screen for HTML5 video, closed captions for HTML5 video, new sectioning elements (article, aside, footer, header, hgroup, nav and section), HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource, WebSocket, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, and HTML5 Ruby.
Safari Developer Tools: A new Timeline Panel in the Web Inspector shows how Safari interacts with a website and identifies areas for optimization. New keyboard shortcuts make it faster to switch between panels.

Other improvements include:

Smarter Address Field: The Smart Address Field can now match text against the titles of webpages in History and Bookmarks, as well as any part of their URL.
Tabs Setting: Automatically open new webpages in tabs instead of in separate windows.
Hardware Acceleration for Windows: Use the power of the computer’s graphics processor to smoothly display media and effects on PC as well as Mac.
Search History with Date: A new date indicator in Full History Search shows when webpages were viewed.
Top Sites/History Button: Switch easily between Top Sites and Full History Search with a new button that appears at the top of each view.
Private Browsing Icon: A “Private” icon appears in the Smart Address Field when Private Browsing is on. Click on the icon to turn off Private Browsing.
DNS Prefetching: Safari looks up the addresses of links on webpages and can load those pages faster.
Improved Page Caching: Safari can add additional types of webpages to the cache so they load quickly.
XSS Auditor: Safari can filter potentially malicious scripts used in cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
Improved JavaScript Support: Safari allows web applications that use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to run faster and more securely.

For more information about fixes that improve performance, stability and compatibility, please see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4135.

For detailed information on the security content of this update, please visit this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.