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Download Safari 5.0.3

By Vygantas | November 23, 2010 | 10 Comments

Download Safari 5.0.3 A couple of days ago, Apple released a new version of Safari 5 web browser that focuses on security, stability and usability improvements.

In addition, an update for Safari 4 was released as well (Safari 4.1.3).

Changelog
– More accurate Top Hit results in the Address Field
– More accurate results in Top Sites
– Fixes an issue that could cause content delivered with the Flash 10.1 plug-in to overlap webpage content
– More reliable pop-up blocking
– Improved stability when typing into search and text input fields on www.netflix.com and www.facebook.com
– Improved stability when using JavaScript-intensive extensions
– Improved stability when using VoiceOver with Safari

Download.

Internet Explorer is Safer than Google Chrome and Firefox

By Vygantas | November 17, 2010 | 7 Comments

Internet Explorer is Safer than Google Chrome and Firefox

Or so it seems.

According to the “Dirty Dozen” applications list (which is basically a collection/report of the most discovered software flaws that require security updates), when it comes to vulnerabilities, Google Chrome is the no. 1 application to get.

Furthermore, same report claims that Internet Explorer has far less security flaws than Safari or Firefox web browsers.
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Browser Adoption Rate Looks Good

By Vygantas | November 5, 2010 | 17 Comments

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.

Statistics
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Oct, 2010 – Google Chrome, Safari Share Up; Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera – Down

By Vygantas | November 3, 2010 | 44 Comments

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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Official HTML5 Test Suite Results

By Vygantas | November 2, 2010 | 8 Comments

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.

Shocker: Browser Ballot Screen Made Little to No Difference

By Vygantas | October 27, 2010 | 10 Comments

When it comes to market share statistics, it looks like everyone’s beloved (or hated) Browser Ballot screen had no drastic effect after all.

While comparing Europe/North America and worldwide market share numbers, Neowin has come up with a conclusion that there is only as little as 1% difference between global and Europe figures.

So here you have it, Internet Explorer “dominance” continues.