With the help of HTML5 and hardware graphics acceleration Microsoft’s Internet Explorer’s threatened to come back big style after clocking up 2.35 million downloads within the first 24 hours of its release giving Chrome and Firefox a bit of a scare. But now Mozilla is estimating 4.7 million Firefox 4 downloads in the same time frame, [...]

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You’re probably sick of all these ‘look back at the year’ things that you get at this time of year but unfortunately, here’s another one. A look back at the internet usage of 2010. The focus was mainly on the smartphone battle and then later the tablet device battle but let’s not forget the multi-million [...]

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“As vulnerabilities go, this kind is the most serious as it allows remote execution of code. This means the attacker can run programs, such as malware, directly on the victim’s computer. It is highly reminiscent of a vulnerability at the same time two years ago which prompted several national governments to warn against using IE [...]

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Remember IE? you know the other internet browser that’s not Chrome or Firefox. Well it’s received some ‘critical updates’ in what’s been described as its biggest patch in history. Microsoft released 17 bulletins on Tuesday collectively addressing a total of 40 software security vulnerabilities. Only two of the patches earn ‘critical’ rating. One critical fix [...]

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There’s a new kid on the internet browser block, going by the name of RockMelt. Backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen the new browser claims that it is very different from its larger competition i.e. Firefox, Chrome, IE; “It does more than just navigate Web pages. It makes it easy for you to do the [...]

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With the fuss that Microsoft has been making you’d have to be blind and death not to have noticed the release of Internet Explorer 9. The browser has hit the market with impressive stats and claims to be the first browser to deliver full hardware acceleration of all HTML5 content. At the start of September, [...]

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Poor IE is being hammered by Firefox and Chrome but Microsoft is set to save the day as it unveils Internet Explorer 9 beta at a launch event later today with a heavy focus on HTML5. The company is set to unveil a host of new features allowing users to pin their favourite sites to the [...]

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Mozilla have proved they aren’t sleeping on the job; late yesterday version 4.0 of Firefox was finally released (currently in beta mode.) Chrome has become increasingly popular but browser statistics show that Google still has catching up to do to match or beat Firefox and despite security scares earlier this year IE remains the King [...]

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