Archive for November, 2012
Download Google Chrome 23 Final
The latest stable build is here.
Catching up with the competition, the search giant has released the final version of the Google Chrome 23 web browser. As promised earlier, the following build includes a widely requested, Do Not Track feature.
However, most importantly, for all the tablet and laptop users out there, Google did a lot of work to optimize the overall browser efficiency. The result? You can now surf the web up to 25% longer than with its predecessors, thanks to the GPU accelerated video decoding.
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Mozilla To Pay $1.5 Million For Its Tax Affair
Back in 2007, Mozilla has decided that it does not have to pay taxes for the revenue that comes from Google’s search partnership. Why? Because according to them, 66 million (out of 77 million) dollars were a form of contribution and therefore, should not be taxable.
Unfortunately for them, the US government held a different opinion and as a result, Mozilla had to settle and will be paying a total of $1.5 million.
Better luck next time.
Download Opera 12.10 Final
The stablest Opera build yet.
After a total of 4 release candidate builds, Norwegian browser maker has just released the final build of the Opera 12.10.
So how exactly will it improve your experience? Thanks to features like pre-fetched DNS (so domain name system look up is performed on mouse over) and SPDY (check preliminary benchmark results here), users should see a nice performance increase, especially when browsing Gmail, Twitter and other, SPDY enabled sites.
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October, 2012 Desktop Market Share: Firefox Slides Below The 20% Mark
Hey, it’s that time of the month again as we kick off the week with the new data from the NetApplications.
Starting with the Internet Explorer, it looks like Microsoft’s market share is slowly edging higher, up from 53.63% to 54.13 (0.5 point increase).
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October, 2012 Mobile Market Share: Android Browser – Up; Safari, Opera – Down
Join us as we take a look at the latest market share numbers from October.
It looks like the new iPhone and continuous iPad sales did not have a huge impact on the market. In fact, the latest data shows that Safari lost 3.7 points of its share, down from 64.01% to 60.31%.
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Mozilla On Browser Ballot Glitch: Millions Of Firefox Downloads Lost
Moments after sending the delicious cake to Microsoft’s IE team, Harvey Anderson, the Vice President of Business Affairs at Mozilla, has published a blog post, which investigated the consequences of the browser ballot glitch.
According to Harvey, Firefox downloads saw a decrease of 63% to as low as 20,000 per day and increased by 150% to 50,000 per day after the fix was issued.
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