Apple Safari is a hacker’s info harvesting dream

This apparently applies to Safari on Macs and no word yet if it applies to the Windows version of Apple's browser but the folks over at 9 to 5 Mac have posted an alarming notice to all ... continue

Chrome surpasses Safari in US popularity, now ranked third

Google's Chrome browser has passed Apple's Safari out into third place for US browsers, a milestone the newer browser option achieved in the UK last October. Chrome, which debuted in October 2008, has been steadily gaining on Mozilla's ... continue

Apple iPhone Browser Could Replace Google Default With Bing Search

Rumors have surfaced that Apple may be in talks with Microsoft in an attempt to make the Bing search engine the companies default search product on the iPhone, rather than the more popular Google. Mashable is reporting that ... continue

Safari’s market share passes 10%, and it deserves it

The release of the lightning fast Safari 4 web browser has pushed Apple's share of the browser market to above 10% for the first time. Reports Net Applications (via ITPro UK) Internet Explorer (IE) retained its dominant position last ... continue

The EU, Google, Mozilla and especially Opera are a bunch of asshats

I’ve been stewing over this bucketful of crap about the European Union wanting to give Microsoft the good old underhanded grab because Opera is whining about how it can’t get any market share away ... continue

Safari 4 Beta Released: The Need for Speed

Apple has upped the ante in the browser wars with the release of Safari 4 beta. The new version of Safari, built on top of Apple's open source Webkit code comes with a range of new features, but ... continue

Internet Explorer Loses More Ground While Other Browsers Grow

Microsoft's Internet Explorer has lost market share for its seventh straight month. New numbers released by Net Applications show IE dropping to 67.55 percent of the worldwide browser market. That's 0.6 percent less than it had one month ... continue

Glims Makes Safari a Whole Lot Better

I love using Safari on my Mac for the stability and speed, but I keep coming back to Firefox for the features. Safari plugin Glims though narrows the features gap. The completely free package (Mac only) adds the ... continue

Chrome Releases Third Beta — Competitors Excited?

Google has just released its third beta version of its Chrome browser -- and, by all accounts, its competitors may actually be thrilled. First, the new release: Chrome version 0.3.154.9 is expected to go out to users automatically ... continue

Chrome Starting to Lose Steam

While Google's Android-powered G1 phone is getting all the hype today, the company's previous launch is losing some of its shine. The number of users of Google's Chrome browser has taken a hit, dropping down to ... continue

Surprise: Chrome’s Users Coming From IE

In an unexpected effect, Google's Chrome browser appears to be grabbing users primarily from Internet Explorer -- and driving others toward Firefox, Safari, and Opera. As Chrome started building up a userbase last week, American tracking company Net ... continue

Why Mozilla should be afraid of Google Chrome

So after years of rumors and speculation, Google has made it official, the GBrowser, now known as Google Chrome will be released Tuesday for Windows, with Mac and Linux following. It's another bold move from a company that ... continue

Yahoo Acquires Mac-Based Search Software

Yahoo is ready to make searching simpler for Mac users. The company has just announced it's acquired Inquisitor, a plug-in for the Safari browser that puts some extra punch into the program. The software is capable of auto-completing queries ... continue