With such strong competition from Mozilla and Microsoft, the only thing Opera can do to stay competitive is to innovate.

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Another month, another set of data that shows the main browser usage trend is unchanged: though its lead remains large, Internet Explorer is still losing ground to all other browsers.

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The release of Google Chrome Frame, a new open source plugin that injects Chrome's renderer and JavaScript engine into Microsoft's browser, earlier this week had many web developers happily dancing long through the night.

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Regardless of how you're trying to navigate, the on-screen keyboard seems to require more finger accuracy than the fault-tolerant keyboard on the iPhone (probably because of the smaller screen). The back button is hard to hit--I kept selecting the favorites menu by mistake.

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Responding to widespread carping, Microsoft has made it less likely that Internet Explorer 8 will become the default browser against the user's wishes.

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Thousands of websites have been hit by fast-moving exploit code that installs a cocktail of nasty malware on visitors' computers by targeting a previously unknown vulnerability in some versions of Internet Explorer.

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The new browser wars are on. More than a decade after Microsoft killed off Netscape with Internet Explorer, competition in the browser market has never been stronger. Just last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5, which has now been downloaded nearly 14 million times.

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I know a girl who gets somewhat uptight when she's in the passenger seat of a car going any more than 70 mph. However, put her on some insane roller coaster, and she's just fine.

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Apple has been desperately trying to turn Safari into a mainstream browser player. Unfortunately, its numbers simply don't compare to Firefox.

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Firefox fans are up in arms after a recent Microsoft software update silently installed a Firefox extension that is difficult to remove.

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All in a simple graphic.

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Making Internet communications secure means shutting off ways for an unauthorized person to access secret information. This is easier said than done.

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The latest data shows that Microsoft's new browser lost market share over the weekend. More Articles

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It all began 20 years ago with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order. More Articles

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The AeroXperience weblog has uncovered a shocking change in the latest release candidate of Windows 7—Internet Explorer can be removed through the Windows Features dialog. Finally!

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Yesterday Microsoft made available Internet Explorer 8 RC1 (release candidate 1), which means that as far as Microsoft is concerned, IE8 is cooked and that barring anything major, this will become the final release. So, what's the new browser like?

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Microsoft has just pushed live its Release Candidate for Internet Explorer 8, the latest update to the world's most widely used web browser. You can download it here.

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A new digital plague has hit the Internet, infecting millions of personal and business computers in what seems to be the first step of a multistage attack.

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Microsoft Corp.'s Internet browser lost a notable number of users during the last half of 2008, according to recently published data, a trend that underscores the growing competition in a market long dominated by the software giant.

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Preliminary statistics from Net Application show that Internet Explorer is losing more ground in the internet browser battle. It's not really surprising as Firefox, Safari and Chrome are all gaining popularity.

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Last month, Microsoft's market share in the browser dropped below 70% for the first time in eight years, while Mozilla broke the 20% barrier for the first time in its history.

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Yahoo's new data retention policy is the most restrictive among major search engines in the United States and will most likely put pressure on rivals like Google and Microsoft to shorten the time they keep information about their users.

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Acting with record speed, Microsoft has issued a patch for the just-announced security flaw that impacts all recent versions of Internet Explorer, from version 5 to the latest betas of IE 8.

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Best Internet Browser for 2008 (Poll)

After viewing a discussion on IE security issues (like that's something new), I just was wondering what browsers everyone out there is using. Also, it gave me a chance to try making a poll and learning some new NV features.

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