browser wars

Browser Wars: Hey Microsoft, Stop Being Jealous of Firefox and Check the Math

Kit Eaton — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:08:01 -0400

Microsoft is obviously chock-full of nice sweet people, slaving away to make its software products all groovy...but not Amy Barzdukas. She's just been saying some very snarky things about Firefox's Billion Downloads claim.

European Union Accuses Microsoft of More Anti-Competitive Action

Kit Eaton — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:14:22 -0500

The European Union has just taken a fresh bite at Microsoft's anit-competitive business practices, and accused the company of harming "competition between web browsers" by bundling Internet Explorer with its Windows OSs. It's a preliminarty finding, so no punitive action is outlined. Yet.

Can Opera Become to Mobile What Firefox has Become to the Computer?

Lynne d Johnson — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:13:51 -0500

Opera, as a Web browser on your computer, has been in existence since 1994, back when the desktop browser wars were between Netscape vs. Internet Explorer. Sure, there's no Netscape today, but the browser war is moving to the mobile Web, with Safari on the iPhone, IE on Windows Mobile, BlackBerry's Web Browser, and Chrome on Android. Not to mention, Firefox (aka Fennec) is coming to the mobile Web soon.

Just when you thought the war was over...

Stephen L Rose — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:28:50 -0400

Now with the release of Google's Chrome browser and Microsoft's IE8 Beta, a new era of browser wars has begun. Firefox, Safari and Opera have made a bit of a dent taking about 20% of the market away from Microsoft but Google's Chrome browser threaten to be the first real competitor in the ring since the early days of Netscape.

What's good and bad about the browsers?