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Google Chrome used by 10 Percent Internet Users

The web browser achieved a steady rise in 2010, Internet Explorer share falls

CNET has reported that Google’s Chrome web browser is now used by one out of every ten Internet users on the planet. According to statistics from Net Applications, Chrome rose from 9.3 percent to 10 percent in the last month. The first spot is still held by Internet Explorer, which has the benefit of being the default browser pre-installed in most Windows Operating Systems, which in turn dominates 90 percent of the OSes that run on computers in the world today.

But its market share has been falling, with users moving to either Chrome or Apple’s Safari (which rose from 5.6 to 5.9 percent) particularly of Internet Explorer 6, which fell from 13.7 to 13.1 percent in December. The average-performing IE7 also saw a drastic drop from 9.5 to 8.8 percent. Microsoft breathed new life into IE with their Internet Explorer 9 beta, which has seen a fair adoption increase from 0.4 percent in November to 0.5 percent in December.
Mozilla Firefox stayed the same at 22.8percent market-share. In that sense, Chrome has scaled up pretty well for a browser that’s just a little over two years old.

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coming soon mozilla’s firefox 4 beta 8

Firefox will soon release its browser Firefox 4 Beta 8 by the end of this month.

Mozilla’s latest version of Firefox 4 Beta 8 which will soon hit market will promise users faster speed for page loading and graphics. It also promises improved hardware acceleration for Windows XP, Vista, and 7 as well as some significant changes to the HTML 5 support. In addition to this it will feature graphics block list to ensure that Firefox doesn’t crash and will be able to accelerate the composition of layers with Open GL and Direct 3D.

The browser which will come out with more beta versions is currently being worked upon. There are about 66 bugs to fix of which 19 are critical, once done the Beta 8 will roll out by the end of this month. A significant change in the new browser will be its speed and its better interaction with heavy graphics pages.

According to Joe Drew of Mozilla “This release of Firefox will be faster on more web pages while at the same time being compatible with more computers.”

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Adobe To Update Its Security Features In Its Latest Version Of Reader

Adobe’s latest reader will contain a major security upgrade.

Adobe which is all set to launch the new version of its reader by the end of this year is all set to update the security features to protect it from “Attacks”.

Adobe Reader Protected Mode will reportedly use sandboxing technology to limit the potential damage from a hacking attack. Brad Arkin, senior director of product security and privacy at Adobe said that the sandbox will be on by default. If an exploit, which is a mechanism developed by an attacker in order to deliver malicious software to a computer – attacks the application, it won’t be able to get out of the sandbox,

“Even if a bad guy finds a flaw to attack they are stuck in the sandbox. They would need a second level do something interesting,” said Arkin.

The Sandbox technology is used by both Microsoft and Google in their applications, and Adobe worked with both of those companies in developing the system for Reader.

With Adobe coming under criticism for its security flaws for which it has announced patches to fix the problems, the sandbox technology might just be the solution they are looking for.

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Google Instant Unveiled In India

Google’s latest innovation “Instant” has now reached Indian shores.

Google has not wasted any second to bring its “Instant” to Indian users. The latest innovation of Google “Instant” claims that it can save two to five seconds of a user’s time. The service displays search results continuously as the user keys in the search parameters along with auto-complete predictions, and scroll-to-search functionality.

Google already offers a feature that suggested popular search queries as a user typed a word in the search box, but the new feature actually delivers a complete page of search results as a search term is being typed. In addition to this Google has extended Instant to Google Books, videos, blogs and updates, and has launched keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the search results.

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Microsoft Unveils Beta Version Of Explorer

The beta version of Microsoft’s Internet Explore 9 was launched today.

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is all set to compete with Google chrome, with the launch of its beta version. The new version of IE is not merely an updated version, but rather a major overhaul of the interface and back-end coding to improve usability, security, and speed.

Knowing pretty well that its competitors like chrome and firefox are a step ahead of them because of their speed, they have improved the download speed of their websites. In addition to offering support for HTML5 and CSS3 thanks to hardware acceleration the IE9 uses the PC’s graphics chip, built to render video and games as quickly and flawlessly as possible, to display website graphics much faster than running them through the computer’s main CPU chip.

The new, improved download manager of IE9 allows you to pause and continue downloads and has been redesigned to include reputation-based security which will eliminate security warning pop-up boxes for downloads of popular files and those from trusted vendors.IE9 will also includes a private-browsing mode, called InPrivate, that doesn’t store a users browser history, nor does it save any cookies of the sites a user visit’s while in private mode

The beta version of IE9 is now available in 33 languages worldwide for download. So, what are you waiting for? Go and check it out!!

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Google Searches Before You Type

Google will now suggest results even before you finish typing the search item

Search engine Google will now provide and display to users results from the moment they start typing.

The product, dubbed “Instant”, which will only be available for users logged into Google, will move instantly to a page of results that is updated as each letter is typed by users. According to Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search and user experience, a typical searcher spends nine seconds entering a query, and 15 seconds searching for answers. Google hopes to shave two to five seconds per search using Google Instant.

“Google Instant gets queries and gives you search results as you type and streams those results to your computer,” marrisa said while launching their new product

She also added ” We are predicting what query you are likely to make and giving you results for that. There is actually a psychic element to it,”

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