Google’s Chrome browser is shining brightly, and it’s not hard to see why. First, the stats: According to the latest NetApplications figures, Chrome now has 6.7 percent of the browser market–a stunning rise from zero prior to 2009. Competing browsers are either treading water or, as in the case of Microsoft Internet Explorer, in precipitous [...]
Firefox 3.5 is now the most popular browser worldwide, edging past Internet Explorer 7, according to analytics site StatCounter.
The timing has favored FF3.5, however: IE7 usage has died off as people upgrade to IE8, meaning that Internet Explorer’s market share is currently spread equally across IE7 and IE8. Add together all versions of [...]
Just last week, Google finally released official betas for its Chrome browser for Mac and Linux. That release had a nice effect on market share for the browser, propelling it past Apple’s Safari and into third place.
Of course, third place — according to Net Applications — means 4.4 percent market share (Safari’sSafari market share is [...]
Both Firefox and Chrome have a new version out, fixing mostly stability issues and a couple of minor security vulnerabilities.
Firefox 3.5.5 brings several stability fixes, most importantly the notorious GIF decoder bug which sometimes caused the browser to crash. You can find a complete list of changes in this version here.
Chrome (Chrome) has a bit [...]
Opera released Mobile Browser 10 for nokia and other symbian smartphones, today the Norwegian software developer is following up on that release with that of the latest beta build of Opera Mobile, a custom browser specifically built to give Symbian and Windows Mobile equipped handset users a (much) more pleasant Web browsing experience.
The new Opera [...]
Google Chrome browser is now 30 million users strong, 30 million is certainly a big number, but it is still a tiny fraction of Internet Explorer or Firefox (which has 330 million users). NetApplications shows Chrome with only a 3.58 percent market share at the end of October, compared to 24 percent for Firefox and [...]
Google Chrome 4.0 graduates to beta status. More people will get a chance to try out bookmark synchronization with Monday’s release of a beta version of Google Chrome for Windows.
Google introduced the bookmark sync feature for the developer-preview version in August, but now it’s also in the better-tested beta version, Chrome 4.0.223.16. However, there’s still [...]
CoolPreviews is the top downloaded Firefox Addon and its reached 99,433 weekly downloads.
CoolPreviews is a free browser add-on that lets you preview links and rich media without leaving your current page. Simply mouseover any link or our CoolPreviews icon, and a preview window instantly appears with your content. No more clicking back and [...]
Mozilla late on Friday released the first beta of Firefox 3.6, a minor upgrade slated to wrap up later this year. Delayed by over two weeks as developers closed out last-minute bugs, including one that pushed the release back by several days last week, Firefox 3.6 Beta contains relatively few visible changes from June 2009’s [...]
Today brings the first release candidate for Mac Browser Camino 2, the new version of the browser. Camino is an open source web browser developed with a focus on providing a superior experience for Mac OS X users. Camino is built on open source technology, which means anyone can help in the development process. Would [...]