New figures that show Chrome taking the lead are a big deal -- until you realize that nobody agrees on browser market share.
Microsoft is swinging at Google while the company’s down by attacking the search giant for bypassing user privacy settings in Internet Explorer. This, of course, comes after all of the drama with Apple’s Safari, when Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer discovered that Google bypassed that browser’s privacy settings to track users across the web using cookies.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google found a loophole in Apple’s Safari browser — both on desktops and iOS devices — that allowed the search giant to track users across the web using cookies.
Every so often, Tom’s Hardware runs what it calls its “Web Browser Grand Prix,” putting the latest browsers through a battery of grueling benchmarks, but this time they’ve compiled the results using an actual Apple machine.
Here’s how to use a Twitter bookmarklet with the iPad’s Safari web browser. It’s a cool trick that’ll let you quickly and easily tweet an interesting web page out to your followers directly from the browser—no need to try to hunt down a “Tweet This” button or mess around with copying and pasting the page’s link [...]
Think you’re safe from malware if your ride’s a Mac? Think again!
For those of us who’ve had the frustrating experience of trying to use Gmail on iPhone Safari, some small measure of relief is at hand: Google has introduced a connection bar that’ll let you know just how (un)successful your emailing attempts have been.
Everyone loves a smackdown, so how about one that proves whether Google’s Android or Apple’s iPhone is faster? And from a disinterested third-party researcher to boot?
The hackers at last week’s Pwn2Own contest had a field day with some of the world’s most popular browsers, but they didn’t make a clean sweep.
The gents at Ars did a little JavaScript testing on Google’s Android 2.2 versus Apple’s iOS4 to see which platform had a speedier Web browser. Based on SunSpider and V8 benchmarks, Froyo blew the doors off iOS4 and Éclair. According to said benchmark tests, Froyo is nearly three times faster than Éclair and three times [...]
