Tag: IE

The browser ballot screen that Windows users in the EU have started to see since March, which was supposed to lessen the monopolistic stronghold that Internet Explorer has on browser market share, has proved to be quite useless. New data shows that the differences in browser use trends between the EU and the world from January to October are within the error margin. This is despite Opera's past ...

Google Chrome Frame, Google's plug-in for bringing HTML5 and the latest Web apps to IE 6, 7, and 8, has reached stable status and left beta. Chrome Frame lets developers of modern sites and Web apps support legacy browsers, with the plug-in handling the HTML5 rendering when a user's old browser -- OK, old version of IE -- can't get the job done. Chrome Frame is an alternative to more complex ...

Over at The Windows Club, a user has contributed a handy little utility, which takes care of some common problems that affect Internet Explorer. IE Restorator can reset Internet Explorer to its default settings, re-register both 32 and 64-bit version of IE, and perform Winsock resets and flush the DNS cache. It's also totally portable and makes an excellent addition to your flash drive or ...

Open With is a neat little Firefox add-on (from a developer with the interesting domain name DarkTrojan.net). Domain name notwithstanding, the add-on feels pretty solid (and has been tested by Mozilla). It adds a set of buttons to Firefox, which let you open the current page in any other browser that you've got installed. In terms of UI, it's very flexible; you can add entries to the View menu, ...

While Google Chrome has seen plenty of uptake from enthusiasts, developers, and end users at home, enterprise environments have always been a bit tougher to penetrate. Internet Explorer is still king of the hill when it comes to enterprise browsing -- and even Firefox has only recently begun to make serious inroads. One thing which might help is the addition of policy support to Chrome. With ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/24/4-way-html5-speed-test-firefox-3-7-faster-than-internet-explorer-opera-chrome'; Following on from last night's IE9 vs. Chrome 6 comparison, I've now pitched all four of the major Windows-based browsers against each other. On the same computer! At the same time! (God bless technology.) As you will see from the video, Chrome (even with ...

I think the video speaks for itself! digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/06/23/internet-explorer-9-vs-chrome-6-developer-video-speed-benchmark'; If you can't watch the video: IE9 is some orders of magnitude faster than Chrome when it comes to hardware-accelerated canvas rendering. In some other initial benchmarks, IE9 is about 30% slower than Chrome 6 in the SunSpider ...

Developing for the Web can get quite rough at times, especially when IE is involved. Even when you take IE out of the picture (which you can't really do), there are still myriad differences among browsers, particularly in the implementation of newer technologies such as CSS3 and HTML5. When can I use ... is invaluable for answering questions such as "Should I be using the new HTML5 video tag in ...

We're thoroughly impressed with the latest preview of IE9, even if we've only been playing with it for an hour or two! Because some people might not be able to install it in their current environment, I've demonstrated the three new speed tests that Microsoft has included with the new build. I've even included a little, easily-excitable commentary. If you've had a chance to play with the ...

If Internet Explorer can't beat Google Chrome on speed, security, or standards compliance, it appears as though they figured its Achilles Heel might be privacy. Earlier today, Microsoft's Peter LePage decided to attack Chrome because of its autocomplete feature -- a giant privacy risk, he claims. "As I start to type an address into the address bar, Fiddler [a debugging tool] shows that ...

Good afternoon! As I write this the sun is shining, the birds (and 'SEO specialists') are tweeting, and the sky is a brilliant and pure baby blue. It's spring, ladies and gentlemen, it's frickin' spring -- here in England, at least. My apologies if you live in Canada, or somewhere else barren and inhospitable; I'm sure spring will get to you eventually. A lot has been going on in the world of ...

Six of the twelve browsers chosen to be a part of the EU "Browser Choice Screen" petitioned the European Commission on Thursday, asking politely -- very politely -- that the Commissioners "consider any of the following suggestions which could be easily and quickly implemented and would allow users to exercise choice." "Ok, seriously? Already? WTF!", was my immediate reaction. Browserchoice.eu ...

It appears as though the Browser Ballot screen Microsoft recently pushed to EU residents via Windows update is having the desired effect -- at least if you're not Microsoft. Opera, who recently shined up version 10.50 of their browser, has seen downloads triple since the screen went live. In a post on ComputerWorld, Opera's Rolf Assev said that downloads have exceeded their expectations for a ...

Look at it up there, in the top left corner, just above your middle finger, all innocuous-looking... just gagging to be depressed... you could just give F1 a little tickle, no one would know... STOP! Don't do it! At least, not if you're on Windows 2000, XP or Server 2003. A few days ago a warning appeared on Microsoft's Security Response Center, in it they detailed an attack involving pop-up ...

Recently, Internet Explorer has taken a lot of heat. This time, however, it hasn't been coming from disgruntled web devs or tech-savvy folks like our readers. No, this round of 'ditch IE' requests came from the governments of Germany, France, and Australia. The result: their citizens ditching IE en masse. As you can see in the chart, nearly 300,000 Germans have downloaded Firefox in the ...