Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is now finally ready for download. Among the news is a more minimalist interface, and support for hardware acceleration to make the browser faster than its predecessor. The navigation controls in IE9 has been simplified. The back button is bigger, the address bar and search box ... Continue Reading

A recent post on Mozilla's developer mailing list suggests that Firefox 4 is nearly ready for release, and that the company plans to release the browser some time in February. Damon Sicore, Mozilla's senior director of platform engineering, wrote the following on Tuesday: Team, We've worked tremendously hard on Firefox 4, and it's ... Continue Reading

Microsoft's Internet Explorer has been forced to hand over first place to the competitor from Mozilla. For the first time Firefox is now the most used browser in Europe. According to recent figures from Statcounter, Firefox is now used by 38.1 percent of European users. The number of Internet Explorer users ... Continue Reading

According to the analyst company, Net Applications, 2010 was a very good year for Google Chrome. In December, the browser was used by 9,98 percent of the world's Internet users. That's more than twice as many users compared to December 2009 when Chrome only had 4.63 percent of the market. The ... Continue Reading

Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 is now available for download, and includes an updated search engine that is said to be both faster and smarter than before. The software has also been linked up with the firewall in Windows which makes it easier to activate it. The new version includes the following ... Continue Reading

The security company Bit9, which has various U.S. authorities on their customer list, is now ready with this year's "Dirty Dozen" list. It summarized the public information from the National Institute of Standards and Technology about how many weaknesses that have been reported in different applications, which also has required ... Continue Reading

Today it is 15 years since the first version of Internet Explorer was released, and a lot has happened since then. In 1995, on August 16, Microsoft released its first browser, Internet Explorer 1.0. Internet Explorer was actually a redesigned version of a previous browsers known as Spyglass Mosaic, which was ... Continue Reading

Do you use Windows and Internet Explorer as the default browser? Then it's time to make a choice. In March Microsoft releases an update that allows the user to select the browser used as default on the computer. The update is now being tested internally at Microsoft. The ... Continue Reading

German authorities believes Microsoft's browsers can be dangerous to use. The German federal office for IT security, BSI, advise users of Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 to use another browser until Microsoft has come up with a security fix that eliminates the vulnerability that, among other ... Continue Reading

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Firefox 3.5 is now the most popular browser worldwide, edging past Internet Explorer 7, according to analytics ... Continue Reading

  Rumor has it Sony's in talks with Mozilla about porting Firefox over to the PS3. (Credit: Gizmodo) We've been hoping for a while that Sony would replace the PS3's mediocre built-in Web browser with something more robust, so it's nice to hear that Sony might be in talks with Mozilla to port ... Continue Reading