Weekly Browsers Recap, August 9th

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• July, 2010 – Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari Share Up; Firefox, Chrome – Down
As we enter August, it is time to yet again, check the latest market share numbers.

• U.K. Government Refuses to Ditch IE6
Back in February, 2010, the online petition was filled urging British government to dump a 9 year old web browser.

• IE9 Platform Preview 4 Beats Safari 5, Acid3 95/100
In what appears to be the final platform preview of Internet Explorer 9, IE Team has highlighted a bunch of improvements…

• Firefox Tab Candy for Google Chrome
TabSense is a Firefox Tab Candy inspired extension that allows you to group your tabs into separate categories.

• Firefox Heat Map: One Third of the Elements are Dead
Mozilla Labs has released a Firefox heat map which provides a great insight, revealing more information about daily browser functions usage.

• BlackBerry 6 Web Browser
In the official BlackBerry Blog, team has demonstrated some of the features that are coming to a WebKit powered, BlackBerry 6 web browser.

Bonus

• How IE9 Platform Preview Feedback Changed the JavaScript Standard
• Firefox 4 Beta 2 Brings Increased Support for CSS3 Transitions
• Hide and Recover the Firefox Menu Bar
• Gmail Adds More Drag and Drop Features, But Only in Chrome
• Google warns Chrome Canary is only for the brave
• Help us get rid of the old Opera icon
• Tab grouping in Opera
• Theoretical attacks exploit iOS browser flaw
• Study Warns Private Browsing Modes Can Be Bypassed
• Google Search Due to Firefox Default Settings Is Bigger Than Bing, Yahoo; Bidding War Coming Soon

Thanks to Ichann for links.

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