Tag Archive: browser
It has begun again, wait, I guess the browser battle never really ended. Presently Apple reports that its browser, Safari 4 has been installed more than 11 million times in less than 72 hours of its release. There many claims associated with the browser, especially when it boasts about loading pages 3 times faster than Firefox. Each of the browsers are trying their best to grab the title of being the both the fastest and efficient. I am no which one is going to grab the lead over time, but the most promising browser right now is definitely Google Chrome, it might not go past Firefox or the Internet Explorer, but it will definitely climb ranks faster to have a very prominent presence in the op browsers list. Oh and there is one more thing, reports state that more than half the Safari 4 downloads (close to 6 million) were of the Windows version.
Chrome, Google’s browser hasn’t really ticked off the way as many had anticipated and which is why Google is asking people to help it with its publicity. Google is asking people to create an icon for Chrome using their creativity. Each person can submit a video demonstrating the icon till 22′nd of July. Now many Google haters would call it a cheap marketing tactic, but seriously to me it sounds way better than Microsoft‘s $100 million ad campaign for Bing.
I find Microsoft quite a hypocrite, now that it has made Bing the default search engine on the Internet Explorer 6. Hypocrite because they have time and again stated that they will not monopolize on its reputation as being the leading provider of computing OS as well as leading the browser market. What’s even worse is that users cannot switch to another search engine have been useless and each time they do, an error message is displayed. While the IE6 may not be used by all to browse the web, but still almost 20% of Internet users make use of the browser. I am not sure why Microsoft would implement the idea of default is power, maybe it needs to juice in maximum visitors from its prime browser for the much promised search engine, Bing. Those of you still using IE6 can switch to better and more secure browsers like Chrome, Firefox, IE8, etc.
