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Chrome gains share in browser market

Google's Chrome browser has increased its share of the market from 7.5 to 8 percent, according to statistics from analytics firm Net Applications Read more

4 October, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

Internet Explorer claws back ground in browser battle

...March. Microsoft's Internet Explorer regained some of its share of the browser market in March, as worldwide usage of Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera... Read more

3 April, 2012 by Stephen Shankland

Chrome takes bite out of IE's share

...fortunes of web browsers continued. Chrome increased its share of the worldwide browser market in June 2011 as Internet Explorer dipped, according to the latest... Read more

4 July, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Pushup the web again, upgrade your browser

...Explorer 6, and I mean it this time. As IE6 has a browser market share of maybe over 10%, is this a wise decision? To... Read more

19 May, 2011

Mozilla promises social, privacy-driven Firefox in 2012

...experience", while introducing multiple stability and performance improvements to the desktop browser.Browser market Although it oversees software such as the Thunderbird email client, Mozilla... Read more

14 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Browsing on tablets and phones hits all-time high

...look more like an anomaly than the new order.In the desktop browser market, months-long trends continued unabated. The top dog, Microsoft's Internet... Read more

4 January, 2012 by Stephen Shankland

IE9 makes gains on Windows 7

...only available on Windows 7 and Vista. According to NetApplications figures for browser market shares, published today, IE9 now has 11.48 percent of the... Read more

1 January, 2012

Firefox 8 release adds native Twitter search

...beginning of 2011, but retain the top two spots in terms of browser market share with 52.63 and 22.52 percent, respectively. Chrome is... Read more

7 November, 2011 by Ben Woods

Microsoft: Browser standards drive innovation

...push towards homogenisation from Microsoft came with the realisation of its falling browser market share following its release of IE6 in 2001. "I think it... Read more

21 October, 2011 by Ben Woods

Google: Patent attacks on Android are not 'effective'

Larry Page has downplayed the growing legal assault on Google's mobile operating system, while announcing a 33-percent rise in revenue and a 26-percent increase in profits for the company Read more

14 October, 2011 by David Meyer

Chrome creeps up on Firefox as second-place browser

...plans for the web. Chrome closed in on Firefox in the worldwide browser market in the third quarter, according to the latest figures. Credit: Net... Read more

4 October, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Windows 7 converging slowly on Windows XP

...total dominance has not been seriously challenged. PC browsers In the web browser market, however, Microsoft's Internet Explorer has lost significant market share: it... Read more

1 September, 2011

Internet Explorer tops browser security tests

Independent tests from NSS Labs have shown IE9 to be by far the most secure browser on the market, successfully filtering almost every socially engineered piece of malware it encounters Read more

16 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Mozilla changes tune on Firefox enterprise support

...from them". Recent statistics have shown that Firefox's share of the browser market is staying more-or-less flat at around 22 percent, while... Read more

20 July, 2011

Web development guru swaps Firefox for Chrome

...mailing list on Sunday.The change reflects the new rules of the browser market in which Firefox no longer holds such a central place. Firebug... Read more

19 July, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

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