It may still be in the lead but the decline of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser is slow and steady.  According to the latest browser usage figures released by NetMarketShare, IE has dropped to just 52.6 market share overall which Google’s Chrome browser making the biggest gains, now up to 17.6%. It’s bad news for [...]

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Security firm NSS Labs have been running some tests on different modern web browsers to see how they defend and protect their users against socially-engineered malware.  This is malware that attempts to trick users into installing it, much in the way Apple Mac users have been suffering with the recent spate of ‘Mac Defender’ malware. [...]

Categories: Firefox, Google Chrome, ie, Internet Explorer, Opera, Security

Nope, this isn’t a belated April fool, with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser only just out of the door and not even delivered to many users yet through Windows Update, the first platform preview of their next version, IE10 is already available to grab at the Microsoft IE Test Drive website. The first demonstration of the [...]

Categories: ie

Google have released the 8th version of their lightweight web browser, Chrome.  The new build 8.0.552.215 has a built-in PDF viewer and over 800 bug fixes.  There is also additional sandboxing that will add welcome security for Internet users. In a statement on their website they said… The Chrome team is happy to announce our [...]

Categories: Google Chrome

Neowin is reporting that new beta of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser has leaked to the web.  The new build, version 9.0.8027.6000 apparently began circulating on the weekend which meant, as it was apparently compiled on Friday 19th October, it must have leaked almost immediately having been finalised. Apparently there are new features including a download [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer, Microsoft

A report compiled by security company Bit9 has named the “dirty dozen” web browsers with the most discovered vulnerabilities, and the results, which have been posted by NeoWin come as something of a, well let’s face it, a major surprise. Bit9′s CEO, Harry Sverdlove said “A variety of vulnerability types – including buffer-overflow and cross-site [...]

Categories: Google, Microsoft

Microsoft has for years been accused of being shy about standard’s compliance.  For many years they said they could do the web better and, for many years the web went along with it. Recently though the company has taken a more pragmatic approach and has moved, slowly admittedly, towards full standards compliance.  With their next [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Most Internet users agree that Microsoft made good progress with Internet Explorer 8 compared to previous releases of the web browser. Internet Explorer 8 introduced some interesting new features, increased the performance of the web browser by a lot compared to previous versions and introduced some new security concepts that made the web browsing experience [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Roman send me an email yesterday about a problem that he researched the other day. He noticed that the mouse cursor in every Firefox tab was disappearing and appearing again with no apparent reason for this behavior. The strange thing was that all tabs were affected, not only one where the webmaster might have played [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera