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Technolog – Chrome inching up to No. 2 browser

October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Google’s Chrome Web browser continues to shine; it’s making its way up the list of top desktop browsers, according to Net Applications, which shows Chrome at 16.20 percent, compared to 8.76 percent a year ago around this time.

In contrast, Internet Explorer’s market share continues to decline, from 60.99 percent a year ago to 54.39 percent; and Firefox, which had 23.55 percent last year now has 22.48 percent of the desktop market share. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

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‘Related’ Browser Add-On: Handy, But at Cost to Privacy | PCWorld

August 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

A nifty Google browser extension called “Google Related” makes finding associated Web content a snap, but for privacy-minded Web surfers the convenience will come with a hefty cost. The Chrome Web browser extension creates a navigation bar at the bottom of the browser, and as you roll your mouse cursor over the bar Google generates content relevant to what’s on the page you’re viewing.

Google announced the Web browser extension Tuesday for its Google Chrome Web browser. The Google Related add-on takes the form of a toolbar for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. No support for Apple’s Safari, Firefox, or Opera Web browser software was announced.

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TweetDeck’s Web App Coming to All Major Browsers – NYTimes.com

April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

TweetDeck’s Web application, which made its Chrome Web Store debut back in December, has generally proved to be a worthy alternative to the TweetDeck AIR application for the desktop. However, up until today, the Web app only worked with Google’s Chrome Web browser.  Now, says the company, TweetDeck is coming to all the major browsers, including Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera.

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Chrome tips users to dangerous Windows downloads – Computerworld

April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Google on Tuesday said it will add malware download warnings to its Chrome browser.

The move has Google following the lead of rival Microsoft, whose Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) also alerts users of questionable downloads.

Google will use its Safe Browsing service to flag sketchy downloads, the company said in a post on a company blog. Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari already tap into Safe Browsing — which identifies suspicious or unsafe sites, then adds them to a “blacklist” — to warn of dangerous sites before users actually reach those sites.

Safe Browsing will also provide the data for Chrome’s download blocker, said Google.

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Microsoft: Run IE9 for long-lasting laptop battery – Computerworld

March 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is the most power-efficient browser on the planet, Microsoft claimed this week.

IE9, which launched March 14, bested rivals from Apple, Google, Mozilla and Opera when Microsoft ran the five biggest browsers through six power consumption scenarios, the company said.

In a lengthy blog post thick with graphs, a trio of Microsoft managers laid out the results of those tests, which showed that on a Windows 7 laptop with a 56 Watt/hour battery, IE9 could be used for three hours and 45 minutes before exhausting the power supply. (The “56 Watt/hour” designation means that the battery can provide 56 Watts of power for one hour before it’s drained.)

The closest competitor was Mozilla’s Firefox 4, which came in at 3 hours and 35 minutes, just 10 minutes shy of IE9.

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Chrome 10 Beta Supercharges Performance | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

February 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Just when it was looking like Google Chrome couldn’t get any faster, a new beta shows up and shatters that impression. On Thursday, the search titan announced a new Chrome 10 beta that boosts JavaScript performance by a substantial 66 percent, as measured by Google’s own V8 benchmark, and implements GPU-accelerated video playing. The beta also changes the way users set options, and lets them sync passwords.

In my own speed tests on a 2.6-GHz dual-core laptop, Chrome 10 beta showed significant improvements on Google’s VE benchmark and Mozilla’s Kraken, but on Webkit’s SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark, it was nearly identical, and still trailed Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate’s 231ms. Here are my results, showing how Chrome 10 improves on 9:

Benchmark Chrome 9 Chrome 10 Beta Percent Change

Google V8 v6 (higher is better) 5164 8294 +61

Mozilla Kraken (ms—lower is better) 15657 8541 +45

SunSpider 0.9.1 (ms—lower is better) 286 284 >1

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Google Bets $20,000 You Can’t Hack Chrome — InformationWeek

February 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment

HP TippingPoint on Wednesday announced the dates for its Pwn2Own hacking competition — March 9-11 in Vancouver — and that Google has augmented the contest’s $105,000 cash award fund with an additional $20,000 for anyone who can compromise the Chrome browser.

Other Web browsers available to potential hackers at the contest will include the latest release candidates of Apple’s Safari, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and Mozilla’s Firefox, running on 64-bit systems under either Windows 7 or Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

The laptops used will be either a Sony Vaio, an Alienware m11x, or an Apple MacBook Air 13″. For a successful hack of Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari, the hacker will win the laptop used and a $15,000 cash prize, along with some other benefits.

If Chrome is hacked — and this requires escaping the Chrome sandbox using vulnerabilities only in Google-written code — the competitor will win $20,000 and a Google CR-49 Chrome OS netbook. Perhaps because of the unfinished state of Chrome OS, competitors will not have the option of trying to break into Chrome on a Chrome OS netbook.

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Firefox Leads Browsers in Europe, Firm Says – NYTimes.com

January 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

For the first time in a decade, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is no longer the leading Web browser in Europe, ceding the position to Mozilla’s Firefox, an Irish research company that tracks Web use said on Tuesday.

While three research companies also active in the field disputed the finding, StatCounter, a company in Dublin, said Firefox surpassed Internet Explorer as the top European browser in December, with a 38.1 percent share, compared with Explorer’s 37.5 percent.

“This is a watershed event for Europe,” said Aodhan Cullen, StatCounter’s chief executive and founder. Mr. Cullen said Microsoft had lost market share mainly to Google’s Chrome browser, whose share rose to 14.6 percent from 5.1 percent a year earlier.

Internet Explorer is still the leader worldwide, with a 46.9 percent share in December, versus 30.8 percent for Firefox and 14.9 percent for Google, StatCounter said.

Barbara Hüppe, a Mozilla spokeswoman in Berlin, said that her company tended to follow other studies more closely, which still placed Microsoft ahead of Firefox in Europe. But she said the StatCounter ranking showed the market was tightening.

“This is very positive for us,” Ms. Hüppe said. “We have been the top browser in Germany, the biggest European market, since 2010. That has helped us a lot. ”

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Google offering MSI to simplify Chrome enterprise deployment

December 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

In an effort to boost Chrome adoption among businesses, Google has been working to make the browser easier to manage and deploy in enterprise computing environments. This could help Chrome gain some marketshare at the expense of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

Google is publishing an official Chrome MSI package that administrators can easily roll out to their users. The browser has also gained support for management via Group Policy on Windows. Unlike the regular Chrome installer, which puts the browser in the user’s home directory and updates it invisibly in the background, the MSI package will install at the system level and allow administrators to have some control over the update process.

Administrators can bundle preinstalled Chrome extensions in the deployment and can also control which extensions users are allowed to add. Various settings—such as the default home page, password management options, proxy configuration, and whether data synchronization is enabled—can all be managed by the administrator. A complete policy reference is available on the Chromium developer website.

The MSI package is a big step forward when it comes to simplifying enterprise Chrome deployment, but Google aims to do more to help out system administrators. Easier support for cross-platform deployment is among the goals on the roadmap.

“We’ve been hearing a lot of feedback from IT administrators who want to manage and configure Google Chrome. Of course, we were eager to do what we could to help them get Chrome deployed inside their organizations,” wrote Chrome product manager Glenn Wilson and engineer Daniel Clifford in a blog post. “Today, after talking directly to administrators and testing the features extensively with other organizations, we believe the first set of features is ready for prime-time.”

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Microsoft explores privacy with new feature | CBC News

December 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Microsoft is adding a new feature to Internet Explorer that will allow users to opt out of being tracked by certain websites.

A new Internet Explorer feature will allow users to opt out of being tracked by certain websites. (iStock)The move comes amid growing demands for more privacy online, and U.S. government moves to introduce “do not track” legislation unless the internet industry does a better job of policing itself.

Data mining has grown into a $25-billion US industry as marketers scramble to better understand what makes individual consumers spend their money, and then design marketing efforts to target them.

In a presentation to the U.S. Congress last week, the Federal Trade Commission’s director of consumer protection David Vladeck pointed to a case involving Sears.

The retailer was using tracking software that collected information from shoppers about online purchases, online bank statements, email headers and subject lines, drug prescription records and other sensitive data.

In another case, a company selling software which allowed parents to spy on their children’s online activity was selling data that included children’s real time online chats to marketers and web developers.

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