Product manager preps extension developers for public beta
Google will release a beta of its Chrome browser for the Mac in a matter of weeks, a company manager has said.
Chrome breaks 3% barrier, Firefox nears record, Safari stalls
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) again lost a big chunk of market share last month as Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome continued to chip away at the world's dominant browser, a Web metrics company said today.
Google's Chrome browser is now faster and has gained the ability for users to hide thumbnails on its New Tab page
Google's Chrome browser is now faster and has gained the ability for users to hide thumbnails on its New Tab page. The update, internally called Chrome 2, is being automatically rolled out to current users and is also available for download, according to Chrome team member Darin Fisher, writing in the Google corporate blog.
For the third consecutive month, Mozilla, Apple and Google all gained share at IE's expense.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) again lost market share last month, although at a slower rate than the previous two-month stretch, but still ended at a new low of 67.6% as rivals continued to steal users, a Web metrics firm reported Sunday.
Traditionally, Europeans are much more likely than Americans to ditch IE and turn to an alternative.
Fewer than 60% of European Web users run Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a French-based metrics company reported yesterday, while more than 31% have switched to Mozilla's Firefox.
Chrome 0.3.154.9 will be automatically pushed to current users.
Google Wednesday released the third beta version of Chrome, the browser it introduced nearly two months ago, to fix a single security vulnerability and address several other problems.
Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari continue to eat away at IE's dominance.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) continued to lose market share in September, Google's Chrome stabilized at under 1 percent and more than half of Firefox 2.0 users accepted an offer to update to Version 3.0, a Web metrics firm said Wednesday.
All you need to know on the latest beta release of Internet Explorer 8.
With all the hubbub surrounding Google's rollout of Chrome last week, nearly lost in the buzz was the release the week before of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2.
Is Chrome and Google's hosted Web apps the threat Microsoft has been worried about since the 1990s?
Last week's unveiling of a new browser is the latest in a series of moves by Google to rid the world of Microsoft Windows, according to analysts.
Less than a week after rolling out its new Web browser, Chrome, Google has now released an update to fix a critical vulnerability in the beta app.
Just days after it rolled out Chrome, Google issued an update after Vietnamese security researchers reported a critical vulnerability in the beta browser.
Firefox says it's been working on TraceMonkey for just a few months, while Google has spent two years on its JavaScript interpreter.
Mozilla answered claims that Google's Chrome browser outperforms Firefox with benchmark results of its own that showed the upcoming Firefox 3.1 is faster at executing JavaScript.
Google heaps praise on the iPhone, Chrome and their cloud potential at the Office 2.0 Conference.
A Google executive Thursday heaped praise on Apple's iPhone, even with his company set to challenge Apple in this same space with its Android mobile computing platform.
Chrome suffers similar vulnerability to Apple's Safari carpet bomb bug.
Attackers can combine the months-old "carpet bomb" bug with another flaw disclosed last month to trick people running Google's brand-new Chrome browser into downloading and launching malicious code, a security researcher said today.