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• Analysis: Microsoft - Too old and too big to survive?

  By Mark Gibbs | 22 May, 2012 03:44

  What browser do you prefer? According to w3schools.com, which tracks browser usage of people interested in Web technologies and hence more likely to try alternative tools, as of April this year, 38.3 per cent of us preferred Google's Chrome, 35.8 per cent went with Mozilla's Firefox, and 18.3 per cent were still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (Apple's Safari and Opera were trailing way behind). Over the last year IE and Firefox have seen their shares decrease and only Chrome has gained share.

• Windows 8 update: Firefox, Chrome cry foul over Windows 8 ARM

  By Tim Greene | 12 May, 2012 07:26

  Microsoft is taking heat from browser competitors Firefox and Chrome for blocking them out of planned Windows 8 devices that will be based on ARM processors.

• Google Chrome share suffers with tweak of browser use calculation

  By Ann Bednarz | 02 March, 2012 06:44

  A change in the way browser usage is calculated led to a decline in web browser market share for Google Chrome, which experienced its second market share slip this year after growing steadily throughout 2011.

• Lapdock: From avant-garde to awful

  By Galen Gruman | 28 February, 2012 22:11

  What a difference a year makes. A year ago, I was intrigued by Motorola Mobility's Lapdock, a laptop without a brain into which you plugged a Motorola Android smartphone to run it on a full-size screen, with full-size keyboard, trackpad, SD card slot, and USB and HDMI ports for access to USB peripherals and mirrored screen display to a TV or monitor. A year ago, I saw the Lapdock as a wonderful innovation that presaged an era in which a smartphone is your main -- and perhaps only -- computing device, plugging into resources when needed to scale up to a desktop PC.

• Mozilla's open Web app store will launch next week

  By Katherine Noyes | 23 February, 2012 06:32

  Earlier this month Mozilla laid out a roadmap for its Firefox browser over the course of 2012, and on Wednesday it made good on one key piece of those plans.

• In Pictures: Firefox Faceoff - Nightly vs. Pale Moon vs. Waterfox

  By Howard Wen | 14 February, 2012 08:52

  Three unofficial Firefox variants take advantage of 64-bit processors and 64-bit version of Windows 7.

• Five tips to make your Facebook Timeline amazing

  By Ian Paul | 10 February, 2012 01:59

  Facebook Timeline currently is rolling out to all users worldwide, and--whether you like it or not--the new default profile layout will be hitting your Facebook account in the coming weeks.

• Chrome 15 Beats Out IE8 As World's Most Popular Browser

  By Ian Paul | 16 December, 2011 01:41

  Google Chrome 15 is the most popular web browser in the world overtaking Internet Explorer 8, according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Chrome 15 just barely beat out its Microsoft rival for the first time between November 21 and 27 with 23.63 percent of the global browser market share compared to IE8's 23.5 percent. Mozilla's Firefox 8 trailed behind at a distant third with 12.12 percent of worldwide usage during the same time period.

• yARN: Browser woes - what to use on a Mac?

  By Stephen Withers | 07 October, 2011 16:12

  Choosing a browser to use on a Mac used to be simple, but it’s not any more.

• Firefox 7 seekers warned to beware of bogus website

  By John P. Mello, Jr. | 29 September, 2011 05:20

  If you're using a search engine today to find a download of Firefox 7, be careful about the results you click on. That's because a dubious website called Firefox7.org appears high up in those results.

• Email This! Firefox Add-on

  By Preston Gralla | 29 September, 2011 07:38

  Nifty, free Firefox add-on Email this! is great for anyone who wants to share Web page URLs with others via email software. When you're on a Web page whose URL you want to share with someone, click a button, and the add-in launches your default email client--whether it's a desktop mail client, such as Microsoft Outlook, or Web-based one, such as Gmail--creates a new mail message, and inserts the URL into the body of the message, and the title of the page into the subject line. At that point all you need to do is fill in the recipient's address, type in any message you want, and send off your email.

• Seven good reasons to upgrade to Firefox 7

  By Katherine Noyes | 28 September, 2011 03:45

  Six weeks to the day after the official release of Firefox 6, Mozilla on Tuesday rolled out Firefox 7, the next version of its popular Web browser for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android users.

• IN PICTURES: The big, bad browser quiz

  By Tim Greene | 02 September, 2011 11:42

  Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari -- you know the names of these Web browsers, but do you really know them?

• 10 Social Networking Add-Ons for Firefox

  By Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | 31 August, 2011 23:52

  Move over, RockMelt. You don't need a dedicated social networking browser to stay überconnected. Here are 10 Firefox add-ons (all compatible with the latest version of Firefox) that will turn your browser into a social butterfly.

• Tips and tricks for protecting Android devices

  By Eric Geier | 29 August, 2011 13:59

  Android doesn't rival BlackBerry when it comes to security and enterprise support. But Android devices can still be reasonably secure. Here are some tips to help you protect your investment, privacy and data.