Web browser news as it happens
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22 Feb 2010Microsoft has begun testing of its new browser ballot screen for European Union countries.
The ballot screen, which can be seen at http://www.browserchoice.eu/, lists the 5 major browsers in a random order, followed by 8 lesser known browsers also in a random order.
Early testing by DSL.sk shows the ballot screen might not be as random as [...]
In: Chrome
12 Feb 2010Google Chrome developers have pushed out new code to Mac beta users allowing them access to bookmark sync and browser extensions, just over a month after these features made it to the dev channel.
Chrome 5.0.307.7 brings many new features to Mac, and also included updates for Linux users.
Mac users now have access to these new [...]
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12 Feb 2010Private browsing will now extend to the Flash plug-in with Flash Player 10.1 Adobe have announced.
“Integrating with your web browser, Flash Player 10.1 will automatically clear stored data in accordance with your browser’s private browsing settings” said Adobe Engineer Jimson Xu.
Flash Player 10.1 supports private browsing with Internet Explorer 8+, Mozilla Firefox 3.5+, and Google [...]
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3 Feb 2010Google has pushed out version 5 of Chrome to the dev channel for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Not much has changed so far, but Windows versions will now use the default download folder for downloading files, while the Mac version is now more stable with extensions.
Linux versions now include support for desktop notifications, along with improved [...]
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1 Feb 2010Time appears to slowly be running out for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), as Google has announced plans to drop support for the browser in its Google Sites and Google Docs applications.
“Many other companies have already stopped supporting older browsers like Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as browsers that are not supported by [...]
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27 Jan 2010Google has pushed out an update to its Chrome browser on Windows, taking it to version 4.0.249.78.
The update now includes extensions and bookmark sync in the stable version on Windows.
The update also addresses 11 security issues, 4 of which were rated as high severity, 2 medium, and 5 low.
New users can download Google Chrome from [...]
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8 Jan 2010Google overnight has updated the development channel version Google Chrome, this time turning on extensions for Mac.
This is new version is in addition to the beta version, which Mac users have been able to test for the last few weeks.
Almost 1,400 extensions are currently available for Chrome users.
Mac users wanting to test out extensions can [...]
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3 Jan 2010With 2009 now over, it’s time to analyse web browser market share over the last 12 months.
It’s been a big year for web browsers, with Internet Explorer taking a massive loss, down from 75.18% share in December 2008, to 62.69% share in December 2009.
Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera were all big winners, ending the year [...]
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17 Dec 2009With Chrome extensions having been available for one week now, we thought it would be good to take a look at the 10 most popular extensions for the week.
Collectively, these top 10 extensions have almost had just under 500,000 million downloads.
Google Mail Checker
With over 108,000 users, this extension displays the number of unread messages in [...]
In: Chrome
15 Dec 2009The Google Chrome team have pushed out a new update to Windows Google Chrome users.
The update is only minor, and corrects two bugs that caused the browser to crash. Full details can be found on the Google Chrome Releases blog.
As usual, the browser will automatically be pushed out to current Chrome users, or can be [...]