Tag: INTERNET EXPLORER

The German government, Web developers, and even Microsoft itself have all pushed the Internet browsing public to ditch Internet Explorer 6. Now Google is getting in on the action and taking drastic (but long overdue) action -- ending support for the browser across its line of productivity tools. Now, to be fair, Google is ceasing official support for several older browsers, including past ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Under leader Hugo Chavez, Venezuela hasn't exactly developed a stellar reputation for promoting and protecting human rights. Despite that lack of concern for Venezuelans' civil liberties, Chavez is seeking to protect his nation's children from an apparent capitalist tool of the devil: the video game. Chavez (who has banned the sale ...

The German government has decided to hop on the blame-Microsoft bandwagon this week, and is urging citizens to use alternative browsers, instead of Internet Explorer. After the company admitted that security flaws in its Internet Explorer 6 browser were the point of entry for the attacks on Google in China, Germany decided to take the somewhat over-reactive step of warning users off of all ...

While Internet Explorer continues its rapid descent into obscurity, Chrome inched forward, passing Safari as the third most-used Web browser this past December. According to Net Applications, more users now use Chrome for everyday browsing than Safari -- 4.63 to 4.46 percent, to be exact -- an impressive development given Google launched its infant browser just 16 months ago. Chalk it up to ...

Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer usually places a sad, distant last behind more efficient browsers like Safari, Chrome, and even Opera in terms of performance, it has always led the pack when it comes to the all-important market share. Until recently, that is, when Mozilla's Firefox finally nudged IE out of the way and into second place. According to StatCounter, Firefox 3.5 now outranks ...

It's almost impossible to believe that it's been eight long years since Microsoft unleashed Internet Explorer 6 on the world and, according to Net Applications, it is still the most popular browser out there. Apparently, a full 23-percent of users are stumbling around the Interwebs with the creaky, toolbar aggregating, malware-inviting browser that came packaged by default with Windows XP. ...

With Chrome chugging along toward version 4.0 and Firefox 3.6 just around the corner, Microsoft is in danger of falling even further behind in the browser wars. The boys in Redmond released Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) earlier this year, and while it was an improvement over IE7, we were generally disappointed with its stability. Plus, it still was far behind its competitors in raw speed. Turns ...

The War of the Web Browsers mostly takes place on one battlefield: speed. And while Google's Chrome is the clear winner on that front, there are other skirmishes -- like those over add-ons and resource usage -- of which Firefox is the clear victor. Until now the only victories that Internet Explorer could claim were 'Largest Install Base' and 'Most Vulnerable to Hackers.' But tech blog AnandTech ...

It started out as the cause of a small group of disgruntled nerds. But now, the push to rid the world of out-of-date versions of Internet Explorer has blossomed into a full-blown campaign. According to CNN, a new site called 'IE 6 No More,' along with activity on sites like Twitter and Digg, has helped bring the idea to the masses. Developers of the site claim that Internet Explorer 6, which ...

It's time for a cyber celebration, folks. Mozilla's popular Firefox browser, which launched in 2002, reached the 1 billion download mark today, making the browser akin to McDonald's Big Mac in popularity. According to TechCrunch, Mozilla will mark the occasion by launching a new site, www.onebillionplusyou.com (going live on Monday), that will display photos and information about folks who love ...

Despite new leadership from a relatively tech-savvy president, some government offices still seem a little slow to adopt popular technology. While the State Department might have promoted and encouraged Iranian Twitter activity, the Department is nevertheless lagging behind in other Web areas. In a town hall meeting yesterday, a new member of the State Department, which uses Internet Explorer as ...

You know things are bad when Microsoft is trying to draw attention to its latest security flaw. A new vulnerability is affecting Internet Explorer users who are running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 (do the latter even exist anymore?), allowing hackers to take control of victims' PCs remotely. The risk of infection and hijacking is very serious since a user simply has to visit a Web site to ...

Somewhere in the land between 'uncomfortably funny' and 'trying too hard' sits Microsoft's new commercials promoting Internet Explorer 8. Choosing Dean Cain, the ex-football player who made his acting debut in 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,' to play a William Shatner-like straight man is an odd choice, especially given Apple's adorably nerdy spokesman Justin Long. But the ...

Last week, Microsoft officially unleashed Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) upon the world, and most of us gave a mild shrug. Despite our indifference, we decided to put the new browser through its paces. Truth be told, IE8 has a lot going for it -- in theory. New features like WebSlices (which drops down regularly updated parts of a site from the bookmarks toolbar) and Accelerators (which let you ...

Oh Microsoft, sometimes you're so unintentionally hilarious that we just can't handle it. Apparently the folks in Redmond are tired of watching Internet Explorer (IE) get beat up in the press and decided to release their own report showing that IE8 is the fastest Web browser out there, despite all other benchmarks putting it firmly behind every modern browser except IE7. In the words of Lee ...