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Chrome beats Firefox in Global Usage

seangw — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:20:24 +0000

According to statcounter, Chrome overtook Firefox globally for the first time. My traffic still has Firefox at 25%, Chrome at 22.6% and Safari at 28% for overall traffic (most likely due to the high number of iPhone visitors, 25% of seangw.com traffic is mobile). Good to hear folks around the world are abandoning Internet Explorer. [...]

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YouTube’s New Design

seangw — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:15:40 +0000

You haven’t seen YouTube’s new design yet? It’s not your fault, it’s hidden from the public. If you want to see YouTube’s new design, open up Google Chrome: Launch YouTube.com Make sure you’re logged in (most people are by default) Copy the following line: document.cookie=”VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=ST1Ti53r4fU”; On the YouTube window, hit Ctrl+Shift+J (Developer Tools) Put your [...]

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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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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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Chrome 12 Released: 3D CSS, Security and Privacy

seangw — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:44:37 +0000

A few days ago Google released Chrome 12. If you use Chrome, odds are you have it by now. If you don’t have chrome, download it, it’s the best browser out there. To take a peek at some of the new functionality in place, check out Shaun the Sheep. In the new browser we have: [...]

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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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Google Chrome 10 Released

seangw — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 16:55:54 +0000

If you’re running Chrome … do nothing. It’s probably already updated, or will be soon (you can also force the update if you want). Some highlights of the new browser: Faster (duh) Searchable / upgraded settings screen Password Sync Encrypted passwords Faster web apps (combination of running in backgrounds, and an upgraded JS engine) Happy [...]

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Flash Player 10.2: Stage Video, Multiple Display, Sub-pixel Text

seangw — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:36:36 +0000

Yesterday Adobe announced the release of their new version of the Flash Player, version 10.2. Included in the update: Stage Video – Full hardware acceleration to the complete video pipeline. Check out the Getting Started with stage video tutorial. Web developers need to make changes to take advantage of this. Custom native mouse cursors Multiple [...]

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Brower Market Share: Chrome at 10.7%, IE 6 at 12.03% – Companies upgrading from IE6

seangw — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:00:59 +0000

ConceivablyTech has done a good job summarizing the data from NetMarketShare. From The Third Double-Digit Browser: Chrome Blasts Past 10%: Google’s Chrome had another successful month and ended 2010 with 10.70% market share, according to Net Applications and almost 16% according to StatCounter. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer continued to lose market share on a fast pace [...]

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Google Chrome to drop H.264 Support in HTML5 video Tag

seangw — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:38:30 +0000

Starting in a few months, Google will be dropping H.264 support in Chromew. This is done to push support for the new WebM (VP8) codec. Just announced, and it means for those of us who implemented the HTML5 video tag, time to go back and make sure the video is available in WebM or Theora. [...]

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