Posts Tagged ‘browserwars’

The October browser market share numbers are in. It was a bloody month for Microsoft, while Mozilla was able to slow Firefox’ decline. Chrome gained substantially and posted a new 6-month gain record. It appears that virtually all users IE and Firefox are losing migrate to Chrome. Does that create a scenario for two unlikely allies?

One of our eagle-eyed readers (thanks, Raphael) sent me a note that Microsoft today announced a bingified version of Firefox.

There is an interesting report circulating this morning, courtesy of Geek.com. Volkswagen requires its suppliers to use IE6 when using Volkswagen applications. More than 10 years after its release, IE6 is still deeply entrenched in some environments, but has become virtually meaningless everywhere else.

Chrome 17 will become the ninth version revision introduced in 2011 and has just been released as Chromium nightly version of the browser via Google’s Webkit snapshot release channel. This new version is the first to integrate http pipelining via a flag.

Things on the Internet happen fast. The web is constantly expanding, evolving, and becoming capable of new and amazing things. Our web browser is literally our window into that ever expanding world and the browser’s capabilities – and maybe even more importantly, it’s limitations – define our experience. So it should come as no surprise that all the major browsers: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and even Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are adopting or have already adopted a faster cycle of updates and new releases for their browser software.

Google’s Chrome web browser briefly exceeded Firefox market share last weekend by a miniscule margin. IE market share continue its decline and now averages less than 40% market share.

Whoa! That went much faster than we expected. Google will be ready to release the first Chrome version for Android with the release of Ice Cream Sandwich next week, we are told. The desktop version of the browser is making big steps as well, adding pipelining support for yet another round of performance improvements as well as UI changes that now include a content settings tab and finishing touches for its profiles support.

It is a big year for Google’s Chrome, as the browser has become the world’s most popular HTML5 browser, as it is on track to replace IE8 as the most popular single browser version, as it is shooting to exceed Firefox market share in November and as it will pass IE in market share in at least one continent: For the first time, Chrome has exceeded IE market share in South America last weekend.

Microsoft has just launched its fall IE advertising campaign and maintains the strategy of touting IE’s superior security features. A website that has been created in partnership with the Online Trust Alliance, the Identity Theft Council, and the Anti-Phishing Working Group, Microsoft concludes that IE achieves a perfect score in browser security and both Chrome and Firefox will leave you unprotected against certain attacks.

The speculation about the feature set of Chrome Remoting ends as Google has released the software as a beta extension for Chrome. Think GoToMyPC: Remoting is available as the Chrome Remote Desktop that enables a user to remote control another PC that runs Chrome. Microsoft and Mozilla, this is a killer feature that should not be underestimated.

Google’s Chrome browser now owns the spot of the second most popular browser in two of seven continents.

Mozilla bows to user pressure and will implement a silent (forced) update structure into its browser. Your Firefox will soon update just like Chrome.