A new study released by Net Applications shows that Microsoft Internet Explorer loosing it’s market shares. Last year internet Explorer has approximately 79% browser market share and after one year it only has 73% of browser market share. Mozilla’s Firefox is Internet Explorer’s main competitor. The web browser now holds 19 percent of the market, and is rapidly expanding the number of people that are using it. Over the last year, Firefox’s market share raised more than 4 percent, from the 14.65 percent it owned last summer. The browser’s latest version acquired 1 percent of the global market during the first day of its release.
The bad news for Mozilla is that the main people who downloaded Firefox 3 where users upgrading from Firefox 2. Even though the company’s latest version of the browser has managed to get about 4 percent of the web browser market, only less than 1 percent have been people that previously used other companies’ products.
Apple also hit the jackpot with Safari, increasing the number of people that use it from 4.71 percent last year, to 6.31 as of this month. The reason for this seems to be the increased popularity of the company’s products, and the fact that each Apple computer comes with Safari
Browser Market Share July 2007
Browser Market Share June 2008
Source : Market Share and efluxmedia
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We use anti-virus software to to check computer for virus and for other malicious things. Now computer users can also check their browser security by using these two free online services.
The Scanit Browser Security Test page
The Verisign Browser Check page
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Internet Explore and Delicious users now start using a Add-on for Delicious. The add-on was released in beta last month, but is now apparently finalized. This New Add-on makes a tight integration with Internet Explorer making it easy to search, sort, and view your bookmarks.. It automatically syncs throughout the day with your del.icio.us account and makes it easy to keep your bookmarks at your fingertips on any computer you use.
After installation is done Internet Explore users have to restart the browser.
Features in Delicious Add-on for Internet Explorer
Toolbar
With the new toolbar you can view bookmarks and tags for quick and easy access.
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IE8 has one very good feature that is WebSlices. Using WebSlices users can subscribe to a portion of webpage. WebSlice is just work as RSS Feeds works, where user get can subscribe and get updates without going to visit individual WebPages.
IE8 Beta 1 allows users to discover and add WebSlices to their Favorite Bar. Just below the address a dedicated row is also there, that give users to easy access to their WebSlices. WebSlices detects changes and notifies users for changes and users can directly preview these updates from Favorites Bar or directly go to the website for more information.
At the end of this post I have included one video for IE8 WebSlices.
How to use IE8 WebSlice?
There are four aspects of IE8 WebSlice user interface.
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Web browsers are become common avenue for hacker to deliver malware and start attack on any computer. Running Internet Explorer in protected mode provides an extra level of security and data protection for windows users. Internet Explorer protected mode, no one can modify or change system files or settings without the permission of user.Protected Mode requires the user to confirm any activity that tries to put something on your machine or start another program. By ensuring the user consents to these kinds of actions, the likelihood of automated and/or unwanted software installation is reduced. This feature also makes you aware of what a website is trying to do, giving you a chance to stop it and take time to double check the trustworthiness of the website.
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Backup Your Favorites: Make a backup of your favorite websites. Use import/Export Feature of Internet Explorer to Import or export your favorite. To import or Export favorites go to file menu and choose import/ export option. You can export your favorites to a HTML file and then this exported HTML file can be imported to any other computer.
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In the starting of march Microsoft releases it’s new version of Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 8 Beta comes with several new security improvements.Some of the major improvements includes how Internet Explorer handles the ActiveX Add-ons. This is why IE8 Beta 1 features such improvements as Per-User (Non-Admin) ActiveX, ActiveX Opt-In and Per-Site ActiveX. ActiveX is one of the most common avenues for web-based attacks.
Per user ActiveX (Non-Admin): Running IE8 in Windows Vista, a standard user may install ActiveX controls in their own user profile without requiring administrative privileges. This improvement makes it easier for an organization to realize the full benefit of User Account Control by enabling standard users to install ActiveX controls used in their day-to-day browsing.
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On April 17 hundreds of thousands domains from USA and from UK are infected with the SQL injection as well as IFrame injection attacks. Including some of the .gov domains also. Many of these websites are serving the malicious web pages using the JavaScript and IFrame. These web pages tried eight different ways to hijack the end user computer and trying to install some malicious software on the end user computer. SQL injection and IFrame attacks are mainly ended up redirecting users to malicious webpages.
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Over the 1.9 millions votes and from the 300 finalists webware releases the list of Top 100 web applications for the year 2008. These 300 finalists are selected (by Webware editors) from a pool of over 5000 qualifying nominees. Top 100 web applications are selected by the voting of more then 1.9 Millions votes. Webware selected the top 100 web applications in 10 categories including Audio(Amazon MP3), Browsing and Tools (Firefox), Commerce and events(Amazon.com),Communication(AOL Instant Messenger),Productivity (30 Boxes), Publishing and Photography (Apple’s .Mac service), Search and Reference (Answers.com),Social(Bebo),Utility and Security (Amazon Simple Storage Service) and video(Amazon Unbox).
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According to the Symantec Corporation Mozilla’s Internet web browser Firefox[updated] has the highest number of security holes in the year 2007. There are 122 security holes are found in the year 2007. Its rival Microsoft Internet Explorer has only 57 security holes. One reason behind the more security holes in Firefox[Updated] is its popularity over the Internet explorer.
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