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Horizontal scrollbar prompts EU gripe from 6 browser makers
With Microsoft’s EU-appeasing browser ballot rolling out across Europe over the next three months , dissatisfaction is growing with its implementation. Last week flaws in its randomization emerged— a result of ineptitude rather than malice . Today, six web browsers have petitioned the EU to complain about the overall design of the browser ballot.
Continue reading »Firefox zooms past Internet Explorer 6
Firefox has at last put the bite on IE6. It’s now, “finally surpassed IE6, which is easily the most hated version of Microsoft’s browser,” says Ars Technica , going on: “Firefox’s steady gain continues, Safari remains in a nonthreatening third place, Chrome is happily carving out a small niche for itself, and poor Opera can’t seem to budge from fifth place.” IE’s decline “seems to be unceasing,” but, “the real shame is that the old versions have more share than the newer ones (we can only hope that as Windows 7 gains popularity, this trend will reverse),” it says, going on: “Still, given that IE6 had 23.30 percent of the market in October, this means that Firefox has now surpassed it.” In October, “all browsers except for IE and Opera showed positive growth,” says Ars. Safari dropped quite a bit, “while Chrome and Opera gained,” the story adds.
Continue reading »Opera Unite Struggles to Keep up With Its Ambitions
It’s been a month since browser maker Opera announced Opera Unite to much fanfare, and it’s about time for a reality check: Its users have been struggling to access the browser’s new server functions in recent days, with file-sharing services unavailable and personal web pages returning server errors. At fault is Unite’s proxy architecture, which was supposed to make networking your browser easier, but has been unreliable at best. Add to this the fact that personal Unite pages have been showing up on Google, and you start to wonder what Opera really meant when it claimed to “reinvent the web” with Unite — start from scratch with a shaky architecture and unresolved privacy issues, just like in the early ’90s?
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