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
Technorati Tags: Internet Explorer,Firefox
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Window Snyder, the Mozilla security chief warned yesterday, that the language pack for Firefox 2.0 is infected with Trojan horse.Most worse thing about this plugin is that, it is available on Mozilla addons website, from where Mozilla Firefox users download extensions, themes and useful stuff for their Firefox browser.Window Snyder explained that the Trojan horse was a result of a malicious code injection which could load remote content and drop the infections on the affected system.The Firefox plug-in has already been removed from the Mozilla Add-on page, but users who want to download the Vietnamese language pack have to wait a few days until a clean version of the file is re-published.
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Taking backup of Firefox profile is really a painful job if you try to it manually. It’s very easy also to by just locating the Firefox directory on your computer and copy that Firefox profile and take a backup and now you can use this Firefox profile to some other computer or you can can use it your own computer. But there is also one free utility available that can do all the backup and restore task for you. it’s MozBackup. MozBackup can also be used to take backup of Firefox,Thunderbird,SeaMonkey,Mozilla Suite and Netscape browsers backup.
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Firefox Extension Stylish allow you to load any style sheet to your web browser. These home made style sheets can be applied to some specific websites. These custom style sheets completely redesign the look and feel of the website.
There are a lot of styles are available here Global Styles. You will find some very good styles foe your favorite website’s including Gmail, Orkut, and YouTube. I like the Gmail Stylesheet.
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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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Tips | March 1st, 2008
Paypal said if you are using Safari (browser from Apple ) for Paypal website so please stop using that , because safari does not have the phishing filter. it’s better to use IE7 or IE8,Firefox or Opera.Unlike other web browsers Safari does not have the built in phishing filter for website,warms and spywares.Safari does not have any mechanism for security support only it has the SSL (Secure Socket Layer).
An emerging technology, EV certificates are already supported in Internet Explorer 7, and they’ve been used on PayPal’s Web site for more than a year now. When IE 7 visits PayPal, the browser’s address bar turns green — a sign to users that the site is legitimate. Upcoming versions of Firefox and Opera are expected to support the technology
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