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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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- 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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- 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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- Google Browser Size
- Google. "Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google. For example, the "90%" contour means that 90% of people visiting Google have their browser window open to at least this size or larger. This is useful for ensuring that important parts of a page's user interface are visible by a wide audience. On the example page that you see when you first visit this site, there is a "donate now" button which falls within the 80% contour, meaning that 20% of users cannot see this button when they first visit the page. 20% is a significant number; knowing this fact would encourage the designer to move the button much higher in the page so it can be seen without scrolling..."
Added: 13 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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- IE top trumps in business browser battle
- By Renai LeMay, ZDNet Australia, September 30, 2010. "If you ask any Australian technology professional which web browser they prefer, you'll get a plethora of different answers. The debate about browser preferences is as fiery as the one about desktop operating systems. And each has its supporters. Some prefer Firefox for its open-source nature, the rapid pace of its development and the sheer number of available plug-ins that can extend its functionality. Some prefer Google's Chrome for its speed and the stability generated by keeping each tab in its own memory envelope.."
Added: 1 October 2010;
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- Cross-Browser Testing: A Detailed Review Of Tools And Services
- By Demiurg. Smashing Magazine, June 4, 2010. "... cross-browser testing is an important part of any developer's routine. As the number of browsers increase, and they certainly have in recent years, the need for automatic tools that can assist us in the process becomes ever greater. In this article, we present an overview of different cross-browser testing applications and services. Surely, you are already familiar with some of them, and you may have even stumbled across another overview article, but this one takes a different approach..."
Added: 8 July 2010;
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- How Unique Is Your Web Browser? - in pdf format (429kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). by Peter Eckersley? Electronic Frontier Foundation, May 2010. "Abstract. We investigate the degree to which modern web browsers are subject to "device fingerprinting" via the version and configuration information that they will transmit to websites upon request. We implemented one possible fingerprinting algorithm, and collected these fingerprints from a large sample of browsers that visited our test side, panopticlick.eff.org. We observe that the distribution of our fingerprint contains at least 18.1 bits of entropy, meaning that if we pick a browser at random, at best we expect that only one in 286,777 other browsers will share its fingerprint. Among browsers that support Flash or Java, the situation is worse, with the average browser carrying at least 18.8 bits of identifying information. 94.2% of browsers with Flash or Java were unique in our sample..."
Added: 19 May 2010;
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- Your Web browser's fingerprints can betray you, study finds
- Test reveals that unique browser configurations can allow tracking without the use of cookies, By Kevin McCaney. Government Computer News, May 18, 2010. "Browsers have fingerprints, too, which means that Web sites could be able to identify and track visitors even without the use of cookies or super cookies, according to a recent study by the Electronic Frontier Foundation..."
Added: 19 May 2010;
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- Legacy Browser Support: When to Cut the Ties That Bind
- By Jack Aaronson, ClickZ, February 5, 2010. "When developing rather sophisticated sites for high-end retailers, a constant issue is which browsers to support. What are the merits of continuing support for legacy systems, and the merits of looking forward? Many of you probably have similar decisions to make this year while you're pondering your 2010 strategies..."
Added: 12 February 2010;
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- Microsoft Windows forced to offer 12 browsers as EU antitrust case ends
- From correspondents in Brussels, From: AFP, News.com.au, December 17, 2009. "Regulatiors have forced Microsoft, the world's biggest software company, to open up its Windows operating system to rival internet browsers in a landmark decision. Bringing down the curtain on a decade-long antitrust tussle, the legally-binding agreement will see new computer users presented as of March 2010 with 12 browser options when they configure their systems..."
Added: 17 December 2009;
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- IE8 can't stem bleeding of Microsoft's browser market share
- IE's share falls to new low; Firefox, Chrome and Opera post solid gains, By Gregg Keizer - Framingham. Computerworld, Wednesday, 2 December, 2009. "Internet Explorer's market share ebbed again last month, a web measurement firm said today, more proof that Microsoft's release of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) hasn't stopped desertions to rival browsers. Mozilla's Firefox, Google's Chrome and Opera Software's Opera all posted solid gains, according to California-based Net Applications..."
Added: 2 December 2009;
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- Which browser is the riskiest? The answer may surprise you
- By Jabulani Leffall. Federal Computer Week, November 17, 2009. "Microsoft's efforts to solve server-side Web vulnerabilities and to patch its Internet Explorer client, may be paying off. While IE is still the most widely used browser for viewing content on the Internet--and thus, the most widely targeted for assaults--it had the second best ranking among the top four browsers in sidestepping vulnerabilities, according to a new study..."
Added: 18 November 2009;
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- IE tumbles, Firefox regains market share mojo
- IE6 numbers take a nose dive; Firefox reaps nearly all the benefit, by Gregg Keizer. Computerworld, 2 September, 2009. "Last month, Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer posted its largest market share loss since November 2008, while Firefox reaped nearly all the benefit, Web metrics company Net Applications said today..."
Added: 3 September 2009;
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- When good browsers go bad -- and they all do
- Better browsers. Better standards. Better tools. So why are Web pages still breaking? by Robert L. Mitchell. Computerworld, 25 February 2009. "Jeffrey Zeldman must have thought he'd never live to see the day. Ten years after he co-founded the Web Standards Project, all of the major browser vendors have shown renewed commitment to supporting World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards in the last few years -- and they're following through..."
Added: 26 February 2009;
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