Tag Archives: Internet Explorer
w3schools: Chrome Has Surpassed Ten Percent Share
Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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The web developer-focused w3schools releases browser statistics every month. Recently, they published their figures for January. Fueled by the movement of Chrome 4 into a stable version along with the increased media coverage of Chrome OS and Google’s competition with the other tech titans, Chrome has moved past the ten percent share mark, registering a 10.8% share which is up a solid point from December, at 9.8%.
Mind you, w3schools.com is not any sort of official standard for browser usage. However, the 9 million monthly users of the site are forward-thinking technologically minded people who are using the site to find the latest and greatest in terms of web development resources. With that being said, there is no doubt that w3schools caters more towards early adopters of technology, but the fact that Chrome browser is now in use for over ten percent of those looking for web development resources shows that some other browsers are going to begin to slowly get sqeezed out of their share of the market.
And to make sure that these are not the only statistics for this article, Netmarketshare is reporting that Chrome browser usage is at 5.22% in January, up from 4.63% in December. These stats are supposedly representative for the entire web, although there must be some give or take considering the web’s global audience. Regardless, you can read about their methodology for measuring stats here.
For January, thechromesource had 44.1% that used Firefox, 34.5% users with Chrome, 9% with Safari and 6.6% with Internet Explorer.
Know a Chrome Flaw? Google Will Pay You…
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 2 Comments
Interested in Chrome security? You might be if there’s some money involved.
The Chromium project from Google, which is the name for the open source group that develops the Chrome browser, is relatively new when compared to other browsers that have been around the block such as IE and Firefox. Because of this Google has decided to offer bounties for those who know of or are able to find vulnerabilities that exist in Chrome browser. This also includes Google released plugins that come with the browser such as Google Gears. Those who wish to report a bug for a reward and want to remain anonymous can do so and still collect their reward.
According to w3schools, Chrome already has about ten percent of the browser market since being released in September 2008. As this grows, there are potential security and privacy flaws that could be exposed, much like the heavily publicized problems that has plagued Internet Explorer over the years. By throwing more eyes onto Chrome and possible bugs it may have, Google will be able to have their browser, as well as future operating system, evolve much more quickly.
Finding a flaw will get you $500. Discovering a security issue that has critical significance will net $1337. I think you might know what that number stands for. But for now, this is only for browser-based flaws. It’s possible that this will be expanded to the OS project in the future, but right now the focus is the browser.
There is a FAQ at the Chromium blog. Plus, the first reward will be posted on the Chrome releases blog.
Happy hunting.
Google Search Gets Interactive With Google Gravity
Posted on 23. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 6 Comments
Ah, the old days of static web pages. I think that they are really starting to disappear, sliding into a slow extinction. Kind of like payphones. Or newspapers. Case in point would be Google Gravity:
Sure, you’re thinking it’s totally worthless. But but then again, maybe not. This just shows what you can do with some Javascript in a new generation of browsers. And in the future, HTML 5 will be the engine for this type of stuff. You can play with this yourself, search all you want. But don’t try using Internet Explorer, because when I surfed over to Google Gravity with IE7 I got this:
Although that shouldn’t happen in an IE7 window using Chrome Frame, if the developer were to have it enabled in his code.
Google: Let’s Piss Off Microsoft with Chrome Frame
Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 5 Comments
OK, so sometimes I’m behind the times, but I just discovered this little project Google has been working on called Chrome Frame. Basically it’s an add-in to Internet Explorer that allows it to run newer web technologies such as HTML5 if a developer puts in a line that triggers it within their code. This includes the Chrome browser’s V8 Javascript kit that allows for faster performance, support for newer CSS formats and offline storage functions that are starting to be seen in Google applications such as Gmail.
We all know that Internet Explorer has become a slow and cumbersome behemoth, and for those who are unable to install Chrome browser on a managed machine this is a simple fix for that as you can easily download a small executable and then run it. It would also be useful for developers who need to test different browser versions in one application as well. Chrome Frame works with IE 6, 7 and 8. Here is a video from Google:
Although released under the auspices of development, this kind of stuff must really irritate Microsoft and when this was first announced last September they issued a statement that using Chrome Frame may have security implications, but Google later released a patch that allayed those concerns.
Anything from the positive department for Microsoft? Looks like Bing is making headways in search. Must be all those ads on television. Too bad I make my own decisions.
How to Turn On Offline Gmail Access
Posted on 16. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 2 Comments
Last month, Google went from having offline Gmail access in beta to being released to all users. The feature was tested for about a year prior to this, and although offline features are expected to be implemented through HTML 5 in the future, the current technology is powered by the Google Gears plugin. It’s installed in the Chrome browser and can be downloaded as an add-in for Internet Explorer or Firefox.
To Turn on Offline Access in Gmail:
In the top-right corner click the “Settings” link .
Click the “Offline” tab.
Select “Enable Offline Mail for this computer.”
Click “Save Changes”. Gears will then ask if you trust the site, and go through an installation, which downloads mail onto your machine.
