Tag archive: Safari

Based off a report from Ireland-based research firm StatCounter, the Google Chrome browser has moved into second place globally for the first time. While Microsoft's Internet Explorer still remains at the top, Mozilla's Firefox browser continued on a downward trend that started at the end of 2010. The research firm reported that Chrome took a 25.7 percent market share in November 2011 while Firefox fell to 25.23 percent. Just two… Read More

On the heels of the iOS 5 update for Apple's lineup of mobile devices, Apple also quietly rolled out an update for the Apple TV. Version 4.4 of the Apple TV operating system offers AirPlay mirroring, the ability to wirelessly mirror content displayed on the iPad 2 or iPhone 4S and view the images or other type of media on a high definition television. Users will also be able to view other applications on the big screen including games… Read More

This Summer's WWDC even held plenty of noteworthy announcements, notably the introduction of iOS 5. The new operating system is due for the iPad, iPhone 3GS, 4, and 4S, as well as third- and fourth-generation iPod Touch this fall–October 12, to be exact. iOS 5 addresses old customer complaints while also bringing some innovative surprises to the table, chief among which is its new Twitter integration. But the upgrade isn’t all play… Read More

According to new data posted this week from a company called Net Applications, Microsoft's Internet Explorer appears to be continuing a downward spiral. Over the last ten months, Microsoft has lost five percent of the web browser market while Google's Chrome has gained about six percent. The amount of people using Internet Explorer is expected to fall below the 50 percent mark around late May of 2012. One bright point for Microsoft… Read More

Earlier this week, 22-year-old Angela McDowell of Spartanburg, South Carolina was leaving a McDonalds when approached by two men in the parking lot. Inside a large cardboard box, the men claimed to be selling discount iPads for $300 based off a volume discount. After showing her a working model, the duo convinced McDowell to purchase an iPad. While McDowell was only able to offer $180 for a new iPad, the deal was quickly made and McDowell… Read More

Move over Firefox, Google Chrome is now the second most popular web browser in the U.K. According to web metrics firm Statcounter, Chrome became the favored browser on 22 percent of U.K. computers last month, edging out Mozilla's Firefox for the second-place spot in the browser hierarchy. As is the norm in most countries, Microsoft's Internet Explorer remained the top-rated U.K. browser with 45 percent of the market share — though… Read More

New figures from Net Applications show that July was a strong month for Apple's Safari: the browser jumps from a 7.48 percent share of the worldwide browser market in June to 8.05 percent in July. Safari was one of only two browsers to gain ground during the month: the other was the traditionally fast-expanding Google Chrome, which went from a 13.11 percent share in June to 13.45 percent in July. Net Applications' figures also… Read More

Update: This so-called study was found to be a hoax by the BBC. Please, disregard. Original text: A newly released study has found that users of Microsoft's line of Internet Explorer browsers have the lowest IQs, on average, than people who regularly use other web browsers. Conversely, Opera users have the highest average IQ. The study (PDF) comes via Vancouver-based “psychometric consulting company” AptiQuant, who tested… Read More

Mozilla released information today about a project designed to put an end to the password. BrowserID requires a user to verify that they are the owner of an email address a single time. Once the email account is verified, users can simply click the sign-in button at a site using BrowserID and log into the site with the email address. This eliminates the step of creating a password as well as clicking a confirmation email link from each site. At… Read More

Last week, Microsoft raised some hackles in the Web development community by claiming that there was no way to implement the WebGL open 3D graphics standard in Internet Explorer without exposing users to unacceptable potential security risks. WebGL is a 3D graphics environment build on OpenGL 2.0, used for many 3D games and technologies, and promises to bring hardware-accellerated 3G graphics support to Web browsers. Google Chrome and… Read More

Here's a strange development in the world of online news consumption. A switch has been flipped that now prevents iPad users from accessing the New York Post's web content in the iOS-powered browser, Safari. Non-iOS tablets can still navigate to the website and mobile phones, including the iPhone, can get into the mobile site. Navigate there in Safari for iPad, however, and you'll be redirected to a product page that asks you… Read More

Google Apps has been leveraging nascent HTML5 capabilities to add bonus functionality to Gmail and Google Apps for a while now, but now the company is going to start requiring “modern” browsers with reasonably full HTML5 capabilities for its Google Apps products. As of August 1, Google Docs will support only the current and the most recent prior major release of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. Among the browsers… Read More

Members of the European Union were to have implemented the EU's ePrivacy Directive by today, May 25, after two years of prep time to comply with the law's requirements. However, in a development that surprises almost no one, virtually no European countries have done so, with only Denmark, Estonia, and the United Kingdom having indicated they've taken any action at all—and the UK's response was to give companies… Read More

It’s easy to get lured into a false sense of security as a Mac user – after all, Apple's personal computers are paraded about as virus immune machines.  Of course that isn’t a catch-all, and a new report from the Intego Mac Security Blog says there is new malware targeting Mac computers. Apple Discussion forums are also rife with complaints of a program called MacDefender (not to be confused with this site). The trojan appears to be… Read More

New data from Net Applications suggests that while Microsoft's overall share of the worldwide Web browser market continues to shrink, Windows Vista and Windows 7 users are increasingly embracing Internet Explorer 9. According to Net Applications, Internet Explorer 9 accounted for some 7.46 percent of all Internet Explorer users during the month of April—and for the last day of April that share measured almost 10 percent. The figure… Read More