Internet Explorer 9 coming on March 14th
IE 9 will soon be available. Recent updates include hardware acceleration support for HTML 5, URL/Search similar to Chrome and more browsing space. Bookmarks and sites will also be able to be pinned to the taskbar. While most features were seen, Microsoft still promises other “secrets” in its browser.
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Internet Explorer 6 market share now under 15 percent
New figures from NetMarketShare show that Internet Explorer 6 browser has now fallen under 15 percent market share, globally, for the first time since it launched back in 2001. The browser has fell to 13.72 percent, with China being the leader in that. Half of Internet users in China still use the “legacy” browser.
The share has fallen to 7.62 percent outside of China. Current market share leader, Internet Explorer 8, has 32.79 percent of the browser market with Firefox 3.6 in second at 18.17 percent. IE 7 is current at 9.53 percent followed by Google Chrome, which is seeing strong growth with 8.02 percent. Other browsers, including Opera, Safari 5, IE 9 are occupying the remaining 16.94 percent.
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Google Chrome Adds PDF Reader
Google 8 will now have a pdf reader in it. You will not need to download the Acrobat reader to view pdf files anymore.
That means when people click a PDF link, the document will open directly in the browser.
800 improvements have been made in the new version including 12 security fixes.
Looking forward to using this already awesome browser.
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