Pwn2Own sponsor bets researchers will hack Windows 7, Microsoft's browser, Apple's phone
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, not Apple's Safari, will be the first browser to fall in next week's Pwn2Own hacking challenge, the contest organizer said today.
Debuts extensions, bookmark sync in stable beta for Mac, fixes 7 flaws in Windows browser
Google has updated the Mac beta of its Chrome browser, adding the support for extensions that had previously been available only in a less stable "developer" build.
Since many enterprise users run multiple browsers, IE's use is under-reported
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is used much more often than most assume, a researcher has asserted.
Canonical signs revenue sharing deal
Ubuntu developer, Canonical, has signed an undisclosed deal with Yahoo! to make it the default search provider in its Lucid Lynx operating system, ousting Google in the process.
Dino Dai Zovi urges browser makers to follow Google's lead
All browser makers should take a page from Google's Chrome and isolate untrusted data from the rest of the operating system, a noted security researcher said today.
Look for Google’s lightweight, browser-based operating system to debut on mobile systems sometime in 2010.
A few weeks ago, Google unveiled what it's hoping will be the new standard in netbook operating systems: Chrome OS. Based on Linux, Chrome OS is a fast, low-overhead OS that boots directly into a Web browser to get you online with as little waiting as possible. We've been running an early version of Chrome OS on our test systems since Google released the code to the open-source community. Here's a peek at what you can expect to see when preinstalled systems debut for the 2010 holiday season.
Beta version of the browser is lacking some features and it suffers from a few hiccups. Still, it's a good start.
Google has finally released the beta version of its Chrome browser for Mac. As expected, the new browser is lacking some features that its Windows counterpart has, such as bookmark sync, a bookmark manager, and offline capability.
Google Chrome has been available for Windows for over a year. Now the Web browser beta is available for Mac OS X and Linux
The day has finally arrived. Google has met its self-imposed deadline and the beta version of its Chrome Web browser is now available for the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.
Product manager preps extension developers for public beta
Google will release a beta of its Chrome browser for the Mac in a matter of weeks, a company manager has said.
Chrome breaks 3% barrier, Firefox nears record, Safari stalls
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) again lost a big chunk of market share last month as Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome continued to chip away at the world's dominant browser, a Web metrics company said today.
Developer versions already available for download
Two weeks after its first birthday, Google Chrome developers have celebrated by releasing Mac and Linux versions of the Internet browser. The company revealed it's working on Google Chrome for Mac and Linux, which are making rapid progress on the developer channel.
Google's Chrome browser is now faster and has gained the ability for users to hide thumbnails on its New Tab page
Google's Chrome browser is now faster and has gained the ability for users to hide thumbnails on its New Tab page. The update, internally called Chrome 2, is being automatically rolled out to current users and is also available for download, according to Chrome team member Darin Fisher, writing in the Google corporate blog.
For the third consecutive month, Mozilla, Apple and Google all gained share at IE's expense.
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) again lost market share last month, although at a slower rate than the previous two-month stretch, but still ended at a new low of 67.6% as rivals continued to steal users, a Web metrics firm reported Sunday.
Traditionally, Europeans are much more likely than Americans to ditch IE and turn to an alternative.
Fewer than 60% of European Web users run Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a French-based metrics company reported yesterday, while more than 31% have switched to Mozilla's Firefox.
Chrome 0.3.154.9 will be automatically pushed to current users.
Google Wednesday released the third beta version of Chrome, the browser it introduced nearly two months ago, to fix a single security vulnerability and address several other problems.
