As of March 2010, Google will not support older browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for its Google Docs and Google sites services. According to Google, they are stopping the support of older browser because old browsers cannot run many of the modern web application. Web is completely changes its all about web application not web pages or websites.
It think its a good move instead of supporting old web browsers companies should stop their application support for old browsers. These old browsers are also more vulnerable for security attacks. Recently a security flaw in Internet Explorer 6 is used by cyber criminals to steal data from Google Server.
Google encourage you to update your browsers as soon as possible. There are many choices:
YouTube is introducing an experimental version of HTML 5 supported video player on YouTube. HTML5 is a new web standard that is gaining popularity rapidly and adds many new features to your web experience. Most notably for YouTube users, HTML5 includes support for video and audio playback. This means that users with an HTML5 compatible browser, and support for the proper audio and video codec’s can watch a video without needing to download a browser plugin. HTML 5 supported video player does not support videos with ads and full screen support.
As of now HTML 5 supported video player work only with Google Chrome ,Apple Safari (version 4+) and Microsoft Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame installed. It won’t work in Firefox,Even though Firefox supports HTML <video> feature but it does not support H.264 Codec. Even in the browsers that do support it, the HTML5 player is a pale copy of the Flash-based one. A lot of features are missing and some things aren’t as smooth as you’d expect.
Kevin Carle, a software engineer at YouTube Wrote,
To try it out, go to the HTML5 page via TestTube or visit this page and join the experiment. This will enable HTML5 video for your browser, provided that it’s one of the browsers mentioned above and fits in with the parameters we already referenced. (If you’ve opted in to other experiments, you may not get the HTML5 player.) You can also enable Feather watch (visit http://www.youtube.com/feather_beta) along with HTML5 video for an even simpler, faster YouTube experience.
In June 2009 Adobe has announced a limited developer preview of BrowserLab. BrowserLab is online hosted service by Adobe that enable web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand. BrowserLab is a powerful solution for cross-browser compatibility testing, featuring multiple viewing and comparison tools, as well as customizable preferences. Since BrowserLab is an online service, it can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the web.
New Features
Save Locally: Save screenshots generated by BrowserLab in either 1-Up or 2-Up views. This lets you capture renderings of your web pages in different browsers, to save for easy reference or sharing with clients and colleagues. Added January 14, 2010
Additional browser support: Preview web pages in more browsers: Internet Explorer 8, Safari 4, Chrome 3.0 (XP) and Firefox 3.5 (XP and OS X). Each of these additional browsers can be added to existing Browser Sets.
Rulers and Guides: Pinpoint the exact location of any area within a screenshot. Rulers on the X and Y axes show you precise pixel dimensions, with optional guidelines for added accuracy.
Move and Pan: Move to any area of a screenshot by simply clicking and dragging your mouse, or using the arrow keys.
Onion Skin Registration: Tackle precise layout issues within specific areas of your designs, with custom registration of the screenshots in BrowserLab’s Onion Skin view.
Screenshot Delay: Pause the rendering of a screenshot by up to 10 seconds, so you can preview content that needs time to generate.
Supported Browsers and Operating Systems
Firefox 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 (Windows XP and Mac OS X) .
Internet Explorer 6.X, 7.X, and 8.X (Windows XP) .
Safari 3.X and 4.X (Mac OS X) .
Chrome 3.0 (Windows XP).
Viewing and Diagnostics Tools
Screenshots can be viewed in a single view, side by side view, or as an overlay view with variable transparency. Each viewing option features a zoom function. We’ve also added measurement tools like Rulers and Guides, custom Onion Skin Registration, as well as the ability to move quickly to specific areas of a screenshot. You can also save screenshots in 1-Up or 2-Up views.
Browser Sets
Browser Sets allow designers to customize, edit, and save a combination of browsers to test.
The BrowserLab free preview is available to a limited number of users, while we monitor its performance. Please visit our service status page for updates.
According to last quarters browser share report Microsoft Internet Explorer market share declined by .92% and it is only having 62.7% market share. After the launch of Google Chrome , market share of IE is keep declining and In the last quarter, Chrome, Safari and Opera all set new personal bests for browser market share with 4.63, 4.46 and 2.4 percent respectively. If we go with Net Applications projection Internet Explorer market could shrink below 50% by the end of this year.
NSS Labs results show that Microsoft internet Explorer RC1 able to catch 69% catch rate against Malware as compare to Apple Safari (24%) ,Mozilla Firefox v3.07(30%), Google Chrome v1.0.154916%), Opera v9.64(5%) and Microsoft IE7(4%). This data clearly show that Microsoft IE7 does not provide any protection against malware.
Apple is finally started working in terms of security in their products and they have launched a new version of their Safari web browser with Anti-Phishing protection. The Anti-Phishing protection comes as software update from Apple for existing users of Safari web browser. This new update fixes a number of security issues that are present in Apple’s Safari web browser including unexpected application shutdowns and public disclosure of personal information, and addressed various vulnerabilities such as arbitrary code execution and denial of service.
According to Apple
is recommended for all Safari users and features protection from fraudulent phishing websites and better identification of online businesses.
After looking to the latest update for Anti-Phishing protection in Apple’s Safari web browser there are a number of features are missing like users don’t have any control over the choosing the database of fraudulent websites. There is also not much control is there on Anti-Phishing protection, users can simply turn on the feature by clicking the turn Anti-Protection button.
Users running OS X can update their Safari web browser using the software update mechanism, Windows users can get this update by running Apple Software Update tool available. If you are not using Safari web browser you can download then
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
NSS Labs results show that Microsoft internet Explorer RC1 able to catch 69% catch rate against Malware as compare to Apple Safari (24%) ,Mozilla Firefox v3.07(30%), Google Chrome v1.0.154916%), Opera v9.64(5%) and Microsoft IE7(4%). This data clearly show that Microsoft IE7 does not provide any protection against malware. 
