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Why Is Apple's Safari Losing Market Share?

On June 11, Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, announced the availability of Safari 3.0 public beta for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP and Windows Vista. The move is designed not only to offer developers the minimal level of support for the iPhone but also to open Safari's horizon outside of the...

5 July 2007
10:29 GMT

IE Down on All Fronts! Users Switching to Firefox

Firefox global usage share is continuously growing in the detriment of Internet Explorer. Statistics illustrating the usage share of Internet Explorer and Firefox released by analytics firm OneStat, reveal that Microsoft's browser is down on all fronts and that end users are starting to increasingly prefer Firef...

4 July 2007
08:56 GMT

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 Drops This Month

Both Mozilla and Apple are right on track to release version 3.0 of their respective browsers on the Windows platform by the end of 2007. The Cupertino-based company announced through the voice of Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs on June 11, concomitantly with the release of Safari 3.0 Public Beta for 32-bit and 64...

4 July 2007
04:12 GMT

New Release of Firefox 3.0 Gran Paradiso in Response to Apple's Safari 3.0 on Windows

The Windows browser beta season is upon us. After Apple's Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs introduced the native Mac OS X Safari 3.0 browser as a Public Beta for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows XP on June 11, now it is Mozilla's turn to release another testing milestone for Firefox 3.0. Gran P...

3 July 2007
06:31 GMT

Internet Explorer Killed Firefox and Safari

Firefox and Safari are no match for Internet Explorer. When it comes down to audience and installed base, Microsoft's Internet Explorer far outweighs its direct rivals Mozilla Firefox and Apple's Safari. Mozilla was at a turning point the past two months. It killed support for Firefox 1.5 and it introduced ...

2 July 2007
08:54 GMT

Major Firefox Upgrades on the Way

Mozilla has begun pushing the last nail in Firefox 1.5's coffin. On 28 June 2007, Mozilla has begun distributing the automatic updates to Firefox 2.0 to all users of Firefox 1.5. In this manner, the Foundation steps in the footprints of Microsoft. The Redmond company debuted automatic updates of Internet Explore...

29 June 2007
06:57 GMT

Top 7 Web Development Tools for Internet Explorer 7

Planning, debugging, writing declarative content (HTML/CSS), scripting and monitoring network traffic are all aspects and tasks inherent with the web developing process. John Hrvatin, Internet Explorer Program Manager has posted a list of seven web development tools designed to streamline creation and enable increase...

25 June 2007
09:52 GMT

Heap Manipulation - Key to Internet Explorer Attacks

Heap manipulation techniques along with good old-fashioned copy & paste can combine to result in successful attacks aimed at Internet Explorer. The "Heap Spraying" technique involves taking advantage of the way JavaScript handles heap-blocks. Following the availability of proof-of-concept code for "Heap Spraying," th...

21 June 2007
11:25 GMT

Mozilla Top Executive Blasts Apple's Steve Jobs: Out-of-Date, Corporate-Controlled

John Lilly, Mozilla's Chief Operating Officer, blasted Apple's Chief Executive Office Steve Jobs over Safari on Windows. Lilly claims that Jobs focuses on driving Firefox out of the browser market that Apple will then dominate in tandem with Microsoft. The official position of the open source Foundation in ...

15 June 2007
14:47 GMT

Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple Comment on Safari for Windows

At the beginning of this week, Apple Chief Executive Officer unveiled Safari for Windows Vista and Windows XP. The move from Apple comes as a natural extension of the availability of the iPhone, a closed environment to third party developers, with the exception of JavaScript applications running via Safari. Apple...

14 June 2007
03:50 GMT

Internet Explorer Is in a Lamentable Condition

If Microsoft's Internet Explorer were a ship, rats would be storming out of the sinking vessel. The Redmond Company made available for download a total of six patches for various editions of the browser. No less than five of the security flaws have been labeled with the maximum severity rating of Critical, as th...

13 June 2007
04:06 GMT

Apple's Safari is Zero in the Shadows of Internet Explorer and Firefox

Safari is not a newcomer when it comes to the browser market. As a matter of fact Safari is an established presence thanks to the bundle with the Mac operating systems. Back in 2003, the intimate connection between Safari and Mac OS have convinced Microsoft to stop all development efforts that the Redmond Company mad...

12 June 2007
11:30 GMT

Mozilla Saw Apple Safari for Windows Coming a Mile Away

Want an accurate perspective of the future of browser development? Then turn to Mozilla. The open source foundation saw Apple's Safari 3 for Windows coming a mile away. On June 11 2007, the Cupertino-based company announced through the voice of its Chief Executive Office Steve Jobs that its Safari browser, nativ...

12 June 2007
09:21 GMT

IE Up, Firefox Down - Firefox Users Upgrade to Internet Explorer

For the first time in the past year, Mozilla Firefox lost its grip on the browser market dropping by almost 1%. In contrast, Microsoft's Internet Explorer managed to take itself off the downright spiral debuted in May 2006 and even pick up a little share of the market. With the platoon of followers including Saf...

1 June 2007
08:43 GMT

Microsoft Owns ActiveX in IE - a Claim Worth Half a Billion

Microsoft is right on track to overturning a ruling that weighs heavily on its pockets. The Redmond Company was given the go ahead to argue the validity of a patent owned by research firm Eolas Technologies, and that came with a price tag of no less than $521 million. Microsoft lost the half a billion lawsuit debuted...

1 June 2007
06:00 GMT

Firefox Patched to the Core - Internet Explorer Full of Leaks

Security is one of the core aspects of the dichotomy between Firefox and Internet Explorer. As a sum of best practices, healthy user behavior and code quality, Firefox comes on top of Internet Explorer in terms of security. Security company Secunia has made available a set of statistics indicating that Firefox users ...

17 May 2007
07:39 GMT

What's New in Microsoft Land: May 7 - 11, 2007

On Monday, Microsoft made an important step into the Linux market by signing a deal with Dell, the company that will join the software giant's alliance with Novell. The three partners will have a single goal: that of improving the interoperability between Windows and Linux and allow their users to work on their ...

13 May 2007
08:25 GMT

Firefox Explores Over Even More Internet Explorer Territory

Internet Explorer continues to lose ground to Firefox. April 2007 is yet another month when Microsoft's Internet Explorer has lost its territory on the browser market to Mozilla's open source solution. With Firefox 2.0 becoming increasingly adopted, with support for Firefox 1.5 ending in mid May and with Fi...

1 May 2007
08:37 GMT

Firefox Adds Social Tools. Bye-Bye IE!

The battle between Microsoft and Mozilla is known in the entire world because their browsers, Internet Explorer and Firefox, are currently attracting the majority of the Internet users. Although there were a lot of discussions concerning the features of the two applications, Firefox seems to be the favorite of the ba...

4 April 2007
06:45 GMT

Useful Tips for a Safe Browsing Experience

The Internet is no longer a safe place and this is proved day by day by numerous hacker attacks, malware reports or virus infections discovered on the computers from every corner of the world. No matter if the threat is represented by spam, viruses, Trojans or even the exploitations of the vulnerabilities identified ...

8 March 2007
13:26 GMT

Internet Explorer 8.0 Is Cooking Since Early January 2006

Microsoft has debuted planning for Internet Explorer 8.0 since early January 2007. A Software Design Engineer working intimately in the development of Internet Explorer revealed that, as of January 6, he was hard at work on IE 8. But of course that there are only scarce details about this embryonic stage of the Micr...

7 March 2007
07:23 GMT




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