The new browser wars on on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5, which has now been downloaded nearly 14 million times. Earlier in June, Apple released Safari 4. In March, Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer 8, and Google came out with a speedier beta of its Chrome browser.
Some early data is coming in showing relative market share and how fast people are upgrading. If you look at the chart above from Statcounter, it indicates that since March Internet Explorer has lost 11.4 percent market share to other browsers. That is the combined market share of IE8, IE7, and IE6. Certainly IE8 (the light blue line) has been growing strong since its release last March, capturing 16.7 percent of the market as of July 4.
Firefox mobile ovvero Fennec pronto o quasi
Secondo quanto riportato alla BBC da Jay Sullivan, capo del progetto Firefox mobile, entro la fine dell’anno verrà rilasciati una prima versione di Fennec, il Firefox mobile per Symbian in particolare per i Nokia N900. Seguiranno versioni per Android e Windows Mobile, per iPhone ci vorrà ancora un po’. Fennec sarà in grado di sincronizzarsi … Leggi tutto