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  IN PICTURES: The big, bad browser quiz

• 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.

• 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.

• The lowdown on Google's Safari tracking cookies

  By Brad Reed | 18 February, 2012 07:37

  A grad student has caught Google with its hand in the cookies jar.

• 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.

• 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?

• Google to drop support of older browsers

  By Patrick Budmar | 06 June, 2011 11:44

  Starting from August 1, Google will only support the current and prior major releases of the Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari Web browsers.

• Amazon Cloud Player now works with iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

  By Daniel Ionescu | 09 May, 2011 07:19

  Amazon's Cloud Player music streaming service launched only with Android compatibility, but an update rolled out this weekend quietly introduced basic support for Apple's iOS. If you have an Amazon Cloud Drive account (5GB free, plus a free 20GB upgrade if you purchase an album via Amazon MP3), you can now stream music on iOS devices too.

• Lab Notes: The Inside Scoop on Browser Speed Testing

  By Nick Mediati | 03 August, 2010 10:28

  If you're a regular PCWorld reader, you may have noticed the Browser Blowout story we posted last week. In it, I looked at various aspects of the major Web browsers, including features, interface, security, and performance.

• 5 reasons to upgrade to Apple's Safari 5

  By Ryan Faas | 15 June, 2010 03:38

  Although it wasn't mentioned during Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote address Monday at WWDC, Apple launched an updated version of its Safari Web browser for Mac OS X 10.5.8 and 10.6.2 or higher, as well as Windows XP SP2 or higher, Vista, and Windows 7.

• Safari 5 in depth: Has it sped past Chrome?

  By Preston Gralla | 15 June, 2010 03:49

  The just-released Safari 5 ups the ante in the browser wars, with two major improvements: a performance boost to rival speed king Chrome, the highly useful Safari Reader, which makes it much easier to read multi-page Web articles.

• Google's Chrome tops Safari: Is Firefox next?

  By Ian Paul | 05 January, 2010 08:22

  Google Chrome hit a milestone over the weekend when it became the third-most popular browser after Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, according to metrics firm Net Applications. It controls just 4.63 percent of the browser market, but Chrome has made significant inroads against competing browsers, such as the former bronze medalist Apple Safari.

• Browser wars redux: Top 5 duke it out

  By Preston Gralla and Michael DeAgonia | 14 October, 2009 05:06

  For browser fans, this is the best of times.

• iPhone's Safari leads on sexy smarts

  By Daniel Ionescu | 15 September, 2009 00:18

  Most people would agree that Apple's mobile Safari browser is one of the iPhone's great strengths. While Steve Jobs leaned on the iPhone engineers to get the new device just right, on the other side of the house Apple's browser people also felt under pressure to do their part. Everyone at Apple knew that much of the iPhone's magic would lie in the way it accessed Web content.

• Web browser wars, Michael Jackson version

  By Todd R. Weiss | 07 July, 2009 02:39

  Like the fluid and swirling currents in the world's vast oceans, the global usage statistics for Web browsers are constantly on the move.

• How secure is Safari?

  By Roger A. Grimes | 31 January, 2009 01:37

  Apple's Safari, released for the Windows platform in June 2007, is the second newest browser on Windows, behind Google's Chrome. (Naturally, Apple's browser also runs on OS X, and on iPhone and iPod Touch devices in a mobile edition.) Safari leads the pack in anti-phishing filtering and pop-up blocking, but it also has many security weaknesses.