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• Google Chrome remixes worth trying out

  By Serdar Yegulalp | 25 January, 2012 22:15

  Once upon a time there was a browser named Firefox -- an open source project that many people happily picked up and spun off into their own versions with names like Iceweasel and Pale Moon. Now the same thing has happened with Google Chrome. Its open source incarnation, Chromium, has become the basis for a slew of spinoffs, remixes, and alternative versions.

• Google boosts garbage collection for Chrome browser

  By Paul Krill | 23 November, 2011 02:09

  Google is offering a new incremental garbage collector for its Chrome browser to "dramatically" improve the interactive performance of Web applications, the company said on Monday.

• 13 features that make each Web browser unique

  By Peter Wayner | 02 May, 2011 20:08

  Many cynical users assume Web browsers do little more than dutifully render HTML. The content is the most important part, they say, so it makes little difference which browser you use.

• Chrome tips users to dangerous Windows downloads

  By Gregg Keizer | 14 April, 2011 11:17

  Google on Tuesday said it will add malware download warnings to its Chrome browser.

• iOS 4.3 boosts first-gen iPad browser speed by 18 per cent

  By Galen Gruman | 10 March, 2011 23:13

  With all eyes on the iPad 2 that becomes available tomorrow at 5 p.m. in each time zone, Apple has released its iOS 4.3 update for the first-gen iPad, iPhone 3G S, non-Verizon Wireless iPhone 4, and recent iPod Touch models. InfoWorld.com ran the Futuremark Peacekeeper browser tests on a first-gen iPad with iOS 4.2 and with iOS 4.3 to see if Apple's claims of a turbocharged JavaScript engine were justified.

• HTML5 in the Web browser: HTML5 forms

  By Peter Wayner | 10 March, 2011 03:01

  The changes and enhancements to the form tags are some of the most extensive amendments to the HTML5 standard, offering a wide variety of options that once required add-on libraries and a fair amount of tweaking. All of the hard work that went into building self-checking widgets and the libraries that ensure the data is of the correct format is now being poured into the browser itself. The libraries won't be necessary -- in theory -- because the work will be done seamlessly by all browsers that follow the standard. In practice, we'll probably continue to use small libraries that smooth over slight inconsistencies.

• Google advances Native Client Web browser technology

  By Paul Krill | 19 February, 2011 12:42

  Google on Friday began offering a revamped SDK for its Native Client open source technology for running Web applications that execute native code inside a browser.

• Google Chrome Web Store opens

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 08 December, 2010 07:49

  Google opened its Web application store for Chrome browser users on Tuesday, offering highly interactive, graphically rich applications from a variety of sources, including National Public Radio, Amazon.com, Electronic Arts and Sports Illustrated.

• Internet Explorer 9: A visual tour

  By Nick Mediati | 17 September, 2010 11:28

  IE 9's main browser window takes minimalism to a new level.

• Which Web browser is best?

  By Nick Mediati | 12 August, 2010 15:58

  Of all the software on your PC, the Web browser may be the most important tool you use each day--but you may not give it much thought.

• First look: Firefox 4 Beta 1 shines on HTML5

  By Peter Wayner | 09 July, 2010 05:22

  While it's impossible to sum up the thousands of enhancements and bug fixes both big and small, the Firefox 4 beta version brings the browser that much closer to taking over everything on the desktop. There are fewer reasons for anyone to interact with an extra plug-in or the operating system. Remember when people cared about whether a machine was Windows or Mac or a Commodore 64? Remember when software needed to be written in native code? Those days are fading away quickly as the browser is more able than ever before to deliver most of the content we might want.

• Your Browser in Five Years

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 18 June, 2010 00:18

  What will your Web browser look like in 2015? Five years doesn't always bring dramatic change to some technologies--today's desktop PC, for instance, isn't that different from its 2005 predecessor--but browsers are undergoing major changes that will alter our day-to-day computing lives.

• 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 Chrome 5 Beta: The top five features

  By Ian Paul | 06 May, 2010 02:39

  Google recently launched the beta version of Google Chrome 5, the next iteration of the search giant's Web browser. New features include HTML 5 specifications like Geolocation and file drag-and-drop; expanded cloud sync capabilities; Flash integration; and JavaScript engine speed boosts.

• 5 reasons why Google Chrome will crush IE In browser war

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 05 May, 2010 06:43

  Google's Chrome browser is shining brightly, and it's not hard to see why. First, the stats: According to the latest NetApplications figures, Chrome now has 6.7 percent of the browser market--a stunning rise from zero prior to 2009. Competing browsers are either treading water or, as in the case of Microsoft Internet Explorer, in precipitous freefall.