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Google Chrome’s the pirate now : Ready to raid IE and Firefox

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It won’t be right to call Google just “lucky”, because wherever they step in they rule the market. This is functional with the browsers too, and now Google Chrome has a market share 6.73%. It’s not a huge number but the dazzling part stays that Chrome is the youngest browser of all and it’s also ahead of Safari, Apple’s Native browser for Mac’s with 3% more.

The adoption rate has been rapid, in about 18 months they had some millions of users. Thanks to Google and it’s delicious marketing campaigns and also, the product itself. Chrome is indeed the fastest browsers on earth and if you’ve seen those speed test ads, you probably know Chrome loads about 2700 frames a second.

I’ve shifted to Chrome few months back, and ever since and I never looked back or needed any other browser. It’s fast, fun and looks great. That’s not just me but a large number of Chrome user base that says and numbers are going to add up to the base soon as Firefox and IE users are migrating to Chrome at a perplexing rate.

[Via RWW]

Google Apps to abandon Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 from March 1

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Internet Explorer 6 has been a huge problem for developers from sometime as they (including me!) are having difficult time optimizing websites for a browser made in 2001 for websites developed in recent times as technology has evolved a lot in recent years.

Google will be phasing out browser support for Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor from the first of march which means that Google will no longer guarantee the working of their products on the older browsers from that date.

Google will use technologies like HTML5 and faster javascript processing which are not supported by older browsers. They will also be showing updates on their website to upgrade browsers if you are using them. The worse part is that 100+ computers at my school use Internet Explorer 6 (I hope to break in and download Firefox soon!) . Support for services like Google Mail and Google Calendar for older browsers will be phased out later this year too.

The few prominent supported browsers would be Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

This is a great news for all those people who had started and participated in the campaigns, for driving out IE6 from computers around the world as apart from lack of functionality, these old browsers hold a huge threat to data security too.

Orkut Finally Kicks out Internet Explorer : IE 6 You must Die!!

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Well IE 6 is one of the most used browsers (atleast in India) and Orkut is one of the most used Social Networking websites in India. Now the Bad part. If your using Internet Explorer 6, you really need to change! 

Google’s Orkut has dropped support for Browser Internet Explorer six following many other websites which have taken part in IE6 no more campaign.

Well personally i think it is necessary to kick it off because so many exploits have been found in Internet Explorer six and also Webmaster need to work really hard to optimize their website for internet explorer six (i know that because i have had great problems with that!)

It’s quite clear that Internet Explorer can’t run ahead with the technological developments like HTML 4, 5 and so on… So it’s time to say Good bye to your Internet Explorer 6!

Where Did Microsoft hide $10K and why can’t i find it using safari?

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Microsoft has always tried various new ways to increase more users for their latest release , Internet Explorer 8.0  Currently Microsoft has launched a campaign called TenGrandIsBuriedHere. Well, this does seem funny to me but not to Microsoft.

In this Huge WWW, Microsoft has hid 10K Dollars on a certain webpage, and the twist is that you need to download I.E 8.0 to find the Prize. Well The website showed me a message -

But You’ll never find it using the Boring Safari (So get rid of it or Get lost)

The last few words seem to be too rude and aim directly at Mac because  there isn’t a mac version of I E 8 so, according to them you need to “Get Lost”

The Campaign has been launched in Australia. Users can look for hints for the challenge by following their twitter account @tengrand_ie8