Poor Google. Every time it unveils a new Chromebook, like the $249 version announced on Thursday, the company gets confronted …
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Number One: Google Chrome Finally Slips Ahead of Internet Explorer
I haven’t paid close attention to browser piecharts or percent usage spreadsheets since the late 1990s, when Microsoft and Netscape were slugging it out and some of us were still using Navigator’s “Netscape Composer” WYSIWYG HTML …
This Phone Is All Firefox, All the Way
This year’s CTIA Wireless conference in New Orleans is surprisingly short on major new smartphones. But at last night’s MobileFocus press event, I happened across a fascinating, one-of-a-kind handset which I hadn’t seen in person …
Who’s the Fastest Browser of Them All? Firefox 9 for Windows 7, Safari 5 for OS X Lion
Every so often, Tom’s Hardware runs what it calls a “Web Browser Grand Prix,” putting the latest browsers through a battery of grueling benchmarks. The last throwdown took place in August, and was notable for its inclusion of a …
‘Opera’ Software Company Won’t Miss E-mails Meant for Oprah
It’s Oprah’s last show. A nation mourns.
A software company in Norway, however, probably breathes a sigh of relief.
Turns out the team at Opera Software, who make a neat little web browser of the same name, have for years been fielding incorrectly addressed emails intended for Oprah Winfrey.
Chrome Web Browser Can Hide Address Bar from Sight
Oh no. I hope it isn’t true.
“You hope what isn’t true?”
Someone’s saying that Google might try to kill the URL bar. I really hope not.
“Google might kill the what?”
You know, the URL bar. Or the Address Bar.
“The what?”
The thing at the top of your browser window that displays the URL, the address, of the website …
Farewell Flock, the Browser for Social Network Nuts
It’s time to say farewell to Flock, the social browser that promised so much but never really caught on.
Promised so much? Like what? When Flock first appeared back in 2005, it said it would revolutionize the way people use social networks. It came with social features baked-in, making it much easier to browse sites like Flickr and …
Hey Internet, I’m Talking to You
If you’re running the latest version of Google’s Chrome web browser, you can now talk to the internet. It won’t listen, and it won’t do what you say, but it will recognize what words you’ve spoken. Which is a good start.
The beta of Chrome 11 includes support for a speech input technology, part of the HTML5 standard. That means that
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Mozilla Firefox 4 Hits The Streets Today
Internet Explorer 9 may have gotten all of the attention a few weeks ago, but let the browser wars begin because the final release of Firefox 4 makes its appearance today.
That’s right – it’s no longer in beta. The final build was available yesterday through Mozilla’s FTP servers, but the folks over there aren’t keen on …
Google Just Added 50 Seconds to Your Day
Google just saved you as much as 50 seconds a day. That’s almost six minutes per week. Over five hours every year. Wow. Thanks Google.
How did they do it? Well, yesterday Google engineers announced a change to the code used to display AdSense ads all over the web.
The announcement is aimed at web developers and goes into technical …
IE 9 Gets Downloaded Over 2 Million Times Upon Release
Just 24 hours after its release, Internet Explorer 9 has been downloaded 2.35 million times. Or, that’s also 27 downloads every second. Whichever stat you prefer.
After its appearance last Monday night, the other browsers are not to be left out, and they are right on Microsoft’s tail. Lifehacker just confirmed that Firefox 4 will …
Microsoft Sets New Internet Explorer Release for SXSW Next Week
Perhaps in an effort to whip up Apple-esque levels of pre-launch hype, Microsoft has announced that it will hold the global launch of Internet Explorer 9 at South by South West next week: Monday 14th, at 9pm Pacific time.
The first IE9 beta was released in September last year; a Release Candidate version (sort of halfway between a …