Microsoft doesn’t want its Internet Explorer users to be too far behind, so soon it will bring automatic updates to Internet Explorer 8 and 9. Starting next month in Australia and Brazil, and rolling out from there, Microsoft will enable automatic updates to Internet Explorer 8 and 9 on Windows XP, Vista, and 7. The more »

A company called AptiQuant, which bills itself as a psychometric consulting firm, said they conducted a study that revealed that Opera users are the most intelligent while IE users are well, stupid. (Firefox and Chrome users fall somewhere in the middle). Before you get insulted though, the study says only IE 6 users are dummies. more »

It’s good to see that the fine folks behind the Norway based web browser Opera have a little sense of humor. As today is television personality Oprah Winfrey’s final show, the Opera family decided to give a warm shot out to Winfrey as well as some of her confused fans who have accidentally contacted Opera more »

After being released just yesterday Firefox 4 has almost 2 percent of the browser market. To pu that into perspective, Internet Explorer 9 was launched a week before and holds less than 1 percent of the market according to Statcounter. As of this writing Mozilla’s latest version of Firefox has just over 9.5 million downloads more »

Opera has just announced the latest versions of two of its mobile browsers – Opera Mobile 11 and Opera Mobile Mini. In case you’re not aware, Opera Mobile 11 is the mobile browser meant for Android, Symbian and Meego smartphones while Opera Mini is the version for used specifically by smartphones with slower platform. As more »

Google has introduced a new extension for their Chrome browser. Called Chrome to Phone, it allows users of Android smartphones to sync up with Chrome using it and the Chrome to Phone Android app. With the touch of a button that’s added to the browser’s menu bar, they can send a webpage, YouTube video, maps, more »

Opera has released the latest version of its browser and with it has join forces with anti-virus software maker AVG. Starting with this new version, 10.60, the browser will now have AVG’ real-time Web threat data feed built in, which provides instant updates and greater security. Users who attempt to access a page known to more »

A crash proof Firefox has finally arrived! For those of you who haven’t converted over to the Chrome gods yet, there is something to smile about in the wonderful world of internet browsers. As for me, I’m all about the simplicity when it comes to web browsing. Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight plug-ins more »

Microsoft gets a lot of flack for not following web standards in Internet Explorer. In the past couple of years, MS has made an active move to become more standards compliant. If you downloaded the latest version of Firefox, you may have seen the HTML5 video tag in action. It is an easy way for more »

On Friday, Firefox officially surpassed its one billionth download – a very impressive feat for any application. To celebrate, Mozllia launched One Billion + You, a site dedicated to thanking the audience that brought it to the milestone. The site also points out the benefits of the web, from the fact that almost any information you want is immediately available, to the idea of collaboration between people who may never have met in real life before. There’s also examples of what one billion of something would be, like “a bowl big enough to fit one billion goldfish would be as big as a stadium.”