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Mac near 6.5% web share, while Safari reaches 5%

Published on: 8th November, 2011

The Mac reached a few web share record highs in September as a consequence of the back-to-school time, according to NetApplications. The Mac had one of its best gains during the past year and went up to 6.45 percent, about half a point more than before. Thanks to the new leap, the company’s stake in [...]

Mac and iOS conquer the web, equally IE9

Published on: 12th May, 2011

Last month, Apple made a big step, one of the best strides for web market share in recent memory, according to NetApplications. Thus, the company attained a new peak of 5.4 percent of market share, although its gains relative to iOS were small. Its combined mobile platform, lead by the iPhone, jumped about 16.5 percent [...]

Microsoft claims IE9 is the greenest browser

Published on: 8th April, 2011

Microsoft has made an interesting claim related to its Internet Explorer 9, characterizing it as the greenest browser. Using an IEBlog post, it published graphs of power consumption tests performed on Internet Explorer 9, Chrome 10, Firefox 4, Opera 11, and Safari 5. On an idle system, the first three browsers presented close numbers, but [...]

The final version of Firefox 4 to hit Android and triple Google’s browser speed

Published on: 31st March, 2011

Mozilla has recently posted the final variant of Firefox 4 for Android (free, Market), as well as for Nokia’s Maemo. This application uses much of the desktop engine and benefits from a JavaScript engine which guarantees to triple the speed of Google’s own stock browser. Multiple interface elements are borrowed from the desktop too (this [...]

Firefox 4 blows past Internet Explorer 9, over seven million downloads

Published on: 24th March, 2011

According to a live counter, since the official launch on March 22, 2011, Mozilla’s Firefox 4 web browser has already reached almost seven million downloads and counting. StatCounter claims that these numbers account for around two percent of the global Internet browser market and that Mozilla currently beats out Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 (only 2.3 [...]

Mozilla’s Firefox 4 launch made official

Published on: 24th March, 2011

While having recently let the software slip away, Mozilla has made the launch of its Firefox 4 official. Mac, Linux and Windows variants are available, also in several different languages, ranging from mainstays such as French, Chinese and English to less normally-supported languages such as Catalan and Icelandic. Only some languages are currently limited to [...]

Mozilla to adopt Chrome-like approach for Firefox updates

Published on: 3rd March, 2011

Mozilla is expected to change the manner it handles the updates for its Firefox browser and would probably adopt a Google Chrome-like approach. Google is releasing small updates immediately after they become available, while Mozilla prefers to wait and group them in a larger update. According to Jay Sullivan, Mozilla’s vice president of product, Firefox [...]

Native Client SDK of Google enables full applications on Chrome browser

Published on: 23rd February, 2011

Google recently posted an initial SDK for its promised Native Client. Developers will be able to use the kit to put native applications written in C and C++ into a feature of the Chrome browser supporting many stand-alone applications which include multi-core processor support, direct memory access and 3D. Unlike some earlier versions of ActiveX [...]

Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate is available for download

Published on: 20th February, 2011

As Microsoft promised, it has made the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate build available for eventual downloads. The new software can be downloaded in 40 languages and includes the results of about 17,000 pieces of feedback from beta testers. Microsoft claims an increased speed on real-world websites, compiler optimizations, a quicker JavaScript engine as well [...]

Introduction of Opera for iPad at Mobile World Congress

Published on: 20th February, 2011

The Norway-based browser Opera, which has been more successful as a standard browser on mobile phones than as a browser on desktops, will be present with a version dedicated to the iPad in Barcelona, Spain, at the Mobile World Congress. The announcement of the company is accompanied by plans for new versions of Opera Mini [...]

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