Weekly Browsers Recap, Feb 3rd
- Microsoft’s Automatic Update – the way to browser competition?
- ThinkPad users beware of Internet Explorer hang problems
- MS Propping Up Browser Dominance
- Further Windows Mobile 6.5 screenshots leak: IE mobile gets new controls
- Ultimate fix for a Firefox update failure
- Google Updates Firefox Toolbar with Personalized Tab Page
- Twitterbar Firefox add-on
- Bang On: Firefox, you’re kind of ugly
- Firefox and Chrome Clickjacked
- Google fakes out Hotmail for Chrome support
- Google Chrome for Mac is a Hack
- Can Opera Beat Microsoft In The Browser Wars?
Web Browsers Nostradamus, Year 2010
Ever wondered what would browsers market share look like in the Jan, 2010? Well, using simple moving average trend and drawing a line between it’s easy to check that. So here’s how it would look like if there won’t be any drastic changes, such as “Internet Explorer come back”.
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Internet Explorer, Opera Loses, Firefox, Safari, Chrome Gains, Jan 2009
It is time to check how web browsers market share is doing in the first month of 2009.
Internet Explorer continues its trend with a loss of 0.6%, from 68.15 to 67.55.
Firefox has grabbed an extra of 0.19% market share, from 21.34% to 21.53%
The biggest gainer this month is Safari with an increase of 0.36%, from 7.93% to 8.29% Continue Reading
Firefox 3.1 Delayed (Again)
Mozilla has delayed Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 release again, stating new JavaScript engine bugs as the main reason.
There are still 18 bugs which need to be fixed before new beta.
New release date should be revealed within few days.
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Chrome 2, Webkit 4 and Firefox 3.1 beats IE 8 and Opera 10
ZDNet Australia has compared the following web browsers in SunSpider (yet again) and Google V8 2 benchmarks:
Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1)
Firefox 3.1b1 (although b2 was released some time ago)
Chrome 2.0.158.0
WebKit r40220
Opera 10.00 Alpha
Results are actually quite interesting, when you compare IE 8 RC1 with Opera 10 Alpha. Continue Reading
How Secure Is Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Opera?
Infoworld inspected all the major web browsers and got some really interesting points to say about each of them.
Here are conclusions for each of the web browsers (also, links to full articles):
How Secure is Internet Explorer?
IE has no peer in enterprise deployment features. Using the Internet Explorer 8 Deployment Guide, administrators can deploy and configure more than 1,300 IE-related settings via Active Directory Group Policy or the Internet Explorer Administration Kit. It is the only browser in the review to support Kerberos authentication over the Web. Continue Reading
New Google Chrome Ads on YouTube, Facebook
Stephen Shankland has spotted new Google Chrome ads on YouTube and Facebook.
Instead of displaying Chrome ads just on the right side of page, Google has decided to promote it during video playback as well.
On Facebook, Google Chrome appears on Boggle-like Scramble game. Continue Reading
Fun Continues: Microsoft, EU and Opera Software
According to TheRegister.co.uk, the European Commission may force PC users to choose between Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and other browsers when they set up a new machine.
Shareholders were also warned about a “significant” (probably more than 1 billion) fine by EU. I guess that money will fill up some holes in EU budget, especially during recession.
Microsoft also said that such a ruling might require that OEMs distribute browsers from the company’s rivals along with IE on new PCs.
Also, Microsoft might be required to disable “certain unspecified Internet Explorer software code” if the user chooses a competing browser.
I wonder how many web browsers there will be. 4 most popular or hundreds of them to avoid law suits from other web browser makers….
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Opera Mini 4.2 for Android Released
Opera has launched today the final version of Opera Mini 4.2 for Android, currently the only phone with it is the T-Mobile G1 phone. Now we are waiting Opera Mini for iPhone…
Well, here is the change log since the beta version: Continue Reading
