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  • Browser choice not coming to Asia

    Microsoft rivals have indicated that they will not be pushing for a similar action in the Asia-Pacific region.

    News items | March 11, 2010 4:53am PST

  • Google boosts Chrome privacy in new beta

    Google has improved privacy features and introduced automated translation of foreign-language web pages in a new version of its Chrome 4.1 beta browser for Windows.

    News items | March 2, 2010 10:25am PST

  • Opera for iPhone runs 'six times' faster than Safari

    Although Apple does not currently accept rival browsers onto the iPhone platform, Opera claims its browser runs 6 times faster than Apple's Safari over 3G networks.

    News items | February 16, 2010 10:44am PST

  • Mobile Firefox nears launch

    Mozilla is wrapping up work on its first version of Firefox for mobile phones, bringing the second most popular PC browser to an area where a rival project holds more influence.

    News items | December 9, 2009 6:58am PST

  • Chrome 4.0 gets beta release

    Google introduced the bookmark sync feature for the developer-preview version in August, and now it is also in the better-tested beta version, Chrome 4.0.223.16.

    News items | November 3, 2009 4:39am PST

  • Firefox's crossroads: Cutting-edge or mainstream?

    Mozilla has built the Firefox browser from a largely unsuccessful remnant of the Netscape era of the 1990s into the browser that nearly a quarter of people on the Web use. Now the challenges are...

    News items | October 21, 2009 9:23am PDT

  • Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest

    The developer of the market-leading browser has become more actively engaged in hashing out many details of a proposed revamp of the Web page standard.

    News items | August 10, 2009 4:56am PDT

  • Microsoft scraps Windows 7 E

    The plan calls for Microsoft to ship Windows 7 with Internet Explorer, but present a 'ballot screen' in which users in Europe can decide whether they want Internet Explorer or another browser.

    News items | August 3, 2009 4:47am PDT

  • Google plugs 3D hardware into Chrome

    By building its O3D plug-in into Chrome, Google is moving towards faster web apps in its browser - and later in its operating system.

    News items | July 23, 2009 11:27am PDT

  • Chrome security boosts Google OS plan

    The techniques Google uses to protect Chrome users from browser-based attacks have taken on new importance with the company's plan to make the software the centerpiece of a Netbook operating system.

    News items | July 22, 2009 1:18pm PDT

  • Inside Microsoft's radical, new Web browser

    Microsoft researchers are trying to make its next-gen browsers act more like a traffic cop, keeping things moving smoothly and ensuring that the computer's resources are fairly allocated.

    News items | July 7, 2009 4:57am PDT

  • With 3.5 launch, Firefox faces new challengers

    Mozilla's browser broke Microsoft IE's lock on the market. But the new Firefox 3.5 faces other serious alternative-browser ontenders.

    News items | June 30, 2009 10:00am PDT

  • Gallery: Opera Unite turns your PC into a server

    The idea behind Opera Unite is to take the client-server computing model and toss it into a browser. Your computer can share content with other PCs on the Web without servers.

  • EC responds to Microsoft's browser move

    The European Commission on Thursday responded with a mixed assessment of Microsoft's move to strip Internet Explorer out of European versions of Windows 7.

    News items | June 12, 2009 4:58am PDT

  • Bing muscles in on IE6 users

    Microsoft doesn't have an explanation yet as to why Bing is making itself the default search engine on IE6 but not IE7 or IE8.

    News items | June 3, 2009 4:59am PDT

  • Google releases a faster Chrome 2

    Google says Chrome 2 is not a major release but it does include some new features - such as the ability to remove embarrassing most-visited sites - and a boost in speed.

    News items | May 22, 2009 4:35am PDT

  • Browser war centers on once-obscure JavaScript

    After inconspicuously lurking within Web sites' code for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of Web browser wars.

    News items | March 20, 2009 8:58am PDT

  • Opera puts browsers in Turbo mode

    Browser maker Opera Software has released a test version of software called Opera Turbo, designed to use compression and the company's own servers to speed browsing over slow Internet connections.

    News items | March 17, 2009 5:46am PDT

  • Safari dominates browser benchmarks

    Proving itself a staggering 42 times faster at rendering JavaScript than IE 7, benchmarks confirm Apple's Safari 4 is the fastest browser on the planet.

    News items | February 25, 2009 6:00am PST

  • EU may force rival browsers on Windows

    The European Union is considering forcing Microsoft to distribute rival browsers as part of Windows, the software maker disclosed in a regulatory filing.

    News items | January 26, 2009 6:03am PST

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