NetMarketShare’s desktop Operating System Market Share metrics for December 2011 show the Mac OS slipping back another tenth of a point on the month, with Windows posting exactly the same share for two consecutive months. Linux made another proportionally significant gain, continuing its recent positive streak.

Opera Reader implements CSS3 extensions that allow content to be split into pages. These pages can be “turned” in a natural manner through gestures rather than point and click, with figures able to be floated to the top and bottom of pages, and the documents having a sense of themselves and their environment; “knowing” about documents above, below and on the sides. Learn how you can paginate common HTML files with just a few lines of CSS.

Many Internet users just use the default Web browser that came installed with their computer operating system. Others seem to spend a fair bit of time and mental effort deciding which alternative browser they’ll use instead. Personally, I can’t imagine limiting myself to just one, or even one primary web browser.

Opera’s Opera Next is a new, easy way to stay up to date with and check out Opera alpha and beta releases. Opera Next runs side by side with your main Opera stable final installation, which is untouched and will not be changed or otherwise affected. The latest is version 11.50b1 for Mac OS X, a test version of Opera’s next major release.

Opera 11.10′s marquee new feature is an enhanced Speed Dial page that displays larger previews of featured websites, and support for dynamically showing live content as sites are updated. Users can also now custom-configure the number of Speed Dial columns displayed and will be able to add or edit the name of site thumbnails. Speed Dial can now be zoomed and there’s a new dialog when adding/editing Speed Dials.

There was an interesting article over at TG Daily recently, titled, “Browser wars: When will the madness end?” As you can likely guess from the title, the author assumes that the cage match currently underway between Safari, Google’s Chrome, Firefox, and IE is a bad thing. But aren’t we taught that competition is a good thing? In this case, competition is good—vital, even, if the Internet is to keep growing.

Opera has just released version 9.5 of its operating system for Mac and PC. It’s a free download, weighing in at 15.6MB. Some of the features include… “QuickFind” options for customizing the browser Improved security with “Fraud Filter” and content blocking Tabs and Sessions The browser scores an 83/100 on the Acid3 test. You can more »

At last Monday’s WWDC keynote, Steve Jobs surprisingly released the Safari 3 beta to not only Mac users, but Windows users as well, in an attempt to increase the amount of Safari users in total on both platforms. In the presentation however, John Lily, of Mozilla, noticed that Steve basically indicated that he plans to more »