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Microsoft Launches Internet Explorer Dev Channel For Developers And Early Adopters
While most popular browsers offer numerous release channels, Microsoft has always held back from this idea and instead launched preview versions of its upcoming releases a few weeks or months…
Microsoft Launches BrowserSwarm To Help Web Developers Test Their JS Frameworks And Libraries
Microsoft today launched BrowserSwarm, an open-source tool for testing JavaScript frameworks and libraries across devices and browsers. The aim here, Microsoft says, is to help developers “build great, interoperable frameworks.”…
StatCounter: Google Chrome Pushes Past Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (Again)
Well, it’s official. Or at least it’s official if you believe in StatCounter’s data. Google’s Chrome web browser has overtaken Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. For real this time. Maybe. The stat-counting…
Report: Chrome Doesn’t Win Weekend Browser Battle After All (But Still Popular After Work)
Remember last month, when StatCounter noticed that Chrome surged to briefly (for one day only!) become the world’s most popular web browser? Well, another key finding in its report had…
About Damn Time: Microsoft Will Silently Upgrade Everyone To Latest Version Of IE
On the surface, the announcement sounds boring: Microsoft said this morning that it will begin automatically upgrading Windows customers to the latest version of Internet Explorer starting next year. But…
“Open” Web Browsers Now Majority Of Web — WebKit Continues Rise
A month just ended, which means new stats. In the world of web browsers, there are two particularly interesting ones of significance. One points to “open” web browsers now in…
Google Finally Delivers On Promise Of Admin-Free Chrome Frame Installs For IE
Today at Google I/O in San Francisco, Google developers Amit Joshi and Alex Russell took the stage at a breakout session to announce an important milestone: a version of Chrome…
StatCounter: Firefox 4 Has Already Eclipsed Internet Explorer 9
Mozilla has just released Firefox 4, and in less than a day clocked more than twice the downloads Microsoft boasted about after the release of Internet Explorer 9. Now website…
So Much For Standards, Google Says WebM Plugins Coming Soon For Safari And IE9
We’ve already done a full breakdown of Google’s clarification of their H.264 pullout today. But buried in their post is another interesting nugget worth highlighting by itself: WebM plugins are…
Google Clarifies Their H.264 Stance, Hands Keys Of Web Video's Future Back To Flash
Earlier this week, Google wrote a very short post on their relatively small Chromium blog to announce a big change: they were dropping support for the H.264 codec in Chrome.…
After A Four Year Run, Firefox Is No Longer The Top Browser On TechCrunch — Chrome Is
It has finally happened. It took a little longer than anticipated, but Chrome has now passed Firefox as the browser most often used to visit TechCrunch. For the month of…
Microsoft Sends Us Crayons, Fails To Tell Us IE9 Beta Launches Sept 15
Today, as I walked into TechCrunch headquarters after this morning’s Google Android event, I was approached by a sweaty man who had clearly just ridden his bicycle across town. He’d…
Internet Explorer Bucks The Trend As Worldwide Usage Grew By 0.57% In June
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is showing early signs of a ‘comeback’, reversing a practically constant slide in browser usage over the past few years for the month of June, according to…
StatCounter: IE6 Usage Falls Below 5% In The US, But IE8 Still On The Rise
Microsoft’s oft-lamented browser, Internet Explorer 6, may finally be put to rest. This will make many a Web developer happy – but also Microsoft itself. Web analytics company StatCounter claims…
Where Did Internet Explorer's Browser Share Go?
Yesterday, browser market share figures came out from Net Applications, and the big news is how Chrome is moving up the ranks at the expense of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and…
Google: A Web Browser Is Not A Computer, Not A Search Engine, And Not A Ham Sandwich
Google has spent a significant amount of time over the past couple of years building a very impressive web browser, Chrome. By most accounts, it’s the fastest around, and isn’t…
Mozilla Shows Microsoft Where $10,000 Is Buried
Yesterday, we poked fun at Microsoft’s tacky $10,000 online treasure hunt to get people to use IE8, at the domain TenGrandIsBuriedHere.com. We were hardly the only ones. Today, a developer…
If Only The Hungry Used IE8, They Could Get $10,000 Rather Than $0.14 From Microsoft
I love the range of Microsoft’s campaigns to get people to use Internet Explorer 8. They spread from offering to feed the homeless if you download it, to offering you…
http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/687242818 Dare I say it, but I think my interest in the Bold is beginning to wane. BGR demos both IE and FF emulators that both crash, but that OS…
http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?enablejs=true&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcrunchgear%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss&file=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F797659&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf Peter took this at CTIA earlier today. Windows Mobile 6.1 is shaping up to be a pretty good upgrade, but I’m still looking forward to 7.
http://on10.net/blogs/larry/21442/player/ There’s a beta version of Microsoft’s forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 web browser now available for download over on Microsoft.com if you’re interested. Most of the new stuff seems to…
Don’t visit the HP Info Center with your HP laptop — you could be open to remote execution attacks! A problem with an HP dll appears when you visit HP’s…
Besides the gaming console and DVD format wars we’ve seemed to have forgotten the browser wars, but it seems as though that has come to an end, or at very…