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Google Chrome is now officially the top browser in the world, at least judging by StatCounter data. Last week Chrome overtook Internet Explorer for the entire period for the first time in history. Google Chrome has been more popular than IE in the weekends and saw its market share constantly grow larger, week after w... |
21 May 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team has kicked off yet another project aimed at bringing to the spotlight the capabilities of their browser. Partnering with Fox Studios, the team has launched the initiative as the Project Prometheus Training Center, which was designed entirely using HTML5. Based on the hypot... |
17 May 2012
11:39 GMT |
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When released to the general public in a final flavor, Windows 8 will bring along a new flavor of Internet Explorer, with new features and capabilities packed inside. Dubbed Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), the new browser was made available as a preview in the pre- and beta versions of Windows 8, offering users the po... |
15 May 2012
08:56 GMT |
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The browser market is evolving, at its own pace, but only two browsers are really moving, Chrome and IE, one up the other down. Judging by StatCounter numbers, Chrome is set overtake IE within months.In fact, it's already bigger than IE, if only for a day or two at a time. Chrome first overtook IE on a Sunday a ... |
1 May 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Google Chrome just keeps on growing, well according to some data sources, and it's now getting close to overtaking Internet Explorer to become the most used browser in the world.
StatCounter's latest data shows that Chrome, while slowing down, is only months away from becoming the world's biggest brow... |
1 May 2012
12:51 GMT |
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The latest batch of updates for Windows computers and other products from Microsoft brought along a series of security patches for Internet Explorer as well, to fix a series of flaws discovered to affect all versions of the application following IE6.A total of five vulnerabilities were patched with this update; the m... |
11 April 2012
10:51 GMT |
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On Tuesday, April 10th, 2012, Microsoft released a new security patch for its products, as part of the monthly updates it has been pushing out for the past years. The new security release includes no less than six bulletins, just as announced last week in an advance notification, and patches a total of eight Critic... |
11 April 2012
05:49 GMT |
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Gambit, the hacker that recently identified some serious XSS vulnerabilities in sites such as Edmodo and HP, confronted Microsoft regarding the lack of cross-site scripting (XSS) filters in the MSN Explorer browser. MSN Explorer is a browser, similar to Internet Explorer, which integrates some features like Windows ... |
7 April 2012
09:21 GMT |
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According to a recent study by New Relic, Internet Explorer 9 is the fastest browser on the planet, at least on Windows. Overall though, Chrome 13 on Mac, is the fastest around.
The surprising results don't end here, the study further showed that Opera Mini, running on BlackBerry, offers performance that most d... |
5 April 2012
13:11 GMT |
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There's a rather heated competition between desktop browsers, even if the pace of change is rather slow. Since launch, Google Chrome has been growing, Firefox has been staying put for a couple of years now and Internet Explorer is losing market share. That's the general trend, but things changed in the pas... |
3 April 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Google Chrome lost market share for the third month in a row, while Internet Explorer saw a small bump in usage, continuing the positive trend of late. Firefox though slipped even further down in March.
The latest numbers from Net Applications tell an increasingly familiar story. Google Chrome, which has been growin... |
2 April 2012
05:44 GMT |
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With Windows 8 Microsoft also introduced a new version of its Internet Explorer browser, namely IE10, which was designed to change the way in which users browse the web.
The application was meant to work both as Metro-style software, as well as as a desktop browser, as we are all accustomed to on the current Windo... |
28 March 2012
10:41 GMT |
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To celebrate the debut of The Hunger Games movie, Microsoft and Lionsgate came up with a special website that enables fans to access new, exclusive content straight from their home computers. The website, called The Capitol Tour, is accessible at http://thecapitoltour.pn, and offers a variety of elements that will... |
21 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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To celebrate the launch of “Hunger Games” movie, Microsoft and Lionsgate have partnered to bring a piece of the story to the smaller screens of desktop computers.
Millions of readers of Suzanne Collins’ novel series The Hunger Games are eagerly waiting for the movie to hit theaters on March 23rd.... |
21 March 2012
08:30 GMT |
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Zscaler has released the version for Internet Explorer of their Safe Shopping browser add-on. The product has already been available for Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, and now the company manages to be present in all popular web browsers on the market.
The extension has been created to warn users when the... |
20 March 2012
10:32 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser is gaining increased usage share on Windows 7, and the company is pleased about that.
In fact, the Redmond-based company is keen on making sure that all people know how great its browser can prove on this platform, and is touting its leading position when compare... |
19 March 2012
11:12 GMT |
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VUPEN, the team of French security researchers that identified a vulnerability in Google Chrome yesterday as part of the Pwn2Own browser-hacking competition, managed to compromise Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 9. Threat Post reports that the experts found a heap overflow issue that’s present in many... |
9 March 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Google Chrome may be seeing a bit of a rough patch in the browser market, at least according to some numbers, but things are also moving in strange directions elsewhere. Moving may not be the best choice of words, as the browser market has been rather static in February, even more so than usual.
The top dog, Interne... |
1 March 2012
17:01 GMT |
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SlimBrowser moved today to a new build, continuing with the bug fixing in the previous builds of the web browser. This release takes care of a single problem, which was a resource leak inside the rendering process.
However, up until build 078, the developer solved issues such as a crash occurring when opening certai... |
21 February 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Microsoft is touting the latest iterations of Internet Explorer, none others than the IE 9 and IE 10 releases, as being capable of delivering the best performance in the industry.
To ensure that things are indeed so, the company designed and built the Internet Explorer Performance Lab, which is one of the most sop... |
20 February 2012
05:41 GMT |
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It looks like Internet Explorer, but all underpinning is Mozilla’s work. A Firefox in IE9 clothing is what you get with FoxE9 add-on, as it is designed to apply Microsoft’s web browser design to Mozilla Firefox.The result is pretty simple to guess, but the amazing thing is the perfect resemblance. Looking... |
17 February 2012
11:25 GMT |
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On February 14th, Microsoft released a new set of security patches for some of its products, including a Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer.
The update is now available for download via Windows Update, meant to resolve no less than 5 privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer.
As part o... |
16 February 2012
10:42 GMT |
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Before the end of this month, a new flavor of Internet Explorer 10 should arrive included in the upcoming Windows 8 Consumer Preview that Microsoft is preparing for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Before that, however, those who chose to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on their computers can get the br... |
15 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Microsoft’s February 2012 bulletins, totaling a number of nine, address 21 security holes that were identified in a few products, some of which may have allowed an attacker to remotely execute malicious code if certain circumstances were met.
Kaspersky Securelist experts reveal that the vulnerabilities discov... |
15 February 2012
03:23 GMT |
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One of the great features the Microsoft decided to include inside Windows 8 was the ability of Metro Applications to take advantage of the performance of Internet Explorer 10 when displaying web content.
Microsoft explains that web content will always be JIT compiled and hardware-accelerated when it comes to Metro... |
8 February 2012
14:41 GMT |
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As Facebook users are preparing for Valentine’s Day, cybercriminals are relying on the fact that lovebirds may be tempted to install a so-called Valentine’s theme to make their profiles more special.
Trend Micro researchers came across one of these scams that attempts to dupe victims into downloading a m... |
31 January 2012
08:16 GMT |
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Wine 1.4 RC1, a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project. This version is the first release candidate for the Wine 1.4 branch and represents an important milestone in the development of Wine (Win... |
30 January 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Website managers who would like to learn whether the latest changes in the Internet Explorer platform also affect their site, can now use the Compat Inspector for IE10 to take a look into the matter.
Compat Inspector can be easily run on a page that has problems, regardless of whether developers are getting ready ... |
24 January 2012
09:42 GMT |
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A flaw currently present in Internet Explorer (IE) could be exploited by hackers and used to launch cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks, due to the way double quotes (“) are encoded by the web browser. IMPERVA researchers found the vulnerability and contacted Microsoft, but the Redmond company doesn’t se... |
20 January 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Microsoft is celebrating the fact that Internet Explorer 6 has now dropped below 1 percent market share in the US. That's a significant milestone for the browser which has been the bane of any web developer out there.There's very good reason to Microsoft's celebrating the demise of its own products, it... |
4 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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2011 year was an interesting year in the browser market, albeit a rather predictable one. Internet Explorer lost a bit of market share each month, Google Chrome gained a bit to almost double its share from the start of 2011 and Firefox stagnated.
That's according to Net Applications data, others show a better d... |
3 January 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Internet Explorer has had a great year in 2011, Microsoft says. To celebrate this, the company has decided to bring joy in the hearts of children this holiday season, and has partnered with Starlight Children’s Foundation. There are many children who cannot enjoy the holiday season the same way that most of ... |
22 December 2011
15:21 GMT |
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The latest versions of Internet Explorer can offer an enhanced HTML5 experience to users, since they can take advantage of hardware capabilities of the computer they are running on.
And when complemented by touchscreen capabilities in Windows 8, things get even more exciting, at least this is what the Redmond-base... |
21 December 2011
11:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome is continuing its march towards dominance. While it has just overtaken Firefox, slightly, in overall market share, it's not stopping here. The latest numbers from StatCounter indicate that Google Chrome 15 has become the most popular browser version in the world.Overall, IE still leads in market sh... |
16 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Yesterday, Microsoft announced a new feature being added to its Internet Explorer (IE) browser, namely auto updates, set to kick off in January in Australia and Brazil, and the company was keen on explaining that the move should not affect businesses. As part of this move, the company is re-issuing the IE9 or IE8 W... |
16 December 2011
07:48 GMT |
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Microsoft is, slowly as always, getting into line with the other browser makers and will start issuing automatic updates for Internet Explorer on Windows XP, Vista and 7.What this means is that users still running IE8, IE7 or even IE6, will be upgraded to the newest version available for their operating system, IE8 f... |
15 December 2011
19:11 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft announced a major change in its strategy related to offering new flavors of Internet Explorer to users: the introduction of automatic upgrades.
This change is meant to ensure that Window users take advantage of the latest Internet Explorer (IE) version out there.
The move will kick off in Januar... |
15 December 2011
09:45 GMT |
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In a new study issued by Accuvant, Google Chrome was deemed to be the most secure browser, based on the technologies and measures it implements to ensure that rogue code does at little damage as possible. Internet Explorer was found to be close and comparable to Google Chrome, while Firefox was found to be lacking i... |
12 December 2011
06:41 GMT |
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Thanksgiving is here, at least for one particular country in the world. Americans get together with their families to celebrate and simply spend some time all in the same place.But for anyone with even the slightest tech inclinations, any holiday with the family means fixing everyone's computers. Few look forwar... |
24 November 2011
17:21 GMT |
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Google has finally done it, its Chrome browser is now the second most popular in the world, topped only by Internet Explorer. According to the latest StatCounter numbers, Chrome has just edged past Firefox, last week, taking the number two spot.
The most interesting part is that Chrome actually lost a bit of market ... |
18 November 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Not much of a shake up in the browser market this month, but there are a few interesting things happening. Internet Explorer is continuing its slow descent and is approaching the 50 percent mark, in global market share, but it has not reached it.Elsewhere is business as usual, Firefox saw a small uptick, Chrome saw a... |
2 November 2011
17:11 GMT |
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On Windows 7, it's already mission accomplished for Google Chrome, but it's got more to grow before it becomes the number two browser in the world, overall. But it's getting there, in September it chipped away more market share, mostly from Internet Explorer.
Firefox, in fact, saw a small boost in n... |
4 October 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Google Chrome is already the number two browser, ahead of Firefox, on Windows 7. Windows 7 is hardly the dominant operating system on the web, but it does indicate a larger trend. If Chrome has managed to overtake Firefox on one platform, it's going to do it on others as well. Microsoft has provided some data, ... |
3 October 2011
10:31 GMT |
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The web browser market hasn't seen any huge changes in August, but some trends are accelerating. For example, Firefox lost almost half of a percent point in the last month alone, the biggest drop since the start of the year.Meanwhile, Google Chrome saw a bigger rise than usual, gaining almost one percent point, ... |
6 September 2011
16:51 GMT |
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First used in attacks against users of Google.com web properties, fraudulent DigiNotar digital certificates issued for *.microsoft.com, *.windowsupdate.com, www.update.microsoft.com were also identified by Microsoft.
The software giant, along with additional companies, including browsing vendors, reacted rapidly... |
6 September 2011
06:26 GMT |
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Spoofed certificates for .microsoft.com and .windowsupdate.com are among those issued by Dutch-based DigiNotar, which has been at the center of a scandal involved fraudulent certificates used to attack users of Google.com sites.
Microsoft has confirmed officially that certificates for its own online properties f... |
5 September 2011
07:19 GMT |
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Microsoft has removed a rogue SSL root certificate issued by DigiNotar from the list of trusted Windows root certificates in an effort designed to protect users of Internet Explorer from attacks impersonating Google online properties, including Gmail.
Dave Forstrom, director of Trustworthy Computing for Microsof... |
30 August 2011
09:11 GMT |
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The browser market is changing, but, globally, things move pretty slow. Internet Explorer is king, although it's been losing market share for years, Firefox comes in second and Chrome in third place.But if you look at some local markets, even at the continent level, things are more interesting as Pingdom has poi... |
27 August 2011
05:24 GMT |
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16 years after it made its debut to the world wide web as an underdog but with the Windows monopoly behind it, Internet Explorer is up against a number of rivals, and just as the Netscape browser it killed, it’s seeing its market share being eroded. Internet Explorer 1 was launched on August 16, 1995, and 16 y... |
16 August 2011
11:00 GMT |
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Microsoft expects reliable exploits to be created in the next thirty days for the critical Internet Explorer vulnerabilities patched this Tuesday.The MS11-057 IE security bulletin addresses seven security vulnerabilities that affect all versions of the browser on all supported Windows flavors.Five of the flaws were r... |
10 August 2011
13:00 GMT |
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