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German government recommends Chrome browser

, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [5]

The most common web browsers in most countries are Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. While in the US, our government doesn't recommend specific software for security when you're online, in Germany it's a different story. Germany's federal office of information security, known by the German initials of BSI, on the other hand, often recommends software to German citizens for the security. Read The Full Story

Firefox flirting with half-baked Chrome launcher rival

, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [4]

If you're a fan of the Firefox Web browser, you know that things haven't been going too well over Mozilla. The Firefox browser has been bleeding users to other browsers like Google Chrome to the point that it is actually dropped in rankings for users. The Firefox team over at Mozilla is intent on getting the users back and its daily builds show they are playing with new features, even if those features have apparently been pulled already. Read The Full Story

Chrome browser gets WebRTC baked in for Skype challenge

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [1]

Google has released a dev-version of Chrome supporting WebRTC, the integrated real-time audio and video communications system that could see VoIP, video conferencing and even streaming gaming baked into the browser. "Instead of relying on custom, OS specific, proprietary plug-ins," the Chromium blog says of developers, "they can now easily build and maintain their apps using a few simple JavaScript APIs and have the browser do the heavy lifting." Read The Full Story

Internet Explorer slips as Chrome grabs browser market share

, Jan 2nd 2012 Discuss [7]

The battle of the browsers continues, with Microsoft's Internet Explorer losing market share to Google's Chrome and others, while analysts predict a sub-50-percent dip for IE as early as March 2012. Counting all versions, Internet Explorer dropped to 51.9-percent market share in December according to Net Applications, ComputerWorld reports, with Chrome ending the year at 19.1-percent. However, Microsoft maintains that the most important number to consider is the growth in IE9 installs on Windows 7. Read The Full Story

Google Chrome 15 is now the top browser version, but not the top browser

, Dec 15th 2011 Discuss [5]

If you're the sort of person who follows technology news across multiple websites, you may be seeing a story about how Google has finally out-done the rest of the browsers in the world with their magical fantastical Chrome browser version 15. What you might not be seeing as clearly is that though this version of the browser has beaten Internet Explorer version 8.0, it's still out-done by the the Microsoft-made browser on the whole. Those users who do not update their browsers when they should - aka your mother and father and your uncle Bob, they are the ones ruining the fun for the team at Microsoft. Read The Full Story

Microsoft to auto-update old Internet Explorer users

, Dec 15th 2011 Discuss [6]

Microsoft has announced plans to automatically upgrade older versions of Internet Explorer, such as the much-maligned IE6, from January 2012. The decision is intended to bring Windows XP, Vista and 7 users up to date with safer, more efficient versions of the browser, though Microsoft is keen to point out that nobody will be forced to upgrade if they don't actually want to. Read The Full Story

Google releases Chrome 16 update with multi-user sign-in

, Dec 13th 2011 Discuss [3]

Google has posted the final stable release version of Chrome 16. This update to the Chrome browser was mainly focused on supporting multiple account sign-ins so that more than one user can share the same browser. This way you can access your own bookmarks, extensions, web apps and more, while also being able to bring this personalized experience to all your devices. Read The Full Story

Google Chrome browser reinvigorates Native Client push for game developers

, Dec 9th 2011 Discuss [3]

When it comes to promoting your web browser to the internet, it can get pretty meta pretty quick, and but when your Google and you've got your hands in every single technologically related outlet on the planet and you want to even promote one component of a product you've got, you should have no trouble -- that's what Google is doing here with "Native Client" integration on their Chrome web browser. Having announced the game store for Google Chrome earlier this year along with Native Client, aka NaCl for short, it became rather apparent to many that this was no joke - real high-quality games could definitely sit in this space - now Google is seeing other groups like SpaceTime Studios adopt NaCl for themselves and they've decided to sound the horn once more. Read The Full Story

Opera 11.60 desktop browser launches

, Dec 6th 2011 Discuss [8]

Opera software has announced today that it is now releasing a new version for its desktop browser for fans to download. The new version of the browser is Opera 11.6 and it has a bunch of new features. Apparently, one of the biggest benefits of the new browser is that Justin Bieber doesn't use it. Let's be honest, that is a benefit. Read The Full Story

Firefox loses Google contract producing 84% of its revenue

, Dec 5th 2011 Discuss [13]

For a long time Firefox from Mozilla was the second most popular web browser right being Internet Explorer from Microsoft. Over the last year, Mozilla has been hit hard in the browser wars with key workers leaving the firm and it has been struggling with some issues that have seen users of Firefox defect to competing browsers like Chrome. Read The Full Story

Chrome browser to get support for gamepads and more

, Nov 25th 2011 Discuss [2]

If you are a fan of the Google Chrome browser you will appreciate this. Chrome is said to be getting an update that will add some new support to make gaming on the browser more fun. The browser will be getting support for gamepads. The tip comes from Paul Kinlan, the Google developer advocate. Kinlan made the statement at Develop Liverpool. Read The Full Story

Opera 11.60 beta breaks cover

, Nov 10th 2011 Discuss [1]

If you are a big fan of the Opera desktop browser there is a new beta version for you to check out if you are into beta testing. The new version of the browser is 11.60 and it adds in some interesting features that some people will really like. The new version of the browser has a new HTML5 parsing algorithm that is Opera's own implementation. Read The Full Story
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