![]() 360’s Investor Relations page sheds a little light on this: “Webkit increases the speed of opening web pages, while Trident improves the compatibility of our 360 browsers with online banking and video display web pages.”Īh-hah. But why? If you don’t understand the topography of the net in China, this seems like pointless feature-stuffing. The dropdown allows users to switch into “IE (compatibility) Mode”.ģ60 Secure also automatically switches back and forth between webkit and different IE modes on certain web pages. The lightning bolt icon represents “quick mode” - pages are loaded with webkit. By default, pages are loaded on a Webkit-based engine, but at any time, you can open up the little lighting-bolt symbol in the URL bar and choose to load the page in “IE Mode”. Dual-Coreģ60 Secure integrates both Webkit and Microsoft’s Trident layout engines. ![]() Now that I’m all suited up, let’s take a look at some of 360 Secure’s unique features. I’ve only ever used 360 on someone else’s machine, so I’m going to go ahead and open this in Sandboxie, a friendly little piece of code that “runs your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer”. There are plenty of excellent reasons for me to get under the hood here, but I’m not gonna lie: I’m a little scared to install this You’ll need to get familiar with its quirks, its HTML5 capacities, which CSS3 elements it supports, and all that good jazz. That means anyone developing an Eastern-facing product needs to know about - and test for - this browser. Plus, mercenary methods aside, a 27.84% slice of the user pie isn’t a stat front-end devs can afford to turn their back on. When the Chinese government finally put the kibosh on Google services over a year ago, Qihoo stepped up and released a mirror of the Google Fonts API, saving China-based devs a pretty big headache. Look, I’m not totally down on Qihoo as a company. Microsoft patches, forcibly deleting competitor products as “unsafe”, etc.” The report alsoĬontains more familiar charges like Qihoo products masquerading as official The user isn’t aware of even when it’s just loading a blank page. Users sketchy online payment sites are safe, and that it is making connections Users Windows DLL files, that it can expose users’ passwords, that it tells That Qihoo’s 360 Safe Browser contains a massive security flaw that messes with Released on the National Business Daily allegedly uncovers more shady tactics: “ The … report presents a laundry list of accusationsĪbout Qihoo software, backing many of them up with illustrated screenshotsĭemonstrating what’s going on behind the scenes. ![]() The actual, honest-to-goodness Qihoo 360 Browser logo.Ĭhinese critics leveled worse accusations. Of nine shameless power plays, which included forcibly blocking other browsersįrom becoming default, making uninstallation a huge pain, and totally stealing In earlyĢ012, Tech in Asia called attention to some research by New York firm Digital Due Diligence, raking Qihoo over the coals for a list For an anti-spyware company (Qihoo first entered the market with a malware protection suite that remains hugely successful today), Qihoo has released some seriously sketchy code. Let’s be real: the criticism isn’t unfounded. It’s even been called a “cancer of the internet”. Practices, practices that detractors say make it more akin to malware than software. Pundits who’ve criticized the browser for its dodgy install and propagation Most popular - IE (all versions, combined), Qihoo 360, Chrome, Safari, and the rest.īut 360 Secure also has a burgeoning stable of super-haters, Do you know what’s in third place? Chrome, with 7.74%. To Internet Explorer in mainland China, accounting for 27.84% of total desktop According to the tech analytics peeps over at CNZZ, Qihoo 360 Secure Browser (Windows-only for desktop) is second only Probably never crossed swords with, but it’s huge. One of the most popular desktop browsers in China is one you’ve
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