Safari

Distraction-free tweeting? It can be done! Alas, a solution: Twipster is a browser extension for Chrome and Safari that brings the micromessaging site back to the bare necessities. Twipster completely transforms Twitter.com by replacing distracting backgrounds with a simple white backdrop and increasing text size to make tweets more readable.

With Twipster, Twitter becomes more responsive, too — you'll be able to read those pithy messages no matter what size the window is. The way you interact with tweets is unchanged. Twitter cards still expand to show a preview of the link or image attached, and you can still reply, retweet, favorite, email, and embed to your heart's content.

What's missing are the trending topics, who to follow, and photo and video nodes on the left. Tweets, following, followers, favorites, and lists have been moved to the top of the page.

Add the browser extension to Chrome or Safari, and Twipster will wipe away all of those unnecessary distractions automatically. Ahhh . . . clean and simple, just how we like it. Are you a Redditor, too? Check out these minimalist mobile apps for "the front page of the Internet."

The Internet is all about sharing information — that's why it was created in the first place! — but oftentimes we share details about ourselves without even knowing it, like what sites we visit and how often. Protecting online privacy is important, which is why Mozilla Firefox started an initiative called Do Not Track, a browser feature that prevents advertisers and marketing companies from obtaining data about users' online activities. Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, and Opera have already adopted Do Not Track, and as of this week, Google Chrome is making good on its promise to add the feature by the year's end.

Keep your online browsing history private and find out how to enable Do Not Track in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Opera after the jump.

Two bits of good Safari news this morning — first, Apple has released another update (Safari 5.0.1) to fix that pesky AutoFill problem we reported a few days ago, and second, the Safari Extensions gallery is officially open for business!

Firefox users have been enjoying sweet extensions for a while now (while Chrome users' extension choices have been rapidly expanding), and Apple has finally jumped on the wagon to allow developers to create helpful and fun extensions to make browsing easier. There's 16 different categories already up and running, and here, I'll tell you which ones you should consider adding on first. Check them out below!

• Twitter for Safari — The official Twitter extension for Safari brings trending tweets to your webpage, and easily tweet about what you're reading with a quick link and URL shortener.
• Woot Checker — Keep a constant eye on Woot with this extension, which notifies you when there's a new item up for grabs.
• Delicious Safari — Quickly send links to your Delicious account.

See the rest of my picks when you read more.

A digital security investigator has uncovered a major security flaw in Apple's Safari browser that gives away your personal information (like name, address, phone number, email address, country, etc.) via your Safari's AutoFill settings. This flaw affects Safari v.4 and the new feature-filled v.5.

What Happens
When you fill in your information on a website — say, you register for a product or newsletter and enter your name, email address, etc. — you can choose to have your details saved to Safari to autofill any information boxes later. It's this feature that allows malicious websites to gain access to your information, without you even clicking on anything or entering any info whatsoever, by extracting your Address Card data, and sending the details to the attacker. The whole process takes only seconds.

Find out how to protect yourself after the break.

Ladies, Fab reader TyJns is here to prove that safari chic is alive and well. Her outfit is muted, but so not blah. Check how great the army green top looks with her blush shorts. A brown braided belt, tan clutch, and deep purple pumps tag along for the stylish safari adventure.

Congrats to TyJns!

Everyone else, submit your looks, and I might feature you on FabSugar!

Just over a year after its launch, Google Chrome has made quite an impact on your Internet browsing. Taking over the title as third most used browser from Safari, Chrome users now inhabit nearly five percent of the browser market, according to a recent report. Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser commands over 60 percent of Internet usage, and Firefox takes a 24 percent market share, Chrome has been a fast riser to the top of the browser game.

I use Chrome on a regular basis on my home computer (although it is still a little buggy), but I find it an easy transition to make from Firefox (the browser I use most at work). But what about you — are you using Google Chrome? What do you like or dislike about it?

Just because a look is casual that doesn't mean it isn't party apropos. Sophia Bush graced the red carpet for the OP campaign launch party in a getup fit for an urban safari. And let's take a moment to admire her fit stems — nice. It's refreshing to see something utilitarian and cool, versus dolled up and decked. Because of her basics — army-green shorts, white tank, brown blazer — the outfit required some glam, which she delivered via sexy crisscross Miu Miu sandals, a cascading gold necklace, and dainty clutch. The right mix of casual and lady will lead you to your very own faboo urban safari. Safe travels!

Snow Leopard, Apple's new operating system, shows us that computing can be easy, not to mention fun! One new feature of Snow Leopard is Doc Exposé. Similar to the Exposé you know and love, Doc Exposé lets you single out documents or files that are open in specific applications.

Snow Leopard also boasts an upgraded Safari 4, which includes the new Top Sites feature that allows you to see a window of your favorite websites, as well as full-screen, full-color browsing history. It also features Stacks, which lets you organize faster and easier, and a sleek new Quicktime Player that lets you scrub through videos and movies right inside Quicktime. One last cool feature that stood out to me, though, was that after you install Snow Leopard, you'll actually get 6 GB of memory space back to fill with photos, movies, documents, whatever you want! It doesn't get any better than that.