The two most-cited browser tracking firms reported significantly different results for June on Sunday, with one claiming Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) easily maintained its No. 1 spot as the other said Chrome extended its lead over IE. ...
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European Union regulators will not force Microsoft to open its Windows RT operating system to rival browsers, the Brussels-based antitrust agency said Wednesday. At the same time, the European Competition Commission served Microsoft with ...
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Google's Chrome browser lost usage share for the fifth time in the last seven months, while Mozilla's Firefox gained share for the second consecutive month, a Web measurement company said Wednesday. Net Applications, which calculates ...
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Just days after a former employee blasted Mozilla for its frequent updates, the company on Tuesday shipped Firefox 14, patching 18 vulnerabilities and adding automatic encryption of searches passed to Google's search engine. The upgrade ...
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Many of the country's largest companies lashed out at Microsoft this week, claiming that its decision to turn on the "Do Not Track" privacy feature in Internet Explorer 10 would "harm consumers, hurt competition, and undermine American ...
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Firefox 14 accounted for nearly half of all copies of the open-source browser in use just a week after its launch, a sign that Mozilla's automatic update mechanism may be working as intended. The browser became the most-used edition much ...
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Mozilla today launched Firefox 15, boasting that users will see "drastic improvements in performance" because of new code that stops add-ons from leaking memory. The open-source developer also patched 31 vulnerabilities, 23 of them dubbed ...
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One in five Mac users has adopted OS X Mountain Lion, the upgrade launched five weeks ago, Web analytics company Net Applications said Saturday. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Windows 7 passed the 11-year-old Windows XP for the first time last ...
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Microsoft has released further information on a patch for the zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that affects versions IE6 to IE9. The Internet Explorer maker has made available a "fix-it" that uses its application compatibility ...
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Google this week announced it had shipped a stronger Flash Player sandbox for the OS X version of Chrome,making good on an August promise to ship a Mac browser better able to ward off exploits of the Adobe software. Chrome 23,which ...
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Microsoft says it is investigating reports of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6,7,8,and 9 as well as targeted attacks that have attempted to exploit the vulnerability. The zero-day flaw,which does not affect Explorer 10,was ...
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Microsoft is expected to comply with its obligation to offer browser choice in the European Union (EU). Microsoft admitted a failure to comply with anti-competition regulations in July 2012. Joaquin Almunia, vice-president of the ...
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The first smartphones to rely on Google's Chrome browser for Android will be Motorola Mobility's just-announced Droid Razr M, Droid Razr Maxx and Droid Razr HD, the company said Wednesday. The Droid Razr M, the only one of the trio that ...
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As Google touted Chrome's fourth launch anniversary on Tuesday,a pair of Web measurement firms continued to argue about whether the browser is still gaining ground or has stalled. According to California-based Net Applications,Chrome's ...
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When a former Mozilla employee knocked the company's accelerated release schedule as having "killed Firefox's reputation," he got more than he bargained for. Comments by Jono Xia in a July 5 post to his personal blog ...
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