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It appears that Google Chrome finally overtook Microsoft Internet Explorer as the world’s most popular browser last week — at least according to statistics fromthe web analytics service Statcounter. As TNW points out, measuring this kind of usage is hardly a perfect science, but as you can see from the trend line in the graph above, this is the way things have been going for some time now. Just when Internet Explorer was starting to get better? [Statcounter via Global Nerdy via The Next Web]
Rumour: the Xbox will get a full version of Internet Explorer. More rumours: it will rely heavily on Kinect controls, for Minority Report-style operation and voice control. Even more rumours: no date on launching date yet. [The Verge]
We need to talk about my addiction to opening browser tabs. And leaving them open. Because maybe it’s your addiction, too. Right now I have 16 tabs open, of which four are actively being used. The remaining 12 are split between a) pages I need to reference for something I’m not working on right now and I don’t want to close them because then I’ll forget b) pages I think I’m about to need but in reality probably will not.
A copy of a Microsoft roadmap has been leaked online, showing what’s in store for some key products. Most notably, it looks like an Internet Explorer 10 launch could be imminent.
As AOL offloaded a billion dollar’s worth of patents to Microsoft, something strange happened: the latter became the owner of Netscape. Remember Netscape? The browser. From 1994. A steal!
It was only back in January that Firefox 10 was officially launched; it’s now March, so it must be time for Firefox 11. At this rate of acceleration, we’ll be at Firefox 100 by the year’s end!
Last week, it came out that Google has been bypassing privacy settings in Safari, and installing cookies to track the browsing habits of millions of users who didn’t know about the tracking. Now Google is being sued and could be on the hook for millions.
Fresh off the report that Google was bypassing the privacy settings of Safari users by installing cookies that could track browsing habits, Microsoft has discovered that Google has been doing the same thing on Internet Explorer. This is not good.
There’s all sorts of current applications that won’t work on ARM-based Windows 8 tablets when they emerge. Mozilla’s looking to sidestep that restriction, with plans for both traditional desktop and Metro versions of its browser application.
