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Internet Explorer Global Usage Increases In November 2011

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According to StatCounter and its global statistics service Internet Explorer’s steady drop in usage on a world wide basis stopped in November 2011 with a small increase from 40.18% in October 2011 to 40.63% for November 2011. There has not been any new releases of IE in the last month or two . . .

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Do Not Track: Other Browsers Follow Internet Explorer’s Lead

Story Updated at 7:20 PM on 14 February 2011

User privacy continues to draw a lot of attention and the latest effort to secure your information is now coming to some of the most popular web browsers.

This new feature is called Do Not Track and gives you the option to allow . . .

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Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Available

The final development stage has been reached with Internet Explorer 9 and earlier today Microsoft announced the availability of the IE9 Release Candidate for immediate download.

I now have it running on our systems here and it is quite stable compared to the beta which gave us some troubles.  I must say . . .

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What If Web Browsers Were Celebrities?

Funny how accurate some of these are – enjoy.

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Related Posts European Web Browser Ballot Screen Do Not Track: Other Browsers Follow Internet Explorer’s Lead Internet Explorer 9 Beta Continues Frantic Download Pace Internet Explorer Global Usage Increases . . .

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Apple Makes Safari Updates Available

Apple has issued an update to Safari that affects Safari 4 (Mac OS X 10.6), Safari 5 (Windows), and Safari 5 (Mac OS X 10.6).  This security update addresses 27 issues and will bring your versions up to 5.0.3 and 4.1.3.

Here is a summary of those issues:

Description: An integer overflow . . .

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New Firefox Beta Available for Testing

As Microsoft continues work on Internet Explorer 9, the other big browser players are starting work on beta versions as well.

Mozilla has recently released their 4.0b1 for Windows and makes the 7.7MB download available for all to try out.

Of course as with any beta software there are caveats and warnings . . .

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