Google’s Chrome continues to gain market share according to Net Applications data. It market share has increased 3.7 percentage points to 5.22 percent from the year ago period. Last month it surpassed Apple’s Safari as the third most popular web browser behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox. Internet Explorer market has continued to decline. [...]
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Google’s Chrome Continues to Gain Market Share
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Developer Preview of Google’s Chrome Released for Mac and Linux
Friday, June 5th, 2009Google has released the first version of their web browser Chrome for Mac and Linux, plans these were announced last September when Google introduced the Windows version of Chrome. The version released is “developer preview,” Google’s destination for releases that are least stable and designed for testing new features. The version released is missing many [...]
Internet Explorer 6 has Enterprise Market Share of 46.8 Percent
Friday, May 1st, 2009Internet Explorer 6 has a market share of 46.8 percent in enterprises according to research by Forrester Research as reported by CNET. Internet Explorer 6’s enterprise market share is significantly higher than its market share among all users. According to Net Applications in April it had a market share of 17.52 percent. Market share for [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Market Share Reaches 4.63 Percent a Month After Release
Monday, April 20th, 2009A month after Internet Explorer 8’s release it had a market share of 4.63 percent of worldwide web browser share according to Net Applications. This was an increase of 3.18 percent of market share from the 1.45 percent Internet Explorer 8 had on release date of March 19. Those number include users using pre-release versions [...]
Microsoft Announces Plan for Roll Out of Internet Explorer 8
Monday, April 13th, 2009Microsoft today announced its plan to roll out Internet Explorer 8 to Microsoft’s Windows Update and Automatic Update software update services. According Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 will begin to show up in the update services “on or about the third week of April” and the show up for “a narrow audience and expand over time [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Released
Thursday, March 19th, 2009Microsoft today released Internet Explorer 8, coming less than two months after the Release Client was released. The new version renders web pages in standards compliant mode by default and Microsoft claims that the new version is the browser that is most complaints with the CSS 2.1 standard. The browser provides a compatibility mode for [...]
Apple Releases Safari 4 Public Beta
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4 for Mac OS X and Windows. The new version introduces HTML 5 support for offline technologies, support for advanced CSS Effects including reflections, gradients, and precision masks, and improved JavaScript performance. Apple claims that new version runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3, more than [...]
Opera Getting Faster JavaScript Engine
Thursday, February 5th, 2009Opera has announced that they are developing a new JavaScript engine for their web browser that will be significantly faster than the current version. The new version is being designed to achieve maximum execution speed, while previous engine was designed to minimize code footprint and memory usage. To accomplish the goal the new engine will [...]
Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Released
Monday, January 26th, 2009Microsoft today made Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 available for public download. According to a post on the IEBlog, the release candidate should behave in the same way as the final version and that any changes between the two will be clearly communicated. The post also said that the release candidate has improved reliability, [...]
Opera 10 Alpha Released
Thursday, December 4th, 2008Opera has released the first alpha version of Opera 10, which introduces a new version of the Presto engine, according to a post on the Opera Desktop Team blog. The new version of Presto, 2.2, receives a perfect score in the Acid3 test, a test of compliance with web standards. The only other engine that [...]
