Weekly Browsers Recap, August 9th
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• July, 2010 – Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari Share Up; Firefox, Chrome – Down
As we enter August, it is time to yet again, check the latest market share numbers.
• U.K. Government Refuses to Ditch IE6
Back in February, 2010, the online petition was filled urging British government to dump a 9 year old web browser.
• IE9 Platform Preview 4 Beats Safari 5, Acid3 95/100
In what appears to be the final platform preview of Internet Explorer 9, IE Team has highlighted a bunch of improvements…
• Firefox Tab Candy for Google Chrome
TabSense is a Firefox Tab Candy inspired extension that allows you to group your tabs into separate categories.
• Firefox Heat Map: One Third of the Elements are Dead
Mozilla Labs has released a Firefox heat map which provides a great insight, revealing more information about daily browser functions usage.
• BlackBerry 6 Web Browser
In the official BlackBerry Blog, team has demonstrated some of the features that are coming to a WebKit powered, BlackBerry 6 web browser.
Bonus
- How IE9 Platform Preview Feedback Changed the JavaScript Standard
- Firefox 4 Beta 2 Brings Increased Support for CSS3 Transitions
- Hide and Recover the Firefox Menu Bar
- Gmail Adds More Drag and Drop Features, But Only in Chrome
- Google warns Chrome Canary is only for the brave
- Help us get rid of the old Opera icon
- Tab grouping in Opera
- Theoretical attacks exploit iOS browser flaw
- Study Warns Private Browsing Modes Can Be Bypassed
- Google Search Due to Firefox Default Settings Is Bigger Than Bing, Yahoo; Bidding War Coming Soon
Thanks to Ichann for links.
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