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Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) vs. Firefox 3.6 vs. Chrome 4 vs. Safari 4

By Vygantas | November 18, 2009 | 28 Comments

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

Silverlight 4 Beta Includes Google Chrome Support

By Vygantas | November 18, 2009 | 7 Comments

Silverlight 4 Beta Adds Google Chrome Support In today’s Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft has announced the availability of Silverlight 4 Beta.

Some of new Silverlight 4 features include: Google Chrome web browser support, applications now start 200% faster than in Silverlight 3, multi touch, webcam and microphone support, a new user interface for requesting application privileges access outside the standard Silverlight sandbox and much more.

Visit Silverlight 4 Beta page.

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Weekly Browsers Recap, November 16th

By Vygantas | November 16, 2009 | 0 Comments

Thanks to Nox for links.

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Google Chrome + Mouse Gestures = ChromePlus

By Vygantas | November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments

Google Chrome + Mouse Gestures = ChromePlus

Our reader Dainius has discovered a new tool/browser called “ChromePlus”. Basically, it’s a Google Chrome web browser with few additional features and without any Chrome background processes.

What additional features?
At this moment, it has the following:

Mouse gestures
Download Tools Support
IE tab
Super drag
Also, an ability to close tabs by double clicking on them.

Want to try it? Here is a home page link.

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October, 2009 – Firefox, Safari and Chrome Market Share Goes Up; IE, Opera – Down

By Vygantas | November 10, 2009 | 91 Comments

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

Weekly Browsers Recap, November 9th

By Vygantas | November 9, 2009 | 3 Comments

Thanks to mabdul for links.

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Google Chrome DOES NOT Have 30 Million Users

By Vygantas | November 4, 2009 | 122 Comments

Google Chrome Does Not Have 30 Million Users It seems that press is picking up a story about Google’s Chrome users count. What they fail to realize is the fact that browser had 30 million active users more than 4 months ago.

“It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly.”
Posted on 7/07/2009.

So, no, Chrome does not have 30 million users, it has over 40 million of them.

Market share:
July, 2009 – 2.59% – 30 million users reported
October, 2009 – 3.58% – ~38% increase = 41 million + users.

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Google Chrome 4, Now With Bookmark Synchronization

By Vygantas | November 3, 2009 | 14 Comments

The latest beta release of Google Chrome 4 has received a bookmark sync feature. Now you will be able to synchronize bookmarks across multiple computers.