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Chrome beats IE Usage on Sundays

seangw — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:15:31 +0000

Google’s Chrome browser has been beating out IE usage on weekends since March 18. People are choosing Chrome for their home browser, while being forced to use IE at work during the week. Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share Due to Chrome’s automatic updates, more people are using Chrome 18 now, than any [...]

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Google Chrome 17 Released

seangw — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:40:56 +0000

You probably have it already, as it was released yesterday. That’s the nice thing about Chrome, no more old browser versions. Changes seem minimal: Pre-fetching and rendering of URLs as you type them Safer browser downloading (downloaded files are not only checked against bad files, but against a white list, with a likely warning) Minor [...]

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Google Chrome 15

seangw — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:48:21 +0000

Google released Google Chrome version 15. The only real change, is the addition of a New Tab page. At the bottom of your New Tab page you’ll see some “bars” (not sure what the official name is yet). By default it’s split into two options, “Most Visited” and “Apps”. You can drag apps / websites [...]

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Firefox: How People Use New Tabs

seangw — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:18:08 +0000

Over at Boriss’ Blog, an informative article was posted, How People Use New Tabs in Firefox: As the web evolves, so does the way people interact with the web. Firefox’s user experience and research teams have been eager to learn about our users’ browsing habits so that we can better design for our users. Lately, [...]

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Silk: Amazon’s new Kindle Browser

seangw — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:46:03 +0000

Most of us heard of the new Amazon tablet, the Kindle Fire being priced at $199. Did you developers happen to catch that new browser Jeff Bezos also introduced? The new Amazon browser, Silk. Yup, this is going to be a bitch to troubleshoot. It’s built off of the webkit engine, which is a plus. [...]

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The Pending Browser Hell – On IE Half Life

seangw — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:42:43 +0000

Paul Irish, wrote Browser Market Pollution: IE[x] is the new IE6, which details the complexities we have coming up for us as web developers. I’m glad to see someone fully thought this through. Browser half life is a significant issue for website accessibility. When was the last time someone asked you to get your site [...]

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Firefox 7 Released: 50% reduction in memory

seangw — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:00:48 +0000

Mozilla released Firefox 7 yesterday to the general public. Don’t think of Firefox 7 as a totally new browser, they are just adopting the Chrome release number system (much more frequent releases, more minor upgrades). The biggest gain in Firefox 7 is in that it can reduce memory usage by up to 50%, along with [...]

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Firefox 4 Released

seangw — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:33:54 +0000

The official release of Firefox 4 is today. Slightly late to join the pack with some of the features. Since the last major update of Firefox there have been 10 releases of Chrome. Some of the new features have already been released in other browsers: Bookmark sync (Chrome even has a more thorough sync feature) [...]

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Chrome – Holding Steady

seangw — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:23:15 +0000

I had posted earlier that I had setup Google’s new Chrome browser. Now it’s been at least a week that I’ve been using it and I wanted to post some comments. First of all, I don’t consider a “beta” browser. I know whenever I test out a new browser it feels like it’s almost unusable [...]

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Google Chrome!

seangw — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:25:30 +0000

Along with all the geek’s around the world, today I got a hands on impression of Google Chrome. First off — the rationale behind the browser is exactly what it should be. Clean, quick, and flexible. Using it quickly, I already want to start creating a web application to take advantage of it’s multi threading, javascript [...]

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