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Google Chrome Marketshare Rise In November
More people are adopting Google Chrome as their main browser as the latest monthly survey by Net Applications shows.One in every eleven browsers used worldwide is a Chrome or Chrome based browser (either Chromium, Rockmelt or similar) and Chrome gained 0.78 per cent (or 10 per cent of its market share in November).
The other big winner was Apple’s Safari which was up 0.22 per cent last month. Both Opera and Firefox lost shares, albeit 0.15 points when lumped together.
This means that Internet Explorer was the one who lost the most shares in November. Currently standing at 58.26 per cent, IE8 now accounts for 32.75 per cent, nearly a third of the global browser market.
IE6 portion dropped to under 14 per cent while IE7 now commands the same market size as Chrome at 9.5 per cent. Both browsers lost 1.77 per cent altogether while IE8 gained 3.74 percent.
As for IE9, which is still in Beta, it occupies 0.38 per cent of the market, a 33 per cent rise on the previous month, one which was fuelled by a more frequent build release cycle.
Chrome is likely to surge past the 10 per cent mark by next month while its presence on mac and Linux continues to grow significantly.
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Google Chrome Tops ‘Dirty Dozen’ Apps List
Google’s Chrome web browser has topped the ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of most vulnerable apps released by security firm Bit9.The list is based on the data available with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s public National Vulnerability Database. According to the stats, Google’s Chrome web browser reported a total of 76 vulnerabilities this year between January and October. Bit9 found that Apple’s Safari web browser is the second most vulnerable product.
However, tech news site Network World reports that Marc Maiffret, a security expert with eEye Digital Security, has refuted the claims made by Bit9, saying that the measures used by the software vendor to determine the results are flawed.
In a blog post, Maiffret wrote: “To say that Google’s Chrome is the most vulnerable application is to lead IT folks to a conclusion that they should be using a browser other than Chrome and therefore leading them to the wrong conclusion.”
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Google Chrome Update Patches 12 Flaws
Google has released patches for 12 vulnerabilities found in its Chrome web browser.The patches include updates for Adobe’s Flash player application, addressing a serious flaw already being exploited by hackers. Although the bug is in Adobe Flash player, hackers specifically targeted the integrated Flash Player in Chrome using malicious PDF documents.
Adobe’s Reader application, which includes codes to pull Flash from a PDF file, is also flawed and is vulnerable to attacks.
According to tech news site PC Mag, Google reportedly paid $7,500 to eight researchers under the bug bounty scheme who were able to identify and report 11 of the 12 bugs.
Immediately after releasing the patch, Google blocked its bug tracking database to prevent outsiders from picking up details about the vulnerabilities.
The company usually unlocks the database after a number of weeks have passed since the patch shipment, giving users plenty of time to install the patches.
The newly patched version of Chrome browser 7.0.517.44 is currently available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame on the Stable channel.
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Google Chrome 9 Launched For Developers
Google has released the Chrome 9 web browser on its Chrome Developers Channel, complete with a number of updates.Announcing the release in a blog post, the company said that the Chrome 9.0.570.0 build was compatible with Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame.
The new Chrome 9 comes with some known issues, which include the inability to load Windows Media Player on Firefox, Google.com/wave delivers an error and the inability to type a character in the MySpace comments field, but also fixes several crashes reported on the previous build.
Now that the Chrome version 9 has been released to the developers, the launch of the Chrome 8 web browser could well be imminent.
Chrome has carved itself a decent sized niche in the browser market in record time and continues to eat away at the shares of rivals Firefox, IE and Safari.
According to tech news site TechTree, the company is planning to release the Chrome 9 web browser on 29 November.
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Google Chrome 7 Stable Version Released
Google has released the stable version of its Google Chrome 7 web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac.According to Google, the Chrome version 7.0.517.41 will come with hundreds of bug fixes, an updated HTML5 parser, and file API and directory upload via input tag, which have been included to enhance the developer side of the open source browser.
Jeff Chang, Product Manager for Google Chrome wrote on a blog post: “Not long ago, we mentioned that we’d be releasing a new stable version of Google Chrome approximately every six weeks to get bug fixes, improvements, and new features in the hands of our users quickly in the spirit of speedy innovation.”
However, some users have expressed their disappointment due to the absence of print preview feature, which, according to Google, is one of the top most requested feature for the platform.
Google’s Chrome web browser has been growing at a fast rate in the global web browser market, challenging the dominance of the more established Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers.
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Chrome 8 Brings Google Instant To The URL Bar
Google has released an early build version of its Chrome 8 web browser through its developers channel.According to Wired, the early build version comes with a Labs feature which brings Google Instant to the URL bar.
The feature can be activated by typing ‘about:labs’ on the URL bar and selecting the ‘Instant’ function.
However, being the early version of Chrome 8, there may be a possibility that the browser could have some unpatched bugs. Therefore, users are advised to use the browser for testing purposes only and not for regular use.
People wishing to test the new build version can download it by subscribing to the developer channel.
Some of the other Chrome 8 features that can be found on the test version include an early form of GPU acceleration for HTML5 Canvas elements and partial support for Google’s Cloud Printing solution.
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Google Chrome Browser Market Share Rises
Google’s Chrome web browser continued to rise in the browser market at the cost of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.Microsoft’s web browser slid below 60 per cent of the total market share, despite the launch of IE9.
According to data released by NetApplications, Google Chrome registered almost a half a per cent rise in the browser market share, finishing at 8 per cent, up from 7.5 per cent in August.
Internet Explorer, on the other hand, ended up with a market share of 59.65 per cent, down from 60.4 per cent in August.
Other Chrome rivals such as Mozilla Firefox and Opera registered no change in their market shares. Apple’s Safari web browser rose to 5.3 per cent.
Google’s Chrome web browser has shown optimistic growth in the market even since it was launched a year ago.
With Google releasing the Chrome 7 web browser, experts believe that Chrome’s rise to dominate the market will come more swiftly than anticipated.
However, Chrome has a long way to climb when it comes to gaining on rivals IE and Firefox.
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Google Chrome Browser Turns Two
Search engine giant Google marked the second anniversary of Chrome by releasing the sixth version of the popular web browser.
According to Google, the Chrome version 6.0.472.53 is significantly faster than previous versions and patches 14 security flaws that were reported by security researchers under Google’s vulnerability hunting program.
The company has reportedly paid $4,337 in cash rewards to developers who were responsible for discovering some of the 14 security flaws patched by Google, including six critical ones.
Google said that the new Chrome is a lot more stable and streamlined than its predecessors and is three times faster than the first beta version of the Chrome web browser.
Brian Rakowski, Chrome Product Manager, wrote on the Google Chrome Blog that “In August 2008, JavaScript was 10 times slower, HTML5 support wasn’t yet an essential feature in modern browsers, and the idea of a sandboxed, multi-process browser was only a research project.”
Google latest browser though is Chrome 7.0.513.0, otherwise known as the Canary Build, an alpha version only for testers and developers who don’t mind random crashing browsers.
You can download the latest version of Chrome here.
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Google Pulls Chrome Frame Out Of Beta
Google has now released its Chrome Frame as a stable version; this plug-in will allow a Microsoft browser into a Google-like browser.
Users will be automatically upgraded from the beta version – which was released three months ago – to the full stable version over the next few days.
The browser add-on brings newer technologies like HTML5 to older web browsers and has been fast-tracked out of beta faster than other Google services.
Users of IE8 and earlier as well as desktop platforms like Windows XP are the most likely to benefit from the new Chrome Frame add-on.
Google has already said that a number of services, like Google Docs, Youtube and Orkut will be supporting Chrome Frame but not Gmail and Google Calendar, at least for the time being.
Arguably, there have been criticisms, notably from Microsoft and Mozilla, which said that Chrome Frame might serve as a trojan horse for malware and malicious code by avoiding Internet Explorer’s security tools.
Two software engineers, Tomas Gunnarsson and Robert Shield, from Google, wrote in a post on Chromium’s blog that “A stable release is just the beginning for Google Chrome Frame. We’ve set aggressive goals for future releases: we’re working on making start-up speed even faster and removing the current requirement for administrator rights to install the plug-in. Expect more improvements and features in the near future, as we plan to release on the same schedule as Google Chrome.”
Arguably, the more Chrome Frame is adopted elsewhere, the more likely it will be used on Chrome services (and others). To some extent, Chrome Frame mimics the likes of Netcaptor or Maxthon. You can download Chrome Frame here.
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Google Announces $5 Registration Fee For Chrome Developers
Google has announced a $5 one-time registration fee for developers wanting to publish themes, add-ons and applications fro its Google Chrome browser and domain verification system.The company explained on the official Chromium Blog that the new measures were out in place to ensure that users are not subjected to malicious content on the Chrome platform.
The $5 registration fee and domain verification system will determine the authenticity of the developers
Google said that the registration fee will allow developers full access to the Google Chrome Web Store for uploading themes and add-ons designed for the browser.
In the near future, developers will be able to upload applications as well, Google explained.
The company also added that developers who are already registered with the Extensions gallery or have done so before 11am PST today, won’t have to pay the $5 fee.
The Domain Verification system on the other hand, will allow users to link their themes and apps directly to their website, thereby authenticating the content.
The company said: “This way, they can clearly associate their extension with their brand and website, which in turn will help users identify “official” extensions in the gallery.”
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