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post #41 of 47
11/3/10 at 12:53pm
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Originally Posted by Djembe View Post
overall, it looks like IE and Firefox are slowly losing ground and that Chrome is gaining.
I believe that we will see the next standard generation browser in the work at the moment. IE is still the main driving force with Microsoft commitment to bring the HTML5 implementation forward.

Latest test shows that IE9 is ahead of the pack in this area:



Read more here.

So interesting to see Microsoft conforming more and more to standard

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post #42 of 47
11/19/10 at 7:39am

Browsers November 2010

Looking like that IE is gaining from last month ...




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post #43 of 47
11/22/10 at 12:28pm

Perceived Security of Browsers :D

So besides asking for which is the fastest browser one should add ... and the most secure

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The Google Chrome browser has earned the dubious distinction of being named the most vulnerable application on the "Dirty Dozen" list of 12 applications with the most discovered software flaws requiring security updates and notifications from January through mid-October.

The annual "Dirty Dozen" list, compiled by security vendor Bit9 based on information available in the National Institute of Standards and Technology's public National Vulnerability Database, puts Google Chrome in the No.1 spot with 76 reported vulnerabilities.

The No. 2 spot is held by Apple's Safari browser at 60 reported vulnerabilities while Microsoft Office was No. 3 with 57. The rest of the "Dirty Dozen" ranking are as follows:

4. Adobe Acrobat -- 54

5. Mozilla Firefox -- 51

6. Sun JDK -- 36

7. Adobe Shockwave Player -- 35

8. Microsoft Internet Explorer -- 32

9. RealNetworks RealPlayer -- 14

10. Apple Webkit -- 9

11. Adobe Flash Player -- 8

12. Apple Quicktime and the Opera Web browser (tied) -- 6

A variety of vulnerability types -- including buffer-overflow and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities -- impacted these applications, says Harry Sverdlove, CTO at Bit9, which this year sifted through 3,268 reported vulnerabilities to create its list.
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... but wait, we need to read about the validity of this yearly report as well, don't we?

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"To say that Google's Chrome is the most vulnerable application is to lead IT folks to a conclusion that they should be using a browser other than Chrome and therefore leading them to the wrong conclusion,"
Maiffret writes and what he means ...

Fun

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post #44 of 47
12/2/10 at 4:33am
Hi all. I am new here and hope to gain and share ideas. As I know chrome is better than firefox and opera.
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post #45 of 47
12/10/10 at 2:42pm
So the latest updates (tests) give us some interesting observation:

- fast (Chrome 8 and Opera 10)
- resources usage: Firefox 3.6 a clear winner with and without extension, using less memory than others.

Read more here.

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post #46 of 47
12/16/10 at 7:51am
Your school is telling you what browser to use?! Wow! They really shouldn't care so long as you find the information to complete your assignments on time.
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post #47 of 47
1/5/11 at 7:33pm
For the first time in history, more European users are surfing the web with Mozilla's Firefox than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

According to web-monitoring firm StatCounter, Internet Explorer's dominance across the continent has waned dramatically over the course of the past 12 months, with market share dropping from 44.9 per cent in January 2010 to 35.5 per cent in January 2011.

The near-10-per-cent decline has seen IE relinquish its grip as Europe's most popular browser to Firefox. Mozilla's challenger, despite having shown a 0.5 per cent decrease in popularity over the same period, now commands a leading 39.4 per cent of the market.

StatCounter chief executive Aodhan Cullen claims the change of fortune may be a direct result of the 2010 browser ballot agreement between the European Commission and Microsoft, in which the software giant agreed to give European users of Windows PCs a choice of browser - as opposed to defaulting to Internet Explorer.

IE's steady decline is likely be attributed to the EU agreement, but the increase in popularity of Google's relatively-new Chrome browser may also be a factor. In the past year, Chrome market share has risen from 5.8 per cent to 15.1 per cent - the largest increase of any single browser over the same period.

In the global stakes, Microsoft's IE continues to hold top spot at 45.1 per cent, followed by Firefox at 31.4 per cent and Chrome at 15.6 per cent

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