Google has begun to phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a cyber attack on the search engine. The firm said from 1 March some of its services, such as Google Docs, would not work “properly” with the browser. It recommended individuals and [...]
After a long gestation period, Opera has released version 10 of their browser, which comes packed with a whole lot of improvements and new features. It has a completely new interface, a turbo mode for those days of bandwith drought, automatic updates (finally!), and lots more.
Opera Turbo is the feature most prominently listed in promotional [...]
Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 3.5, calling it the best performing version of its popular web browser ever released, offering better JavaScript performance, private browsing, native support for open video and audio, and location aware surfing.
Built through Mozilla’s global, open source development process, Firefox 3.5 is said to be more than two times faster than [...]
Apple has released its final version of Safari 4 , which the company is billing as the “world’s fastest and most innovative web browser.”
Available for Mac and Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in February of this year, Safari 4 features the Nitro engine which runs JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than its [...]
Internet search giant Google has updated its popular slim-line Google Chrome website browser with the first major new release since its initial launch 8 months ago. Elsewhere the browser has also been updated to fix hundreds of stability bugs and can now run JavaScript-heavy web pages about 30% faster than before.
New Features
Improved New Tab Page: [...]
Google has pushed out an update for its Chrome browser that lances two vulnerabilities, one of which it defines as critical. Google Chrome contains a background updating function so the browser will update itself to the latest version, Chrome 1.0.154.64, unbeknownst to most users.
The critical flaw involves a failure to properly validate input from a [...]
Mozilla has released an updated version of Firefox that addresses nine security flaws, one of which earns the dreaded ‘critical’ rating. The critical flaw addressed by Firefox 3.09 involves a memory corruption problem.
The two “high-risk” flaws involve same-origin violation security bugs. The other six moderate or low risk flaws are detailed in Mozilla’s release [...]
Microsoft is to release its Internet Explorer 8 browser available today, along with a company-commissioned report claiming IE8 is more secure against malware than rival browsers from Mozilla and Google.
Users will be able to download IE8 in 25 languages at 5pm (GMT) from Microsoft’s IE Web site and its online download center.
Microsoft has been preparing [...]
Counting public betas and release candidates, there are a whopping nine different web browsers out today with enough market share to be considered mainstream.
Maximum PC explains the differences between the browsers, future and present, so that you can make a more informed decision about the primary tool you use to browse [...]
The latest web browser market share report from Net Applications:
65.55% – Internet Explorer
21.53% – Firefox
8.29% – Safari
1.12% – Chrome
0.70% – Opera
0.57% – Netscape
0.22% – Other
The report highlights further gains in Firefox (+0.19%) and Safari (+0.36%) users along with the continued drop in Internet Explorer users (-0.6%) since December 2008.
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