Microsoft's Internet Explorer regained some of the browser usage it's lost in recent years, holding Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari at bay in March. IE rose from 52.8 percent of worldwide browser usage in February to 53.8 percent in March, a relatively large monthly jump in the statistics.
Google Chrome 18 brings two methods of improved graphics support to both newer and older computers. Released yesterday, Google Chrome 18 stable for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame improves both WebGL and Canvas2D.
Opera ports its WebGL hardware acceleration from Opera Mobile to the Android version of Opera Mini 7, which first debuted last month at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Opera Mini 7 for Android improves the lightweight browser's compressed browsing feature called Turbo with hardware acceleration, and expands the Speed Dial landing page beyond nine Web sites.
Following closely after the release of Safari 5.1.4, Apple released version 5.1.5 of its Web browser to address difficulties a number of users have had opening the program in 32-bit mode. Apple's latest hardware and software support has been for 64-bit code, but in order to support older plug-ins and for other compatibility reasons Apple includes a 32-bit binary for its Safari Web browser.
Google's SPDY protocol for simultaneously faster and more secure Web site loading is turned on by default in the first Firefox 13 Aurora build. Faster and more secure browsing is coming to Firefox in a big way, as the first Aurora build of Firefox 13 gets the SPDY protocol activated by default, capping off more than four months of work putting SPDY into Firefox.
Mozilla Marketplace will open its doors to developers at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona next week according to a statement made by the company. The news was announced along with details regarding the Mozilla Web Apps platform, which is supposed to level the playing field for building apps. At the event is expected also to be unveiled the upcoming mobile operating system of Mozilla, called Boot to Gecko.
Google Chrome joins the other popular browsers including Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera and Firefox that was the first to implement the Do Not Track technology developed by Mozilla and will finally allow users to choose if their behavior on the web is used for advertizing targeting. The plans of the company are to enable this privacy feature by the end of the year.
Read MoreLinux brings a full Ubuntu desktop on high-end Android smartphones. The two operating systems will run simultaneously on the same device and share contacts, messages and other common services so that you'll have Android for the phone experience, Ubuntu for the desktop at the same time. According to the company this is the best solution that will allow you to use the full potential of your dual-core phone.
In an interview Chrome leader Sundar Pichai promises that the Android version of the browser will be updated at a pretty healthy pace. After the release of the Chrome for Android beta which is available only for Ice Cream Sandwich OS at the moment, it has been downloaded between 100 000 and 500 00 times and Google expects that it will soon make money directly from the browser itself.