Category: Internet Explorer
Microsoft Offers a Chance to Win a Laptop and Few Mouses

Surfing the web, I came across an interesting Microsoft ad (Lithuanian language).
What does it say?
Basically, if you download IE8 and register in the following site, you are eligible to win 1 out of 8 Microsoft Arc Mouses or Aspire 1410 Olympic Edition laptop.
Turns out, they were already giving away Lenovo laptop and Microsoft mouses some time ago as well.
What about IE8 market share in Lithuania? Continue Reading
Internet Explorer 9 Video from Microsoft PDC09
It’s time to see everything in action. Here is a speech from Microsoft’s PDC 2009 about IE9, upcoming features and few demos. Enjoy.
Part 1
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 30th

- IE6 and IE7 vulnerable to latest flaw; IE8 immune
- IE bug leaks private details from 50 million PDF files
- Firefox’s Plan to Kick the Login’s Butt
- Alex Faaborg’s Identity Mockup
- 10 Firefox Extensions Google Chrome Should Have Too
- Opera 10.10 closes “extremely severe” hole
- Almost 40 million people used Opera Mini last month
- Safari on iPhone gets competition from a $1 browser app
- OneWeb demonstrates the power of XMPP inside the browser
- Maxthon 2.5.10 Supports Multi-touch and other Windows 7 features
Thanks to mabdul and Nox for links.
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Internet Explorer 8 Blocks 2 Million Malicious Websites Daily

Dean Hachamovitch at IEBlog revealed that Internet Explorer 8 SmartScreen filter blocks over 2 million malicious sites every day. That’s quite a number.
SmartScreen offers protection against phishing and cross-site scripting attacks.
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Internet Explorer 8 for eBay
As Christmas approaches, Microsoft and eBay teamed up to release Internet Explorer 8, eBay edition.

This version offers 3 new features:
Daily deal updates, visual search and ability to search eBay using accelerator.
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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 23rd

- IE8 bug makes ‘safe’ sites unsafe
- MS discovers flaw in Google plug-in for IE
- Microsoft Windows chief decries standards grandstanding
- Firefox 3.6 locks down component directory – Update
- Security vulnerabilities in add-ons imperil Firefox users
- Google set to promote Chrome extensions
- Opera widgets without Opera…
- WebKit nightlies support HTML5 noreferrer link relation
- Camino 2 adds tab overview, phishing and malware protection
- Update on Camino 2 crashes
Thanks to Nox and mabdul for links.
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Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Firefox 3.6 vs. Chrome 4 vs. Safari 4
IEBlog has published Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) (not final version) SunSpider benchmark results and compared them to Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome 3, Google Chrome 4, Safari 4 and latest Webkit Nightly build.
Let me tell you, this graph looks promising so far: Continue Reading
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) to Support Hardware Accelerated Rendering
You wanted more details about upcoming Internet Explorer 9 release? Here, you have it.
Steven Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Live divisions said that IE9 will take an advantage of a computer’s graphics hardware to better render online images, videos, animations and other graphics.
“We think that the hardware you run on should shine through the browser”, Sinofsky Said.
Smooth graphics rendering is also included into Internet Explorer 9 features tree. In addition, he said that team has yet to decide, on how much of HTML5 features IE9 is going to support.
With improved HTML/CSS markup languages support, Sinofsky also demoed IE’s ability to create rounded borders.
No further details or preliminary release dates were revealed.
Stay tuned.
Via SeatlePi.
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Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), Silverlight 4 Plans to Emerge Tomorrow
Neowin reports that Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky is going to announce plans for Internet Explorer 9 tomorrow, at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC).
Also, Scott Guthrie shall reveal more details about Silverlight 4.
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October, 2009 – Firefox, Safari and Chrome Market Share Goes Up; IE, Opera – Down
It’s that day of the month again, when we check and let you know, which web browser is becoming more and/or less popular. So let’s begin.
Not surprisingly, Internet Explorer lost more market share and went down from 65.71% to 64.64% (1.07 point decrease).
Celebrating its 5th birthday, Firefox market share went up from 23.75% to 24.07% (0.32 point increase). Continue Reading



