November, 2009 – Firefox, Opera and Chrome Market Share Goes Up; IE, Safari – Down
It’s a new month and few market share data. Let’s get it going.
Just like any other month, Internet Explorer market share keeps going down, this time it fell from 64.64% to 63.62% (1.02 point decrease).
With the upcoming Firefox 3.6 release, this browser increased its market share by 0.65 point, from 24.07% to 24.72%.
After previous gain in October, this time Safari‘s market share fell from 4.42% to 4.36% (0.06% decrease). Continue Reading
Microsoft Offers a Chance to Win a Laptop and Few Mouses
Surfing the web, I came across an interesting Microsoft ad (Lithuanian language).
What does it say?
Basically, if you download IE8 and register in the following site, you are eligible to win 1 out of 8 Microsoft Arc Mouses or Aspire 1410 Olympic Edition laptop.
Turns out, they were already giving away Lenovo laptop and Microsoft mouses some time ago as well.
What about IE8 market share in Lithuania? Continue Reading
Internet Explorer 9 Video from Microsoft PDC09
It’s time to see everything in action. Here is a speech from Microsoft’s PDC 2009 about IE9, upcoming features and few demos. Enjoy.
Part 1
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 30th
- IE6 and IE7 vulnerable to latest flaw; IE8 immune
- IE bug leaks private details from 50 million PDF files
- Firefox’s Plan to Kick the Login’s Butt
- Alex Faaborg’s Identity Mockup
- 10 Firefox Extensions Google Chrome Should Have Too
- Opera 10.10 closes “extremely severe” hole
- Almost 40 million people used Opera Mini last month
- Safari on iPhone gets competition from a $1 browser app
- OneWeb demonstrates the power of XMPP inside the browser
- Maxthon 2.5.10 Supports Multi-touch and other Windows 7 features
Thanks to mabdul and Nox for links.
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Internet Explorer 8 Blocks 2 Million Malicious Websites Daily
Dean Hachamovitch at IEBlog revealed that Internet Explorer 8 SmartScreen filter blocks over 2 million malicious sites every day. That’s quite a number.
SmartScreen offers protection against phishing and cross-site scripting attacks.
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Internet Explorer 8 for eBay
As Christmas approaches, Microsoft and eBay teamed up to release Internet Explorer 8, eBay edition.
This version offers 3 new features:
Daily deal updates, visual search and ability to search eBay using accelerator.
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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6 Beta 4
This morning, Mozilla has released one more beta of Firefox 3.6 web browser. Not only it fixes over 100+ bugs, but also includes a support for the HTML5 File API.
The final version or Firefox 3.6 should be ready be the end of this year.
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Opera 10.20 Alpha Revealed
Now that’s a pleasant surprise. Today, Opera Software has released first alpha build of Opera 10.20 web browser.
While 10.10 focused on Opera Unite, this version aims to improve Opera Widgets, as one of its new features allows running them beyond the web browser. As for now, they have not yet added any “non-wdiget” features.
For some more details and download links, please visit the following page.
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Browsers Hardware Rendering: Direct2D vs. “Regular” (GDI)
As you might know, Microsoft is planning to add hardware accelerated rendering to its upcoming Internet Explorer 9 release.
What about other web browsers? Well, Mozilla plans to do the same and ship final product faster than MS does.
Moreover, Bas Schouten has published interesting benchmark results: Direct2S vs. GDI
Mozilla’s 2008 Financial Statements
Few days ago, Mozilla Foundation has revealed their financial results for the year 2008.
As you can see, revenue is growing as well as software development expenses.
Download (.pdf).
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