Google’s Chrome browser has been chewing up market share on desktops and laptops for a while now, and now it’s going mobile. If you’ve got an Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) phone or tablet you can download it now. If you don’t — and that should be most of you — time to get jealous.
Web browser improvements seem to pop out at a pace barely detectable to the human eye, so periodically Tom’s Hardware will go through every desktop browser on Windows and OS X with a fine-toothed comb and tell you which one comes out on top. This time around, they like Firefox and Safari.
When the Kindle Fire arrived, the Amazon Silk web browser received much hype for its ability to use the cloud for processing and rendering power, thus making the web experience smoother on the $US200 device. But apparently it can run on more than just Amazon’s tablet.
At last! Microsoft is killing the last vestiges of that dreadful, obsolete program known as Internet Explorer 6. They are going to force the upgrade and that’s a good thing — the web needs to get rid of this crap.
Remember when you downloaded Firefox circa 2004 because Internet Explorer was inundating Windows XP with viruses? Those days have long since passed and according to a Google-funded study carried out by Accuvant, Firefox is now among the least secure web browsers. Naturally, Chrome is the best.
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case.
A lot of you read online using Google Chrome — which means a good percentage of you should be interested in the news that Chrome will soon have plug-and-play gamepad support added. It’ll work on any computer (or Chromebook) running the Chrome browser, and according to Google, will be a seamless experience.
You’re home for Christmas. You gorged on turkey, had too much to drink and watched enough sport to last you the month. Bored? Why not do your parents a favour and update their browser?
All the hype surrounding Amazon at the moment centres on the Kindle Fire. But behind the scenes, they’ve been developing one of the world’s most powerful super computers — and it powers the Fire’s browser, Silk.