Tag Archive | "Firefox"
Beta of Firefox 3.6 now available for the Mac
If you wanna get your Firefox on, a beta of Firefox 3.6 is now available for download for Mac users. You can check out the download page over here. The latest beta version is built on the Gecko rendering engine, and according to Mozilla, includes some of the following features. Users can now change their browser’s appearance [...]
Continue reading...Internet Explorer loses 11.4% of browser market share
Monday, July 6, 2009
Despite an increase in the number of people using IE 8, the overall number of users who browse the web with Internet Explorer continues to dwindle, with the latest report finding that since March, IE has lost 11.4% in browser market share. Internet Explorer has long been chastised for not strictly adhering to web standards, a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday Evening Link Roundup
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The latest links, hot off the press… iTunes launches indie store - Prefix Mag Safari 4 is 42x faster than IE7 and 3.5x faster than Firefox 3 - CNET Apple pulls pre-release iPod from EBAY - WritersBlockLive BlackBerry sales top iPhone sales in December - Electronista Premium-priced MacBook Pros top sales at Apple retail stores - AppleInsider Making sense of Mac market [...]
Continue reading...Only 7% of Firefox users use Macs
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Asa Dotzler, the founder of Mozilla’s Quality Assurance and Testing Program, mentioned in passing that only 7% of all Firefox users use Macs. To be honest, I’m shocked that the number is so low. Safari has some great features, of course, but in terms of actual efficiency in web browsing and navigation, I think Firefox [...]
Continue reading...Latest Firefox beta adds multi-touch support
Thursday, December 11, 2008
MacRumors is reporting that the latest build of Firefox 3.1 contains multi-touch support for the MacBook Air and the latest MacBook’s and MacBook Pro’s. While Safari already supports some basic gestures, multi-touch has yet to be a part of any official Firefox release, though that will likely change when Firefox 3.1 is released. Supported gestures are [...]
Continue reading...Internet Explorer share hits historic lows as Firefox gains ground
Monday, December 1, 2008
Electronista reports that Mac webshare hit 8.9% last month, while Firefox saw its share of the browser market top 20% for the first time in history. Internet Explorer’s share of the browser market dipped below 70%, a significant fall considering that at one point it had over 95% of the market. Internet Explorer has increasingly been [...]
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Monday, November 2, 2009
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