Apple’s Safari browser share hits new all-time high of 7.13% as Internet Explorer drops below 70%
MacDailyNews — ... 10.55%) Apple Safari: 7.13% (vs. MAY 2006: 3.26%) - iPhone: 0.37% - iPod: 0.05% Google Chrome: 0.83% Opera: 0.71% Netscape: 0.53% Mozilla: 0.08% Opera Mini: 0.06% Playstation: 0.04% Blazer: 0.02% Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer: 0.01% BlackBerry: 0.00% Net Applications' Browser Market Share for November 2008: [image] Net Applications' Browser Market Share Trend for Apple Safari for December 2006 to November 2008: [image] More details can be seen via Net Applications' here . MacDailyNews Note: As always, the actual percentage numbers are not as important as the ...

Apple Safari browser market share doing well
Phones Review — It looks like Apple’s Safari is doing very well, according to Net Applications’ Web Browser statistics for November 08, as they show Safari has hit a new time high with 7.13 percent of the browsers hitting Net Applications’ network of sites globally. The data used is aggregated from 40,000 websites which are principally either corporate or ecommerce websites, however the top slot has to go to Microsoft Internet Explorer with 69.77 percent. Other browsers don’t fair to bad either, second slot goes to Mozilla Firefox who gained 20.78 percent, with Apple Safari coming in at third place with their 7.13 percent; the Apple iPhone grabbed 0.37 percent while the Apple iPod garnered 0.05 ...

Opera 10 Alpha Arrives
SitePoint — ... According to Net Applications just about 0.71% of the net population uses the Opera browser. But according to Google Analytics, about three times that number of SitePoint users use Opera (clearly a more enlightened bunch than the general web populace). Today Opera ...

Sneak Peek: Opera 10 Browser
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... park, according to the company. As of the end of November, the Opera browser was the fifth most used browser for accessing the Web with a 0.71% market share, according to the Web metrics firm Net Applications. Microsoft Internet Explorer led the market, followed by Firefox, ...

Mayer Closes The Door On Chrome's Beta Tag
WebProNews Feed — [image] Removal even more sure now Prepare to say goodbye to something that serves as both a safety net and warning sign for Google Chrome. Although she didn't give a timeframe, Marissa Mayer herself has confirmed that the browser's beta tag will be removed. We first heard about this push late last month, from Vice President of Product Management Sundar Pichai. He discussed a January-ish target date, and advertising campaigns and distribution deals were discussed at the same time. Mayer sits more than a single step up on the corporate ladder, though, so what she told Michael Arrington in an interview at LeWeb '08 seemed worth repeating. Considering that Google's products have ...

Are Android, Chrome-flavored Netbooks On Tap For Google
Google Watch — Earlier this week, I lamented what Google didn't do in 2008, but with the year winding down let's consider what's on tap at Google for 2009. Garret Rogers over at ZDNet is thinking that there will be several mobile devices running Google's Android mobile operating system. I know, I know. Stating the obvious a little. But in this obscene economy, it's okay to play it safe. Of course there will be more Android devices, probably from Sprint, Motorola, Samsung, Kogan, Garmin and God knows who else. But while we're on the subject, I'd like to add to this list that we should see an Android netbook in 2008. Why not? Netbooks have gone gangbusters in 2008. Just ask ...

IE: Inevitable Extinction?
Microsoft Watch — January 2, 2009 3:05 PM IE: Inevitable Extinction? Every few days, somebody writes something about Internet Explorer's declining marketshare. "OMG. Net Applications December data shows IE market share below 70 percent." Big hairy deal. arrow.gif GOT A TIP OR RUMOR? These numbers are somewhat meaningless, anyway, because they do the impossible: Add up to 100 percent. Browsers aren't a finite market. Analysts can calculate share based on, say, shipments of something. Ten manufacturers ship X number of widgets during Y time period; marketshare can be calculated based on how many widgets each manufacturer shipped. The math doesn't apply to Web browsers, because the real measurement ...

Report: PS3 leads Wii ... in web browsing
Joystiq — Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii If you've ever wondered "Does anyone actually browse the web on consoles?," Market Share has an answer for you: yes, but not very many people. The firm reports that .04% of all web browsing is performed on PS3, compared to the .01% of Wii, the only other current-gen console with a browser. Of course, ...

Europe revives claims of Microsoft web browser monopoly
AppleInsider — By Aidan Malley Published: 06:25 PM EST Having escaped more severe consequences in the US, Microsoft has been put on notice by the European Union that it may have to detach Internet Explorer from Windows under claims that the web browser has an unfair monopoly. The European Commission's Statement of Objection, delivered on Friday, gives Microsoft an early warning that the EC believes the company has abused its monopoly by linking Internet Explorer deeply with its operating system, preventing competitors from easily offering their own alternatives and giving the browser a de facto lead by including it with Windows PCs, which currently have about 90 percent of the world market. The current ...

The EC's latest objection: Is it time to unbundle IE from Windows?
Betanews — The EC's latest objection: Is it time to unbundle IE from Windows? by Scott M. Fulton, III For many, it's a very tired, old argument; but for politicians in Europe, it remains a rallying cry: Microsoft, says the European Commission, is using its Web browser unfairly. At the height of the Microsoft / Netscape browser war a decade (or was it a century?) ago, Microsoft argued that so much of Windows' functionality relied upon the HTML rendering capability of Internet Explorer that it would be technically impossible to divorce the two from one another. That argument was raised in response to objections from lawmakers and judges worldwide, including in the US, that bundling IE with Windows gave ...

What Might The EU Make Microsoft Do To Windows? (MSFT)
Silicon Alley Insider — As the EU pursues its ridiculous antitrust action against Microsoft (MSFT) to force the company to divorce the IE web browser from Windows, we've wondered: Just what does Europe want from Microsoft? If a browser-less version of Windows was offered, how would anyone be able to choose an alternate method of surfing the Internet? The Euro idea is pre-installs of other browsers or forcing Microsoft to offer them via Windows Update. Norway-based Opera (0.71% market share, below Google (GOOG) Chrome) got the EU on the IE/Windows issue with a 2007 antitrust complaint to European authorities. In an interview with ZDnet, Opera reps explain new rules they hope Brussels will ...

Internet Explorer’s browser market share shrinks — because IE6 is finally dying
VentureBeat — Too many people in this world still use Internet Explorer 6 — the badly aging, 2001 version of Microsoft’s still-dominant browser line, that lacks basic modern features such as tabs. But this is changing, according to the latest stats from analytics service NetApplications. The global number of IE6 users has fallen to 19.21 percent this January, from 30.63 percent last February. Other browsers have been growing, apparently at IE6’s expense. Mozilla’s Firefox grew three percentage points to 21.53 percent over the last year, Apple’s Safari grew a little over one percent to 8.29 percent and Google’s new Chrome browser grew to 1.12 ...

Microsoft Nearly Killed Browser Competition, Mozilla's Baker Charges
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Three weeks after the European Commission told Microsoft that it objected to the ongoing linkage between Windows and Internet Explorer, Mozilla Foundation chairman Mitchell Baker issued a ringing endorsement of the European Union antitrust group's findings and offered Mozilla's expertise to help craft a remedy. "The damage Microsoft has done to competition, innovation, and the pace of the Web development itself is both glaring and ongoing," said Baker in a blog post on Friday. "There are separate questions of whether there is a good remedy, and what that remedy might be. But questions regarding an appropriate remedy do not change the essential fact. Microsoft's business ...

Microsoft Nearly Killed Browser Competition, Mozilla's Baker Charges
TechWeb — Three weeks after the European Commission told Microsoft that it objected to the ongoing linkage between Windows and Internet Explorer, Mozilla Foundation chairman Mitchell Baker issued a ringing endorsement of the European Union antitrust group's findings and offered Mozilla's expertise to help craft a remedy. "The damage Microsoft has done to competition, innovation, and the pace of the Web development itself is both glaring and ongoing," said Baker in a blog post on Friday. "There are separate questions of whether there is a good remedy, and what that remedy might be. But questions regarding an appropriate remedy do not change the essential fact. Microsoft's business ...

Fast Safari Beta Boasts Chrome-Like Features
Webmonkey — The public beta of Safari 4 is now publicly available for download. The public beta most noticeably features a new interface that shares a lot of the design elements with its closest competition, Google’s Chrome browser, and several user experience features found in other Apple products. Safari users will also find the browser a little more speedy using web applications like Gmail as Safari 4 boasts faster speeds using its new JavaScript engine, dubbed Nitro. Meanwhile, web developers will be excited with the latest graphic and offline advancements to its Webkit rendering engine, as well as several new developer tools built into the browser. New User ...

Browser Wars: Opera Says It’s Not Down or Out [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Browser market share data published earlier this month by Net Applications regarding Opera Software’s desktop browser is “plain wrong,” Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO of the software company, told me today. He was responding to questions about the report’s conclusion, that Opera’s ...

Firefox 3.0.7 targets security issues
Webware.com — Mozilla on Wednesday released an update to the Firefox Web browser that its developers said fixes eight security issues found in Firefox 3.0.6, six of which were rated critical. The most serious of the vulnerabilities fixed in version 3.0.7 for Windows, Mac, and Linux could allow attackers to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer, Mozilla warned in security advisories Wednesday. ...

Google Chrome Comes Bundled With RealPlayer
Mashable! — Google wants Google Chrome’s market share to go up from those 1.15%, badly. They’re promoting Chrome quite aggresively lately; first through ads, and now also by bundling it with third party software. First such case, as noticed by Google Operating System, is RealPlayer, which offers you to install Chrome during its own installation process. As far as Google’s software goes, you also get the option of installing Chrome when you install Google Earth. It’s a fairly standard affair; you’ll see Yahoo toolbar and many other applications bundled with other apps in a similar manner. It is, however, slightly unusual for Google, which is ...

Is IE8 the Vista of Web browsers?
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — I have not tested Internet Explorer 8 — the new version of Microsoft’s (MSFT) industry-leading Web browser, set to release at noon Thursday here. And since Microsoft has made it clear that it has no intention of writing a version for the Apple (AAPL) Macintosh, I may never use it. However, I’ve read some of the early reviews, starting with ...

With IE8, Microsoft Ignores One Third Of The Market
TechCrunch — With today’s release of Internet Explorer 8, everyone who use Microsoft’s browser will be getting some much-needed improvements: color-coded related tabs, “Accelerator” add-ons, search and site suggestions, toolbar favorites, WebSlice bookmarking, and “inPrivate” stealth surfing (read our earlier coverage). It may not be as fast as its competitors, according to early reports, but anything is better than IE7. But speed is really everything. Without speed, all the other features fall by the wayside. You can’t enjoy a WebSlice (which is a slice of a Webpage that is constantly updated) if it takes forever to load. And if you ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Seeks Dominance
TechWeb — Microsoft on Thursday officially released Internet Explorer 8 , calling it "the best solution for how people use the Web today." It is, unfortunately for Microsoft, not the only solution for using the Web today. Microsoft has been steadily losing market share to Firefox and Safari for the past few years. Internet Explorer 8 represents the company's bid to reverse that trend, but it faces stiff competition as Apple, Google, and Mozilla continue to develop their own browsers with an eye toward a future full of Web-based software and services. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, touted IE8's speed, ease of use, and security, stating that it ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Seeks Dominance
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Microsoft on Thursday officially released Internet Explorer 8 , calling it "the best solution for how people use the Web today." It is, unfortunately for Microsoft, not the only solution for using the Web today. Microsoft has been steadily losing market share to Firefox and Safari for the past few years. Internet Explorer 8 represents the company's bid to reverse that trend, but it faces stiff competition as Apple, Google, and Mozilla continue to develop their own browsers with an eye toward a future full of Web-based software and services. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, touted IE8's speed, ease of use, and security, stating that it ...

Firefox Market Share Numbers Vary, But it Appears to Be Tops in Europe
OStatic blogs — Most people are aware that Mozilla's Firefox browser has over 20 percent market share at this point, with the latest data from NetApps showing it at 21.77 percent share. However, not everyone is aware of how dominant the browser has become in certain parts of the world, especially Europe, and it's surprising how skewed browser market share citations get across the many sites that report data. Here are a few different slices on Firefox's market share from various sources, including one showing it as the top browser in Europe. You can pick which one to believe. This post includes recent browser market share numbers from several sources, where it's interesting how widely the ...

Firefox Market Share Numbers Vary, But it Appears to Be Tops in Europe [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — Most people are aware that Mozilla's Firefox browser has over 20 percent market share at this point, with the latest data from NetApps showing it at 21.77 percent share. However, not everyone is aware of how dominant the browser has become in certain parts of the world, especially Europe, and it's surprising how skewed browser market share citations get across the many sites that report data. Here are a few different slices on Firefox's market share from various sources, including one showing it as the top browser in Europe. You can pick which one to believe. This post includes recent browser market share numbers from several sources, where it's interesting how widely the ...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Fails To Halt Firefox Gains
TechWeb — Despite the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 two weeks ago, Microsoft continues to lose browser market share to Mozilla's Firefox. According to the latest data from Net Applications, the global market share for all versions of Internet Explorer slipped from 67.44% in February to 66.82% in March ...

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 Fails To Halt Firefox Gains
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Despite the release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 two weeks ago, Microsoft continues to lose browser market share to Mozilla's Firefox. According to the latest data from Net Applications, the global market share for all versions of Internet Explorer slipped from 67.44% in February to 66.82% in March ...

Firefox 3.0.9 targets 12 security vulnerabilities
Webware.com — Mozilla released an update to Firefox 3 on Tuesday that patches 12 security vulnerabilities, four of which it rated as critical. Firefox 3.0.9, the Web browser's third update this year, fixes two critical vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser engine and two in its JavaScript engine, according to a security advisory posted Tuesday: ...

IE8 now being delivered as 'Important Update' for Vista, 'High Priority' for XP
Betanews — By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews A few weeks ago, Microsoft made indications that it would be delivering Office 2007 Service Pack 2 and Internet Explorer 8 as important automatic updates to Windows users on the same day. That day ended up being today, and now many Windows users are being prompted for the first time to install IE8 as an update to their operating system. Since the product's release last month, upgrades have only been voluntary. Though two-thirds of the world's Web traffic is attributable to browsers identifying themselves as Internet Explorer, according to the latest up-to-the-minute data from analytics firm NetApplications, under 5% of that traffic comes ...

Web browser market shares: May 2009
The Microsoft Blog — The Microsoft Blog Microsoft Tech Technology Software Seattle Microsoft Bing launch 'light show' a bust | Main | Sneak peek: Microsoft's new Bing ad Print this E-mail this Web browser market shares: May 2009 As always, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the victor, according to Net Applications . [image] Data from Net Applications. Posted by Nick Eaton at June 3, 2009 10:53 a.m. Categories: Firefox , Google , Internet Explorer Comments #310283 Posted by unregistered user at 6/3/09 12:08 p.m. Firefox is far and away a better browser than IE. Too bad more pc users don't realize this. ...

Opinion: Opera 10 is just too good to ignore
Techradar - All the latest technology news — In an ideal world, good things would get the attention they deserve and crap would disappear. For proof that this isn't an ideal world, check out NetApplications' browser market share stats. Internet Explorer 6, the gurning half-wit of the browser world, has nearly 17% of the market. Opera, a truly great browser, has 0.72%. That's lower than Netscape (0.74%), which was shot and turned into glue months ago. To say that Opera is better than Netscape or IE6 is like saying having sex with the love of your life is better than being boiled in oil while being stabbed with knives, or living in Doncaster. Opera is fast, flexible and free, and more often than not its ...

Glue sticks to IE too
Webware.com — Glue, the popular Firefox extension that lets users discuss content all over the web, is releasing a version of its add-on, built for Internet Explorer, today. This is a big step for Glue for a couple of reasons. The first and most obvious reason is that being compatible with IE expands Glue's potential audience significantly. Net Applications reports that IE currently holds 65.5% of the browser market to Firefox's 22.51%. Being able to reach 88% of the internet browsing population should increase their registered user base of 130,000 significantly. ...

SitePoint Podcast #18: Internet Explorer 8 … Percent?
SitePoint — Episode 18 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week your hosts are Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Brad Williams (@williamsba) and Kevin Yank (@sentience). Listen in your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser! Just click the orange “play” button below: Read the episode transcript ...

Mozilla Pushes the Web Forward With Firefox 3.5
Webmonkey — Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is the culmination of nearly a year-long quest to build a browser for the next version of the web. And while it’s not perfect, it comes very, very close. The open-source browser is expected to be available for download Tuesday morning for Windows, Mac and Linux. Originally envisioned as a quick follow-up to 2008’s release of Firefox 3.0, Mozilla ended up packing in quite a few extra features into its flagship browser and spent months making sure that Firefox 3.5 was the fastest, most powerful Firefox yet. Firefox 3.5 brings with it entirely new and much faster rendering engines for both static web pages and the JavaScript code that ...

Coming today: Firefox 3.5
TechBlog — Linkpost | 6.30.2009 | Main June 30, 2009 Coming today: Firefox 3.5 image_1[1]_3[1] At long last, the latest version of Firefox will be polished off and released onto the Web sometime today. Firefox 3.5 is worth the upgrade, regardless of whether you're on a Windows, Mac or Linux PC. At this writing, Firefox 3.0.11 is the version you'll find at the Firefox download page . That will be switched to 3.5 when the new browser is released. You can still get the 3.5 release candidate here . I've been using Firefox 3.5 since early betas - when its version number was 3.1 - and have been very pleased with it. It's noticeably faster, more stable and further improves the browser's ...

Google vs. Microsoft: What You Need to Know
Wired: Epicenter — In less than a week, Google announced an operating system to compete with Windows, while Microsoft announced that Office 10 will include free, online versions of its four most popular software programs — a shot at Google’s suite of web-based office applications. And not more than a month and a half ago, Microsoft unveiled its new search engine Bing which it hopes will steal market share from Google and finally make it real money online. From the news of it, it’s a full-blown tech battle, complete with behind-the-scenes machinations to sic government regulators on each other. It is, however, not a death match — it’s more of an fight to see ...

Microsoft: Internet Explorer Is Once Again Gaining Momentum
paidContent — All of Microsoft’s top executives are talking up the company’s prospects to financial analysts at the company’s corporate conference center in Redmond today. (See our sister site mocoNews for Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach’s comments on Microsoft’s mobile plans and this earlier post for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer’s comments on the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) deal). Other highlights: —Internet Explorer: Chief operating officer Kevin Turner called attention to the performance of Microsoft’s new version of Internet Explorer, saying that while Microsoft’s share of the ...

Microsoft: Internet Explorer Is Gaining Momentum Again
paidContent — Top executives are talking up the company’s prospects to financial analysts at the company’s corporate conference center in Redmond today. It’s not all rah rah rah, though. See, for instance, our sister site mocoNews for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer’s no-nonsense comments on the company’s mobile business. Other highlights: —Internet Explorer: Chief operating officer Kevin Turner called attention to the performance of Microsoft’s new version of Internet Explorer, saying that while Microsoft’s share of the browser market had been “declining quarter after quarter after quarter,” the ...

Too Big to Fail or Nowhere to Go But Down? 5 Companies That Dominate [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — Today’s news that Apple sells almost 70 percent of songs online had us wondering about other industry giants. Some companies, whether because they make a great product, or were first to a particular industry, or some other reason entirely, make goods that manage to secure a massive amount of market share. Hit products that grab more than half of their market are very rare, and only ...

In Depth: Google Chrome: one year on
Techradar - All the latest technology news — When Google unveiled the beta of its Chrome browser one year ago today, there were two explanations for its appearance. The official reason, as stated by Google in the official blog, was that "the web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better." The unofficial reason, as stated by pretty much everybody, was that Google wanted to own the browser market the way it owns search. So how is it doing? To date, Chrome has been a modest success. It's achieved just under 3% market share (NetApplications gives it 2.84%), which puts it ahead of Opera and just behind Apple's Safari, which isn't ...

iPhone gains 10% web browsing use in August
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Use of an iPhone to access the Web climbed c.10 per cent in August when compared to the previous month, and its share of total internet traffic has more than doubled since October last year, the latest NetApplications statistics inform. iPhone’s accounted for 0.33 per cent of Web traffic last month, up from 0.30 per cent the month before and 0.14 per cent in October 2008, the figures reveal. That’s one-third of the number of machines running Linux currently being used to access the Web; and is a higher figure than use of Java ME and Symbian devices to get online. Mac operating systems accounted for 4.87 per cent of traffic, up from 3.79 per cent ...

Could Chrome OS Land Google in Microsoft-Like Antitrust Trouble? [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — Following TechCrunch's recent post showing alleged photos of Google's upcoming Chrome OS, which don't seem to show much beyond the fact that the operating system may have very large icons, there are some new clues emerging about it. As Download Squad cites, based on notes in a post detailing changes to the Chrome browser's Chromium core, Chrome OS sounds a lot like a bootable browser running on Linux. There are reasons to believe that as soon as you start the operating system, you'll be in the Chrome browser, and reasons to believe that you won't have the choice to use other browsers. That could potentially cause Google trouble. As Search Engine Journal ...

Could Chrome OS Land Google in Microsoft-Like Antitrust Trouble?
OStatic blogs — Following TechCrunch's recent post showing alleged photos of Google's upcoming Chrome OS, which don't seem to show much beyond the fact that the operating system may have very large icons, there are some new clues emerging about it. As Download Squad cites, based on notes in a post detailing changes to the Chrome browser's Chromium core, Chrome OS sounds a lot like a bootable browser running on Linux. There are reasons to believe that as soon as you start the operating system, you'll be in the Chrome browser, and reasons to believe that you won't have the choice to use other browsers. That could potentially cause Google trouble. As Search Engine Journal ...

Chrome Extensions Are Here — In Dev Channel Versions, At Least [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — The Google Chrome browser has been in existence for a little over a year now, and has close to three percent market share, according to NetApplications. Many people attribute its relatively low market share thus far to lack of availability of finished Mac and Linux versions, as well as a lack of of the kinds of very useful extensions that are available for Firefox. On that last ...

Opera 10: Solid, Stable, Innovative [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — Right on schedule, Opera released Opera 10 for download last week, and, as expected, it’s a solid and lively performer — no major visible changes from the late betas and release candidate builds I’ve been reporting regularly. Opera 10 has been my default browser on all three of my production Macs for the past six months or more, ever since the first public ...

IE overall usage slips, but IE 8 gains
Webware.com — From August 2009 (at top) to September 2009 (below), Internet Explorer lost a bit of usage share compared to rival browsers.(Credit: Net Applications) All four of Internet Explorer's main rivals gained a larger share of users worldwide from August to September, new statistics show. According to Net Applications, which tracks browser usage globally ...

Google Chrome Tour Geared to Prepare Us For Chrome OS
Google Watch — Last week, a Google employee launched the WhatBrowser.org Web site to inform users about what a browser is, the different types of Web browsers available to them is, along with tips on how to manage them. Today, Google dispensed with the agnostic approach and championed its own Web browser with this guide on how to use Chrome. I actually created this Chrome tips slideshow not long ago, but this guide is official and has four sections. First up is a tour of the browser, followed by a lesson in browser settings, and an offer to take Chrome for a spin. The final leg of the tour is an "advanced" section, with tips such as hitting tab to search ...

Google Chrome Tour Geared to Prepare For Chrome OS
Google Watch — Last week, a Google employee launched the WhatBrowser.org Web site to inform users about what a browser is, the different types of Web browsers available to them is, along with tips on how to manage them. Today, Google dispensed with the agnostic approach and championed its own Web browser with this guide on how to use Chrome. I actually created this Chrome tips slideshow not long ago, but this guide is official and has four sections. First up is a tour of the browser, followed by a lesson in browser settings, and an offer to take Chrome for a spin. The final leg of the tour is an "advanced" section, with tips such as hitting tab to search ...

Mozilla designer suggests Windows 'browser ballot' is preferential to Apple
Betanews — By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews In a blog post yesterday first noticed by Computerworld's Gregg Keizer, a member of Mozilla's user experience team -- stating she was not writing on behalf of Mozilla, as the organization allows -- suggested that Microsoft's revised proposal for a Web browser selection screen for European Windows users still isn't fair enough to the browser market. Because more computer users are accustomed to the typical ways to install software, states Mozilla UX team member Jenny Boriss, they may assume that the first choice that appears in a list is the preferred choice. In Microsoft's original proposal, Internet ...

Why Doesn’t Opera Have More Market Share in North America?
TheAppleBlog — I usually have at least three browsers open at any time. One will be a Mozilla Gecko app (Firefox, Camino, or SeaMonkey) and one an Apple WebKit based program (Stainless, Cruz, iCab, Shiira, OmniWeb, or especially since Safari 4 was released, Safari itself). Interestingly, I find I like Safari 4 better on my old Pismo PowerBooks running OS 10.4.11 than I do under Leopard on my Core 2 ...

Why Doesn’t Opera Have More Market Share in North America? [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network — I usually have at least three browsers open at any time. One will be a Mozilla Gecko app (Firefox, Camino, or SeaMonkey) and one an Apple WebKit based program (Stainless, Cruz, iCab, Shiira, OmniWeb, or especially since Safari 4 was released, Safari itself). Interestingly, I find I like Safari 4 better on my old Pismo PowerBooks running OS 10.4.11 than I do under Leopard on my Core 2 ...

Chrome and others nibble away IE usage
Webware.com — Google's Chrome is still the fourth-place browser in terms of usage, but it gained more than others in October when it comes to stealing usage away from the dominant Internet Explorer. According to Net Applications' browser usage share statistics, Chrome gained from 3.2 percent to 3.6 percent from September 2009 to October. The company bases its statistics on visits to a global network of 40,000 Web sites, dusted with some statistical processing. Next was Mozilla's Firefox, which rose from 23.8 percent to 24.1 percent. Apple's Safari rose from 4.2 percent to 4.4 percent. Opera was essentially flat at 2.2 percent. The big loser was IE, which dropped from ...

Microsoft Losing More Ground To Google, Apple
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Internet Explorer is slowly losing market share to its biggest rivals, Apple and Google, for reasons as disparate as they are significant.

Google Chrome: 30 Million And Growing
Silicon Alley Insider — googlechrome5.jpg Google's Chrome isn't a joke anymore. Yes, it's still a rounding error in terms of overall market share. But it's a bigger rounding error. And in October, at least, it gained share faster than Firefox. TechCrunch: There is a perception that Google s Chrome is a rounding error ...

Firefox at 5 – and one-quarter
The Microsoft Blog — Mozilla Firefox celebrated its fifth birthday Monday, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to ask you readers what you like about the Web browser. [image] In just five years, Firefox has taken 24 percent of the browser market share as of Monday, according to Net Applications ...

Gary Marshall: Will Google really outfox Firefox?
Techradar - All the latest technology news — Google Chrome is a nifty little browser, but to date it's hardly had the impact of Mozilla's Firefox. That's partly because it's still Windows-only, but we suspect it's largely because you can't use extensions. Both of those things are about to change. We know the Mac and Linux versions - the official, stable ones - are imminent, and now it seems that the Extension Gallery is ready to say hello. Mac and Linux support may not make a big difference to the numbers, but extensions almost certainly will. Whenever we've compared Chrome against other browsers, it does exceptionally well - until it comes to expandability. We're so used to Firefox's AdBlock Plus that we're a bit ...