Archive for November, 2010
Browser Adoption Rate Looks Good
Or does it?
Remember all those “upgrade your browser now” messages and claims that Opera had one of the worst browser adoption rates? Ever wondered if situation has changed after auto update? Let’s find out.
PingDom took 4 day stats from StatCounter and calculated how many users run the latest browser version.
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Google Chrome, Now with PDF Viewer
Apparently, Flash is not enough.
Google has recently announced that the latest version of Google Chrome Beta now includes an integrated PDF viewer.
This is good news for everyone, who prefers their computers to be as clean as possible. No more additional software or plugin downloads for you.
According to blog post, Google has also added an additional layer of security around the PDF viewer, which is always a welcomed step.
Download Google Chrome 7.0.517.44
Today, Google released a new stable version of Google Chrome 7 web browser.
The following build fixes a total of 10 issues, where some of them are security related.
In addition, company awarded 9 bug hunters with a total of $7500 in cash.
Skyfire: Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
Apparently, recently released Skyfire for the iOS became top selling app in just over 5 hours and was doing so well that its publishers had to actually remove it from the app store.
According to the blog post, it far exceeded their initial expectations and was too much for the servers to handle.
When can you expect it to re-appear?
As soon as they increase the capacity of servers. No ETA yet.
Oct, 2010 – Google Chrome, Safari Share Up; Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera – Down
As we enter November, it’s time to yet again, check the browser market share numbers.
It looks like Internet Explorer 9 Beta release did not help at all, as IE market share went down from 59.65% to 59.18% (0.47 point decrease).
Firefox market share is also on the chopping block. It has decreased by 0.1 point, going down from 22.96% to 22.86%. That’s the lowest number this year.
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Apple Approves Skyfire, Brings Flash Support
Well, what do you know; Apple has just approved the Skyfire mobile browser for the iOS.
According to CNNMoney.com, it shall be available on Thursday and is priced at $2.99.
Is it any good? Well, the main selling point is this: Skyfire has a built in Flash video to HTML5 converter. Therefore, iPhone, iPod or iPad users will be able to enjoy Flash content. However, don’t get to excited as it won’t convert games or other non-video related content.
Official HTML5 Test Suite Results
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) compared HTML5 test suite conformance results among different web browsers.
According to the summary, recently released Internet Explorer Platform Preview 6 achieves better results than its competitors.
However, as per our unofficial HTML5 test, IE9 is far from being a leader.
Full results may be found here.
Weekly Browsers Recap, November 1st
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• HTML5: Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Google Chrome 8 vs. Firefox 4 vs. Opera 11 vs. Safari 5
Today, we test five most popular web browsers to find out…
• Shocker: Browser Ballot Screen Made Little to No Difference
When it comes to market share statistics, it looks like everyone’s…
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