Apparently Google’s Chrome became the number two browser in the UK during the month of July for the first time, according to StatCounter. The firm’s research arm StatCounter Global Stats reports that Chrome took 22.1% of the UK market, up from 3.9% in July 2009. In the same period Microsoft’s Internet Explorer fell significantly from 61% to 46% globally and Firefox dropped slightly from 27% to 22%.

Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Browser Market Share

“Chrome continues to make significant gains in the browser market going from under 4% two years ago to over 20% today,” commented Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “Despite falling market share Internet Explorer still leads in the browser war but the next few months will be interesting to watch with Chrome and Firefox almost neck and neck.”

Chrome is also performing particularly well in Ireland where it overtook Firefox in May to become the number two browser. In July it reached 27.7%, ahead of Firefox’s 24.2% but still behind IE at 39.9%.

Technorati Tags: Browsers, Chrome, Firefox, Google, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, StatCounter

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Old browsers have plagued the evolution of the web and cost web designers and developers hours in backwards comptibility work.  On top of that there’s the security threat.  Anyway, if you run a website or a blog, you may want to join the Push up the web campaign.

“Pushup is an effort to push the web forward by helping users upgrade their outdated browsers. Give your users a better web experience and make life easier for developers out there by installing Pushup on your domain.”

Technorati Tags: browser, Firefox, Internet Explorer, online security, Opera, push up the web, Safari

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I have been reading some interesting blog posts with suggested security measures for mobile devices, laptops and online.

1. Lessons I Learned When My Laptop Was Stolen – On http://lifehacker.com
2. How to Track and (Potentially) Recover Your Stolen Laptop or Android with Prey – On http://lifehacker.com
3. How To Protect Your Login Information From Firesheep – on http://techcrunch.com

The posts are really worth reading, and also the comments on them. In case you want to use this post as a bookmark for future reference, like I do, here is a list of the solutions mentioned in the posts above.

1. TrueCrypt – data encryption
2. Prey Project – track and (potentially) recover stolen laptop, Android or iPhone
3. Force-TLS Firefox addon – force selected websites to use HTTPS

Technorati Tags: Android, data encryption, Firefox, firesheep, force-tls, https, iPhone, laptop. mobile, prey, Security, stolen laptop, stolen phone, tracking

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Echofon has officially announced it is dropping support for Custom build Firefox, so it will no longer work with “minor” platforms. How dare you Echofon!?  This is such short sightedness.

Apparently the previous version (1.9.6.4) of the Echofon plugin to Firefox still works, but I would appreciate suggestions for a different Firefox plugin. I would be happy to ditch Echophon alltogether, it was a good product untill the developers killed it for me.

If you get the error -  Echofon does not support this platform or custom build Firefox. (Can’t get OAuth signer.) / Cc['@naan.net/twitterfox-sign;1'] is undefined (Fx version 3.6.8 / ABI x86-gcc3) – according to the Echofon developers you are using a minor platform, and that includes 64bit build on Mac and Windows..

Technorati Tags: Debian, echofon, Fedora, Firefox, Linux, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Windows 64bit

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Bringing Firefox‘s features, security, performance and ease-of-use to mobile phones.  Fennec is yet in it’s Beta 1 version, it has been built on the same technology as the world famous Mozilla Firefox and has many of the same features.

• Tabbed browsing
• One-click bookmarking
• Super easy navigation
• Add-on ons (Firefox style)
• touch-enabled interfaced optimized for the small screen

The interface is very intuitive, download the emulated version to run on your PC and check out this great browser.

Watch the video overview:

Fennec Beta 1 walkthrough from Madhava Enros on Vimeo.

Technorati Tags: browser, Fennec, Firefox, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Source

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Google Chrome and Safari are tied at the bottom of the list of a password security test run by CIS - Chapin Information Services.

Two years ago CIS discovered a flaw on Mozilla that could give “clever attackers” access to your saved passwords. A few days ago CIS ran a security test on all the major browsers and to their horror and surprise most of them did really badly, including Internet Explorer.

Among the problems are three in particular that, when combined,
allow password thieves to take passwords without the user’s knowledge.
They are:

1. The destination where passwords are sent is not checked.
2. The location where passwords are requested is not checked.
3. Invisible form elements can trigger password management.

You can test your own browser at the CIS website.

Technorati Tags: Browser Security, Chrome, CIS, Firefox

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A new vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer could allow remote code execution. There have been reports that several sites are infected with the malicious code to exploit IE users computers. Microsoft is investigating the problem and preparing an emergency software patch to resolve it. Microsoft said that the attack has been detected against IE 7 but versions 6 and 8 also could be vulnerable. Sophos has released further information about this threat.

Options for now are to switch to another browser until IE has been patched, some of your options are: Firefox, Chrome, Opera

Technorati Tags: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Security, Virus

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