web browsers

Microsoft today said its campaign to drive Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) into extinction had done its job in the U.S., where fewer than 1% of users ran the decade-old browser last month.

After a one-month pause, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) resumed its usage share slide in December, dropping to a new low and setting the stage for a fall below 50% as early as March.

Web browsers are in the news: Google's Chrome is poised to overtake Firefox as the number-two browser as Firefox struggles with market share and revenue. IE9 is increasing its market share, but mostly at the cost of other versions of IE. On Tuesday, Opera announced a new release. Does Opera have good news, and more importantly, a reason for your business to consider using it?

My personal jury is still out on Google Chrome. I made the switch from Firefox a couple months ago, and while I like Chrome's speed, features, and overall stability, I do encounter occasional glitches.

A Massachusetts congressman has asked Amazon.com to spell out whether and how its upcoming Silk browser will collect information from users when the retail giant launches its Kindle tablet next month.

Six weeks to the day after the official release of Firefox 6, Mozilla on Tuesday rolled out Firefox 7, the next version of its popular Web browser for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android users.

A recent study tested over 100,000 people using a Web-based intelligence test, then tabulated the results based on the browser used to access the test. The headline in The Register read: It's official: IE users are dumb as a bag of hammers.

Opera Software will debut a new, streamlined user interface in Opera 11.5, a company executive said today, that closely resembles the minimalist design now sported by most of its competitors.

Firefox, Opera, and a horde of mobile upstarts give iPhone, iPad, and Android users plenty of alternatives

Context--an independent information security consultancy--has published a new report on security flaws with WebGL. The report, "WebGL--More WebGL Security Flaws", includes a video clip demonstrating why organizations should think twice about relying on Web browsers built on WebGL.

Mozilla has shipped the beta of the Firefox 5 browser as it moves to a more frequent release schedule.