With the release of the first versions of Chrome 7, we noticed a subtle speed increase in graphics-heavy websites  and suggested that Google is improving Chrome’s overall graphics performance. (more…)

Google has a plan to become a force in everything from TV to gaming, and today it’s become clear that plan involves the upcoming Chrome Web Store. (more…)

Mozilla Officially Unveils A Pre-Alpha Test Version Of Firefox For Android

Late last month, a number of sites noted that a very early build of Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox, was available to download for Android phones. (more…)

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Have you ever wondered why people put http:// in front of website addresses? Well, without getting into the details, it actually an important part of how the web works. (more…)

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Google has clearly had enough with Internet Explorer 6.

As of March 1, Google will no longer support IE6 on its Google Docs and Google Sites services, (more…)

Microsoft Learned of IE Zero-Day Flaw Last September

Microsoft was aware months ago of a critical security vulnerability well before hackers exploited it to breach Google, Adobe and other large U.S. companies but did not patch the hole until Thursday. (more…)

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uTorrent – the preferred Bittorrent client for many BitTorrent users – has been doing really well in 2009. Contrary to reports claiming that BitTorrent and P2P usage has been declining, in the last year uTorrent nearly doubled its userbase to 52 million unique users a month. (more…)

Google Chrome is now available for computers running Linux and Mac OS X

The Chrome web browser – which has been available on PCs since September 2008 – is now available for computers running Apple‘s operating system, Mac OS X, and for the open-source platform, Linux. (more…)

Is Firefox Approaching 50% Market Share?

At least in one large region of the world, the answer is “yes”.

The folks at Gemius have been kind enough to aggregate their individual country data (e.g., www.en.ranking.pl/) into a single view across their entire sample – a sample totaling more than 60 Billion page views each month. (more…)

Component Directory Lockdown – New in Firefox 3.6

We hate crashes. When Firefox crashes, we try to get you back on your feet as quickly as possible, but we’d much rather you not crash in the first place. In Firefox 3.6, we are changing the way that some third party software hooks into Firefox which should eliminate a good chunk of those crashes without sacrificing our extensibility in any way. In the process, we’ll also be giving you greater control over the code that runs in your browser. (more…)