Multiple Firefox processes. Gill Penney Internet Explorer and Chrome both use a multiprocess architecture to enhance stability and security. They separate the task of parsing and rendering Web pages from the job of drawing the browser on-screen, saving downloaded files, creating network c ...

Change.org petition Last week, AOL announced the impending death of Winamp, saying that the 16-year-old media player would be shut down within a month. “Winamp.com and associated Web services will no longer be available past December 20, 2013. Additionally, Winamp Media players wil ...

As the company continues to court programmers developing on software stacks that aren’t its own, Microsoft has released a plugin for Visual Studio that provides extensive support for Node.js within the Visual Studio IDE. The Apache-licensed Node.js Tools for Visual Studio offer editing wi ...

Diagram showing how Tomdep receives commands and spreads to new machines. Symantec Researchers have identified new self-replicating malware that infects computers running the Apache Tomcat Web server with a backdoor that can be used to attack other machines. Java.Tomdep, as the backdoor w ...

Ubuntu 13.10. Mir, Canonical’s replacement for the X window system, will not make it into the next version of the Ubuntu desktop. Canonical initially planned to turn Mir on by default in Ubuntu 13.10, the version shipped in October 2013, but it was dropped due to compatibility problem ...