We live in a topsy-turvy world. The very pillars of capitalism are shaking, shadowy wars grip the world, and now Apple has pulled out of Macworld Expo. So now, more than ever, it’s good to know that there are a handful of things on which we can always rely: Internet Explorer has a critical security flaw, and users are being advised to switch to another browser until it’s patched. Or, if they simply want to use the web without hating themselves and all life.

The BBC reports…

Mozilla is now testing support for multitouch gestures in the newest beta for Firefox 3.1 We’ve covered an experimental version of Firefox in the past that had multitouch support, but now Mozilla is building that support into regular Firefox.

The gestures are as follows…

Net Applications has release market share stats for the browser category updated as of November 2008, and they show some pretty interesting numbers. This data, which aggregates some 40,000 corporate and ecommerce websites, is reviewed by Quality Assurance. Are you ready for some numbers?

On top of the list, as usual, is Microsoft’s Internet Explorer with a 69.77% market share, which is down by almost 2% from last month. This 2% appears to have gone to both Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s very own Safari, as they each increased about 1%, coming in at 20.78% and 7.13% respectively. Head past the jump for more figures.

It seems every other pundit has lamented the lack of copy and paste functionality on the iPhone, but a month after its release, the iPhone, sans copy/paste, is selling by the millions. Given that the iPhone is designed for less strenuous tasks than the average desktop computer, it begs the question: does the iPhone even need to copy and paste?

The answer to that question may be no. Find out why after the break.

With the recent release of Firefox 3, Safari finally is seeing some serious competition in the browser space. Its reign as the fastest browser on the Mac seems to be over for the time being, and Firefox’s usage share continues to climb both on the Mac and on Windows.

Now, this isn’t to say I don’t like Safari; in fact, I use it as my everyday browser. It’s just that the competition is finally really heating up, and it’s about time Apple made some improvements to set Safari apart once again.

See what I think Safari should to to pull ahead of the competition again after the break.