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Browsers - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about web browsers including standards, statistics and latest developments.
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- Browsers - Market Share - April 2010
- Web browser market share as report by Net Applications, April 2010
Added: 4 May 2010
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- Firefox Extensions
- The following extensions for Firefox are useful additions for managing websites, and searching for information.
Added: 11 July 2006
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- StatCounter Browser Market Share Statistics - November 2008 - December, 2009
- StatCounter's market share of web browser versions December 2009
Added: 22 December 2009
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- At least two web browsers for every Australian desktop: It should be mandatory
- Written by Renai LeMay on Wednesday, Delimiter, April 18, 2012. "... With the launch of Windows XP in late 2001, Microsoft for the first time successfully married the dramatically more stable operating system kernel it had fundamentally re-written for Windows NT, and matured with Windows 2000, with the consumer- and business-friendly features of its more mainstream operating system lines, which had their genesis from Windows 95, through 98 and then ME. Over time, XP would come to be so stable and popular that more than a decade later, every large Australian organisation would still be running it in some form, somewhere — and a huge amount are still running it on the majority of their staff desktop machines. However, the ubiquity of XP also birthed what Valve Software would refer to as 'unforeseen consequences': It entrenched the bundled Internet Explorer 6 browser as a hideous web standard. With the one true desktop operating system came the one true web browser. And this standardised platform delivered a new era of corporate productivity as large organisations all over the globe developed a new-found enthusiasm for developing in-house applications delivered through a web browser..."
Added: 19 April 2012;
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- Chrome is world's number one browser for a day
- Web analytics firm data confirms trend to Chrome at weekends. StatCounter Global Stats, Boston, USA & Dublin, Ireland; Wednesday, 21st March, 2012. "Google's Chrome narrowly became the world's top internet browser for the first time on Sunday 18 March 2012, according to StatCounter, the independent website analytics company. The firm's research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Chrome topped the polls in India, Russia and Brazil, all of which contributed to it becoming the number one browser for that day on a global basis..."
Added: 23 March 2012;
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- Mozilla launches Firefox 9, speeds up JavaScript
- Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 9, claiming that the new browser processes JavaScript up to 36% faster than its predecessor, By Gregg Keizer - Framingham. Computerworld, Thursday, 22 December, 2011. "... The company also patched six Firefox vulnerabilities, and released a security update to the nearly-two-year-old Firefox 3.6 to quash a single bug there..."
Added: 22 December 2011;
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- Australia the guinea pig in Internet Explorer upgrade pilot
- by Stephen Withers. ITWire, Friday, 16 December 2011. "Microsoft is preparing a scheme to automatically push the latest version of Internet Explorer to users' systems. This can be seen as Microsoft following in Google's footsteps, as part of the thinking behind Chrome was to ensure people stay on the current version..."
Added: 19 December 2011;
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- Firefox 8 tough on add-ons
- By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com. ZDNet Australia, November 9, 2011. "Mozilla has released Firefox 8, a version that weeds out some add-ons, and will shoulder more responsibility for the organisation's new fast-development process. Giving the user control over the web experience has been a longstanding Mozilla priority, and Firefox 8 (download for Windows | Mac | Linux | Android) takes a new step here. With earlier versions, third-party software could extend Firefox with new features — Skype's tool for highlighting phone numbers for easy online calling, for example. With Firefox 8, though, third-party add-ons will be disabled by default..."
Added: 9 November 2011;
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- The brewing browser brouhaha
- by Adam Turner. The Age, September 29, 2011. "Five windows to the web are competing for your online time. The browser wars are heating up again, with Microsoft's Internet Explorer fighting challengers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera to be your window to the web..."
Added: 29 September 2011;
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- Browser Trends, July 2011: 1 in 5 People Now Use Chrome
- By Craig Buckler. SitePoint, July 2, 2011. "It's increasingly difficult to keep track of the browser market. Chrome 12, Firefox 5 and Opera 11.5 were released last month. Some browsers auto-update, some don't. Some vendors have lavish launch promotions, others don't mention it. The big news for July is that Chrome usage has passed 20% for the first time..."
Added: 4 July 2011;
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- Firefox, Internet Explorer or Chrome: Choosing the Best Browser
- By Chad Vander Veen. Government Technology, March 28, 2011. "The latest battle in the 'browser wars' is in full swing thanks to the launch of three new products — Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9, Mozilla's Firefox 4 and Google's Chrome 10. Each new browser aims to be your Web navigator of choice. But how do you know which is right for you?..."
Added: 31 March 2011;
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- Mozilla Firefox 4
- By Seth Rosenblatt, Download.com. ZDNet Australia, March 29, 2011. "Firefox 4 is competitively fast, sports a new minimalist look and includes some excellently executed features. Unfortunately, that describes most of Firefox's competition, too..."
Added: 30 March 2011;
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- Mozilla Launches Firefox 4 and Delivers a Fast, Sleek and Customizable Browsing Experience to More Than 400 Million Users Worldwide
- Posted by Mozilla. The Mozilla Blog, March 22, 2011. "... The latest version of Firefox introduces a sleek new look that lets Web content take center stage. With features like App Tabs and Panorama, Firefox makes it easier and more efficient to navigate the Web. Firefox delivers industry-leading privacy and security features like Do Not Track and Content Security Policy to give users control over their personal data and protect them online..."
Added: 24 March 2011;
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- Internet Explorer 9 Launch Starts Newest Browser War
- Government Technology, March 14, 2011. "... Internet Explorer 9 fired a salvo Monday, March 14, with the browser's official release. Google Chrome 10 was recently unveiled; Firefox 4.0, meanwhile, is in beta and reportedly could be released in a matter of days. What does it all mean for government agencies and public-sector users? Governments should consider it an opportunity to develop more feature-rich websites that take advantage of the browsers' new capabilities. IE 9, for example, includes a new JavaScript engine and full hardware acceleration of text, video and graphics, plus a more robust support of HTML 5..."
Added: 17 March 2011;
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- Why Internet Explorer 9 Will Never Be Number One
- By Tony Bradley, PCWorld, March 12, 2011. "Internet Explorer 9 will be officially available Monday, March 14. Microsoft has a dominant, but dwindling stake in the overall browser market, led by Internet Explorer 8. The reality, though, is that there is virtually no chance that Internet Explorer 9 will be as successful as IE8..."
Added: 17 March 2011;
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- IE6 dependence - a debt that IT need not pay
- Frank Hayes says move away from IE6 will come eventually By Frank Hayes - Framingham. Computerworld, Wednesday, 17 November, 2010. "Internet Explorer may be losing favour among most users, but in big companies, it is still doing fine — especially IE6. Why? "We have to use IE6," a contractor at one telco told me recently. "We have all these web applications that won't run on a browser that isn't broken." And that means big trouble — doesn't it?..."
Added: 18 November 2010;
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- IE 9 does not resize text sized in pixels
- by Roger Johansson. 456 Berea St, Posted on October 18, 2010. "When trying out the beta of Internet Explorer 9 I noticed that there still seems to be no way of increasing or decreasing the size of text set in pixels without zooming the entire page..."
Added: 22 October 2010;
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- Introducing Google Browser Size
- By Arthur Blume on behalf of the Google Browser Size team. Google Code Blog, Wednesday, December 16, 2009. "When I started work at Google, I visited the Google Earth team, hoping to find a 20% project on my favorite Google product. There I met Bruno Bowden, who introduced me to a problem I had never thought much about: how to take browser sizes into account when designing a page..."
Added: 13 October 2010;
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