If you take a look at the numbers regarding the browser market share over the past year, there are a few interesting observations:Firefox, Safari and Opera have neither gained nor lost any market share IE has gone down ~9.5% Chrome has gone up ~9.5%While IE is still clearly the leader by ~13% over Firefox, these trends are somewhat telling. I believe Chrome...

When you visit certain pages on the web that do not have a style defined for their text (i.e. no specified font), your browser uses a blanket font which is set in your preferences. By default this font is typically the somewhat unappealing Times New Roman. However, the default font can easily be changed: In Firefox 3.6:Go to Tools > Options. On the Content...

Something I have been keeping tabs on lately is CPU usage among the two browsers I use: Firefox 3.6 and IE 8 running on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. While you can find lots of information and benchmarks on the web regarding memory usage and Javascript performance, you see very little about CPU usage. One resource on the subject I found was this performance comparison...

Giving the 10% of you out there who use the Safari browser a bit of love, today Apple released Safari 5 for download. I am a Firefox user, so I was curious about the new features offered by Safari and a few of them are actually pretty interesting:Safari Reader – this is a pretty good idea as it brings the content you are reading to the forefront while...

Something I do quite a bit is email links to interesting articles I come across to people I think would find it interesting. While you can manually copy and paste the URL and paste it into an email, I use the built in browser function:Firefox: Right click on the page and select “Send Link”. Internet Explorer: From the Page menu, select “Send...

We all know that Apple is pretty, shall we say, protective about the Iphone. Remember when they denied Google Voice purely because it would help competition? Similarly, Apple has never let a competing browser to Safari onto the device. Opera, however, is calling them out. Opera has submitted Opera Mini to the Apple App Store, but they did it with style. They not...

By far, the most popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Firefox. While these browsers are perfectly suitable for everyday use, if you want to see how they stack up against other browsers then check out Wikipedia’s browser comparison page. This page includes just about every browser you can think of and compares the native functionality of each. This...

If you have done any web development, you are probably very aware of the ‘quirks’ different browsers have and ultimately have to try to make your site work with them as best you can. Now that Internet Explorer 8 has been released, a site you might find useful is this post titled “Site Compatibility and IE8“. While not a comprehensive...

Have you ever been reading a website which references something you would like more information on, but don’t want to have to navigate to another site? If so, just look it up directly in a pop-up window using Cleeki. With Cleeki your search experience can be as simple as one click on a keyword you would like to query. You leave the rest to Cleeki, which...

If you take advantage of Firefox’s ability to save passwords and prefill them on certain web pages, eventually you will have a bunch of dead or out of date entries. It is good idea to occasionally review and clean them out. Here is how (Firefox 3):Go to Tools > Options. Security tab > click Saved Passwords. Click Show Passwords. It is good to show...

A nifty little add-on which Internet Explorer users might want to take a look at is Snip IT. From the description on their web site: SnipIT can be used to e-mail the selected text in Internet Explorer using the user’s e-mail client of choice. The add-on currently supports Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail and default installed MailTo...

Something I have swapped over to recently and found to be a very welcome change is using a blank/empty page as my browser’s home page. By doing this, my browser initially loads much faster than before. This is beneficial because if I need to get to something quickly, I do not have to wait for the data on my home page to load before the browser is...

When it comes to browsers, you have many options (listing a few): Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera and now Chrome. While the browser you prefer is simply that, personal perference, it is interesting to read reviews of how well they perform when compared to each other. ExtremeTech recently ran an article which tests these browsers called ‘Which Web Browser is...

Primarily, I use Firefox as my browser of choice, but as everyone knows the use of Internet Explorer is sometimes inevitable. What I [personally] have found is the most unfriendly sites to non-IE browsers (outside of Windows Update) are online bill payment sites. In fact, when I ran Linux exclusively a while back, I had to pay some of my bills at work because...

As long as the Internet exists (as we know it at least), a browser is simply going to be a requirement. As you probably know, there are several major players in the browser market, each having their own “nuances”. Of course these nuances lead to myths and misconceptions as the infamous “I heard it does this” perpetuates itself across the...

Some of you out there may be aware of the feature in web browsers where you can increase/decrease the text size. Even though I champion Firefox as my primary web browser, I admit that Opera 9 and Internet Explorer 7 do resize things better for overall readability. See video below for the reasons...

The beta edition of IE 8 was released so I downloaded it and gave it a go. First I will state that this is a beta product and certain things don’t work correctly, so unless you’re a web designer/developer, stick with your current browser (be it IE 7, Firefox, Opera or whatever you currently use). The short list of things that don’t work...

Back in the days of olde (i.e. late 90s) web browsers were distinctively different in the way they worked as far as user commands were concerned. Today all of them act more or less identical to each other. I personally feel this is good because when going from one browser to the next there’s not too much of a learning curve, if any at all. My favorite...