| Browser news that took place in July 2010 |
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Web browser alternatives: 6 of the best |
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t3.com
| Jul 8 2010 7:26PM
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| Fed up of following the norm and sticking to the tried and tested big companies? Then be more adventurous, angle your mouse away from the conventional choices and towards six specialist alternatives to Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. |
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Google Rekindles Browser War |
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wsj.com
| NICK WINGFIELD And AMIR EFRATI
| Jul 8 2010 7:21PM
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| Several years ago the Firefox Web browser brought serious competition back to Web browsers, a market then overwhelmingly dominated by Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer. Now Google Inc. is shaking up the browser market again. |
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Mozilla stokes Firefox 4 with first beta build |
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theregister.co.uk
| Kelly Fiveash
| Jul 7 2010 8:53PM
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| Mozilla has released a first beta of Firefox 4, which comes loaded with lots of fresh features and a distinctive new look.
In January the open source browser maker nixed Firefox 3.7 and jumped instead to Firefox 4 in a move to reflect the number of changes it was making to the popular surfing tool. |
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7 Reasons to Use the Opera Web Browser on Linux |
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linuxplanet.com
| Eric Geier
| Jul 7 2010 6:47PM
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| Firefox is a great open source web browser for Linux and other OSes, but have you checked out Opera? |
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Apple's iPad passes Google Android in total browser usage share |
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appleinsider.com
| Slash Lane
| Jul 2 2010 9:55PM
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| More people are browsing the Web via an iPad than on an Android-powered device, according to new monthly browser usage data from one analytics firm. |
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Saying it out loud: IBM is moving to Firefox as its default browser |
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sutor.com
| Bob Sutor
| Jul 2 2010 9:33PM
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| I talk a lot about software in this blog but most of the discussion is at the personal level: I tried this, I experimented with that. I hardly ever talk about what I use for doing my IBM business and more rarely still do I talk about IBM's internal policies about software use. This entry is different, and gives you a bit of a view inside the company. |
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Savor the Moment, Microsoft, Your Browser Just Inched Upwards |
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maximumpc.com
| Paul Lilly
| Jul 2 2010 9:24PM
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| Perhaps inconceivable just a few short years ago, it now seems inevitable that Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser won't hold onto its market share lead forever, and could fall to Firefox within the next 24 months or so. We say this because IE has been trending backwards in market share numbers, at least up until now. |
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Firefox 4.0: Browser Tabs on Top or Bottom? |
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tomshardware.co.uk
| Marcus Yam
| Jul 2 2010 9:16PM
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| While Firefox 3.7 will bring with it some really cool hardware acceleration features, the next big, big build will be Firefox 4.0. Right now the designers are debating whether to keep the tabs on the bottom of the address bar, like it's done for Internet Explorer and Safari, or move tabs on top of the address bar, like Chrome and Opera do it. |
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