Jane Seymour, world traveler

Jane Seymour is not only known to TV and movie viewers as “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” an elegant recent contestant on “Dancing with the Stars” and “Kitty Cat,” the boozy wife of a politician who tries to seduce Owen Wilson in “Wedding Crashers.” She’s also a wife and a mom, an accomplished painter, fly fisherman and golfer and a possessor of priceless rock n’ roll street cred because her English castle of a home — St. Catherine’s Court — hosted the recording of Radiohead’s critically acclaimed album, “OK Computer.” In addition to all this, she’s not surprisingly a seasoned world traveler. We got her on the phone recently to talk about where she’s been.

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Fastest Browser?

As you all know, I had computer problems a few weeks ago. Now that it has magically fixed itself, I would like your opinion of browsers. I currently use Sahara, but I've used Firefox and, of course, IE in the past.

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"The creature calmly took the rear-door handle between its teeth ... and pulled it open."

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Regardless of how you're trying to navigate, the on-screen keyboard seems to require more finger accuracy than the fault-tolerant keyboard on the iPhone (probably because of the smaller screen). The back button is hard to hit--I kept selecting the favorites menu by mistake.

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The new browser wars are on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5, which has now been downloaded nearly 14 million times.

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Apple has been desperately trying to turn Safari into a mainstream browser player. Unfortunately, its numbers simply don't compare to Firefox.

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Opera may be reinventing the web next week, but in the meantime the browser wars continue to rage on. Apple has come out with a news release claiming its latest browser, Safari 4, has topped 11 million downloads in the first three days of its release.

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"All in all, the poor update effectiveness of Apple Safari and Opera gives attackers plenty of time to use known exploits to attack users of outdated browsers," the researchers wrote.

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Although the new features are interesting, and I find them a big step up, what's significant in the bigger picture is that Google has shown just how powerful mobile Web browsers have become, not just for surfing Web pages, but for running Web-based applications.

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---Wanted to seed because it looks like the first seed had been deleted---

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Which web browser do you tend to use, and why? (Poll)

I am not a techhie person. I just go by feel and ease of use. I tend to use Safari, as I am a Mac user and, to me, it is the coolest and most awesome browser.

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A 25-year-old German graduate student who goes only by Nils has hacked Internet Explorer 8, along with Safari and Firefox, at CanSecWest's hacking competition. [...]

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Opening a new tab in a Web browser shows a lot of prime but empty real estate, and now the programmers behind Firefox are following their peers at Safari and Chrome in trying to make it more useful.

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A brilliant free bookmarklet that removes all the junk from a web page, allowing you to read the main text without distraction. If you like to read on the web, and not only surf, you'll enjoy this.

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Apple today announced the public beta of Safari 4, the world's fastest and most innovative web browser for Mac and Windows PCs.

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Fans of Apple computers often boast about superior security. But as Macs have gained in popularity over the past few years, this has brought much more attention from hackers.

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Preliminary statistics from Net Application show that Internet Explorer is losing more ground in the internet browser battle. It's not really surprising as Firefox, Safari and Chrome are all gaining popularity.

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Sites such as MySpace, Hulu.com, CrateandBarrel.com and Amazon.com all use Flash cookies to record some kind of information about their users.

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" Google Inc. is pushing users of its Gmail e-mail service to dump Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer for its own Chrome browser or Mozilla Corp.'s Firefox.

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Apple pushed out a security update of its Safari Browser today, addressing a number of issues on both the Windows and Mac based applications. The seeded article is Apple's overview of the updates implemented in version 3.2.

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Addressing a developer conference in Sydney Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was "interesting" and added "we may look at that."

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Firefox continues to move on up inching closer to 20% of the browser market share while Google Chrome is struggling to capture a mere 1% of the market. Here's a quick overview before we break it down further:

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Anybody remember when we had this many Web browsers to choose from on our desktops? Seven years ago people were pretty much limited to Microsoft's already-aging Internet Explorer or the far-more-antiquated Netscape.

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Apple calls it "Private Browsing." Microsoft calls it "InPrivate." Google's new Chrome browser calls it "Incognito." And yes, practically everyone else calls it "Porn Mode."

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Lars Bak, the Google engineer who was the technical leader for Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, said at the launch event Tuesday he's confident Chrome is "many times faster" than the rivals at running JavaScript, the programming language that powers Google Docs, Gmail, and many oth …

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