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Opera's new browser version: Chrome seed goes to

On 11 February published by the Norwegian browser Opera Software ASA forging the new beta of its Opera Web browser Version 10.50. And yet while it was only discussed in the press averaging that the new version is much faster than previous ones, is now on the download page the 'fastest browser in the world' spoken. Independent sites such as Computerworld confirm this claim by comparing with the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark. But what the whole thing with the Google Browser 'Chrome' has to do?

The quantum jumps of the alternative browser

Next: What are the alternative browser? These are all the web browser that is not the Microsoft Internet Explorer. Because of MSIE, as it is abbreviated below, remains the undisputed top dog in the browser business. And all the other so that only 'alternative', even if the market share of the crumbling MSIE obviously continuous.

have since 2008 carried out all the 'alternative browser' huge performance leaps, especially in the area of JavaScript performance. Here are the messages:

• Firefox: The press release for version 3.5 of 30.06.2009 says that the new version ' two times faster than version 3' is and 'strongly enhanced JavaScript Performance' having. With version 3.5 was the TraceMonkey engine introduced
• Safari: Apple claims today continue that Safari is the fastest with his Nitro Engine Web browser. This new engine was introduced with version 4, according PCTipp they should ' Javascript to run up to 4.5 times faster' than the version third The message dates from June 2009.
• Opera: For completeness, once the press release on Version 10.50 Beta : 'more than eight times faster than its predecessor' to the browser by the new engine be Carakan

How come suddenly this huge speed improvements, claiming not only real but are they? The impetus for this has certainly give Google with the unexpected release of their own Chrome browser in September 2008. Here's a video from Google to Launch:

The Chrome browser also brought with its own JavaScript engine, called V8 . In the English Wikipedia can be read that Chrome to version 1.0 immediately pushed forward to the performance peak and quasi-immediate reactions to the other browser vendors led. The next version jumps then took each other speed increases. With Chrome, therefore, the race started at the crown at the Javascript performance, which continues today.

Google's goals are always achieved the fastest document to have browsers in the world on offer, and

In light of the allegations at least from Apple and Opera, which is still better performance of Chrome for certain tests such as the V8 Benchmark Suite : what role it plays really, who really provides the fastest web browser? For Google, it probably plays no role!

Even if Chrome never will be the browser for the majority of internet users decide, so Google Chrome yet by the ponderous become providers of alternative browsers, which had always compared only with the antediluvian Microsoft's products, has given a swift kick. When it has in previous years, where ever such an intense wave of innovations in this area?

And all these innovations only ensure that Web-based applications like Google Apps will be even better to use, yet can get more features and so the idea is still gaining more weight to move all services and applications to the Web. And the Web happens to be the site earns revenue from the Google money.

It's Google Therefore, with Chrome probably not really about the medium or long term, certainly not in the short term, the market leader among browser vendors to be. The malice that was on Google for the slow start of Chrome poured from time to time, was therefore too short-sighted: Chrome is essentially the seed that was sown in the other browser vendors, and after one and a half years, it has all germinated and the expected to fruition. Not only the market leader:

And what is the market leader?

Microsoft, as presumably both unpopular tester as well as the greatest browser provider, has so far not connected to the big race and is now in terms of performance, functionality and standards compliance at the very end. Chrome has the seeds still can not put down roots?

is reasonable to assume that Microsoft has seen in Web-based and possibly also free services like Google Apps or Zoho a threat to its cash cows like the Office package and the development of performance to but not by one, and even with Windows included wanted to promote a web browser. Perhaps you may have been underestimated in Redmond, the dynamics of these new services, especially when they are pushed by powerful opponents such as Google, which seem to be not to rely on for their users to require every day becoming more efficient services money.

But even Microsoft is now using products such as Sharepoint or Office Live the way to the web, and it will gradually be embarrassed if you recommend our customers to achieve optimal performance take to have any Web browser, but in no case, by the house is offered. A Rest will probably do the rest of the EU that Microsoft is forcing users of MS Windows to set up a way to select the Web browser.

And in fact, it seems Microsoft with the next version 9 of the MSIE again catch up to competitors to want to find in the IEBlog is an article of the charts with performance comparisons with previous IE versions and the competition has. Accordingly, the IE9 is still slower than the alternatives, but not much. And he is still at an early stage.

What next

It looks like the chrome seed actually seems to be working at all locations. In any case, the browser war will intensify again to go further and this beautifully illustrated History of Web Browsers can be continued long.

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The difficulty of a good security question in the era of social networks

Although people are, by and by, in all kinds of social networks, online shops, financial services, and soon the Hairdresser next door clicks digital identities together, you stand at the beginning again and again facing the same questions:

1. What username should I give to me?
2. Which password is secure enough in this case?
3. What if I forgot my username or password (or both)?

Question 1 is usually easy to answer today, as it is used as the user in many websites simply the email address (those who have more than one e-mail address: your own fault:). Question 2 is potentially complicated and is therefore most probably with ' I use the same password everywhere ' answers, perhaps with a variation between a password for very important pages and one for the rest

Question 3, however, offers the most flexibility: Here are all possible methods that turn the core question that as a poor, forgetful of a drip anonymous, to prove other side of the world must domiciled website that you are ICH. Said they had never to this site more traffic than a few mouse clicks and entering some information (name, address, bank account), has reviewed this site may never.

Since not all pages after the procedure ' Forgot your password? I do not care, I'm just a new login to ... process' must be one can necessarily deal with this issue. And a method that one encounters again and again, the security question .

What is the idea of the security question?

is Setting the query it comes to the web page the Passwortvergesser presents a question they should answer or anything. Now the site is already a prior question, namely ' Parole! '(or more precisely,' username and password '!) That could not answer.

The security question, however, the idea that here is a question that which is used fully in the life of Passwortvergessers. So for example, ' What is the name of your mother? ', other examples below. The type of question, which one also can not answer then, if you have after a one-handed circumnavigation of the globe really forget everything else.

At this point it is important to emphasize again the relevance of the security question is: Who can answer correctly, can take over the account and then there will be really difficult to go to his digital identity. The choice of the security question must therefore be taken as seriously as the password. And here the problem begins ... What

is actually still a good security question, where we give it everything known about us in Facebook, Twitter, Buzz and Co.?

The security questions are there sites that offer a fixed selection of question suggestions and sites where you can formulate a separate issue, and pages with two options. difficult to assess which option is better: in any case, it's all about a question to find that you can answer even still after you forget everything else, which is but for strangers, and perhaps for less stranger a hard nut .

was only logical, therefore, been questions about the private conditions, just because private in the old days = secret was. When you register with another Internet service, I stood for the first time seriously face the question of which of the predetermined questions probably would truly as security question come into question, especially given my use of various social networks, blogs, etc. A good starting point for an overview, even for an attacker, here is my Google Profile .

Although the considerations here are individual, they are also to be understood at some generalized questions. Perhaps considering the reader about the reader in parallel to perform like the answer from his / her term would?

questions on the family

This group includes questions such as:

• What is your mother's maiden name? (A question that is based on the assumption that mothers are married over and change her name at marriage)
• How is the second first name of your father?
• In which year your parents married?

appears this kind of question to me unsafe in several ways: The name of my mother can be found in our latest blog Café, probably is found in those publications of her stories also a reference to their birthplace. In this tiny place you can count the few farms on one hand and find out the name. Also, the full name of the father should not be a really serious problem.

The wedding date is at first glance perhaps a little more secure because we have not yet occurred to any pictures of family events with titles such as silver wedding 19XX or so online. On the other hand, can be reasonably sure about my age close to the wedding year and my age can again be elicited roughly about the data to my education (eg university degree). Or directly from my Facebook account.

In all questions to the family then you have to take into account also that close relatives also have representative offices in social networks and there might be just the answer to divulge their own security question. Hence my conclusion: Rather no safety issue with respect to the family.

questions on pets

The next group of questions is somewhat similar to the previous, except that they do not turn to human family members, but animal:

• What is the name of your first pet?
• What is the name of your dog / cat of your / your horse?

This question may possibly by Category Using the social networks are easily answered. For me it would not hard, as our current pet is and what kind of pet is. In particular, photo albums here are perhaps especially revealing, if somewhere THE ANIMAL creeps into the picture and then maybe even mentions in the subtitle.

And then I still have the special problem that I can not remember my pets from veeery earlier (were just too many on the farm).

questions on educational background or professional

In this category I would like to sort questions like the following:

• What is the name of your first school?
• Who was your favorite teacher in school?
• Who was your first boss?

The question of all schools, colleges, nurseries and other educational institutions so is one that starts in a Facebook same, and one can avoid difficult (otherwise it is not so fun). And to answer the question of what teachers are there to which school you can use or a la spickmich.de . Ok, that works now no one wants to determine if the teachers of my old school, but for today's generation of trainees in school and you should therefore get very far.

Even the professional resume should / will be naturally present as extensive as possible, not only on Facebook, but also in the plain old curriculum vitae, which is of course the net. The question of the first boss in a company could still outsiders might be difficult to answer, if found on the company's web site is not comprehensive representations of their own leadership structures in the historical context.

In my case, to answer this question very easily, it is enough to read the CV.

questions possessions

Rounding out the small list now is a fourth variety of issues and thus concludes: From

• which Type and what color was your first car?
• What's your first frequent flyer number?
• What number does your Bibliotheksauswweis?

This category of questions has, in my view the major problem in most cases you can not use it because you have no car, no frequent flyer and has lost his old identity from the public library years ago.

When asked about the first car and its color, which I had actually taken into consideration, I made clear to me then two individual problems:

1. What for me is actually the first Car? The family car that you could borrow before, or the small car that had actually paid for itself? And
2. How should I formulate my answer? ' Opel, green ' or ' a green Opel Corsa ' or, or ...

At this point, a further problem of prompt visible: How sure am I that I have the same question in a few years back in the same way, both content and answer in the form that will? Or have a space would be enough, more or less to the website with rejects?

security question: Quo vadis?

After all the doubts about the safety of the security issues: what to do? Ultimately, it depends how much in all security matters on their own paranoia, particularly in relation to the real social environment: will I already anticipate that my friend maybe someday my ex and I may then want to play very badly? How unromantic. Or do I want the option of a nice roommate sleeping in the WG consider vengeance demon who would forget after a lot of rinsing to resort to electronic blackmail?

Simpler is probably a different depending on the importance of the application procedure: When a website on which it is a matter of course you can take any question and they answer correctly or completely arbitrary.

Entering any (= random) response but can also be a strategy for the very important pages are: if you look at the random answer notes or, better write down and somewhere safely stored (preferably in passwords;), there is such a safe and barely cracking way to restore his account access.

Or you do not notice the random answer! In this case, the back door security question put to an end and it can not be used by evil foreigners (but not of oneself). Then you have to write just that password and safe place. And if the problem of the password is never-lose-more-solved, there is also really no longer a need for a security check:)