Google Chrome climbing the ranks

November 2010 Browser Market ShareNet Applications has released their browser statistics for November 2010 and its no surprise that Google Chrome’s market share is increasing.

Google Chrome is fast approaching the 10% mark slowly stealing up valuable market share from Firefox that owns 22.76% of the browser market. All thing are not peachy for Internet Explorer either, with the browser from Microsoft losing market share fast down from 62% at the start of the year to 58% last month, despite Internet Explorer 9 that was just released.

Apple’s Safari browser is sitting at the number 4 spot having a 5.57% market share, up more than 1% since the beginning of the year, this could be due to the release of the new iPad. Opera is taking the number 5 spot with a 2.27% market share, a fraction of a percentage down from earlier this year.

What is you preferred browser?

Firefox 4 Beta: Faster graphics and new audio capabilities

Mozilla Firefox 4 beta: faster graphicsThe browser wars are really starting to heat up, with Internet Explorer 9 beta to go live within a few weeks, Google just releasing Chrome 6, and now Mozilla that released Firefox 4 beta, one can’t but wonder who will take the crown of these next generation browsers.

As Google has done with Chrome, Mozilla has also gone and altered the look of Firefox 4 by moving tabs right to the top of the screen giving it top visual priority and modifying the default navigation icons a bit.

Apart from the changes in looks, Firefox 4 also features synchronization, allowing you to sync all your browser setting, passwords, bookmarks and open tabs across multiple devices. Managing tabs also got allot easier now that Firefox 4 allows you to drag and drop tabs in a manageable group that you can organize, name and arrange.

Under the hood is where it matter most for Firefox 4, the browser now allows you take advantage of your graphical hardware by rendering pages making use of Direct2D by default and with support for DirectX 10. Mozilla also introduced a new Audio API that exposes the raw audio data housed within the <video> and <audio> elements in HTML5 making it easy for developers to use JS to read and write audio data.

HTML 5 support has also been souped up with a brand new HTML 5 parser giving full support for web video, audio, drag & drop, and file handling in Firefox 4. Also support for CSS3 features like Transitions and Transformations makes it easy to add elegant animations to Web pages.

All in all Firefox 4 beta looks set to become a great browser, lets just hope Mozilla has sorted out the high memory usage that made usage of previous versions of their browser unbearable for me. You can grab yourself a copy of Firefox 4 beta here.

Complete list of Firefox 3.5 shortcuts

Firefox 3.5 ShortcutsHopefully you have already downloaded and installed Firefox 3.5 on your PC, if not do yourself a favour and download it here. Even if you are a regular Firefox user am sure you do not know all keyboard shortcuts for all possible options. So to make your life easier, I present the complete list of all keyboard shorcuts in Firefox 3.5.

Here we go,

Navigation

  • Back – Alt+Left Arrow, Backspace
  • Forward – Alt+Right Arrow, Shift+Backspace
  • Home – Alt+Home
  • Open File – Ctrl+O
  • Reload – F5, Ctrl +R
  • Reload (override cache) – Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+Shift+R
  • Stop – Esc

Current Page

  • Go to Bottom of Page – End
  • Go to Top of Page – Home
  • Move to Next Frame – F6
  • Move to Previous Frame – Shift+F6

Page Info

  • Page Source – Ctrl+U
  • Print – Ctrl+P
  • Save Page As – Ctrl+S
  • Zoom In – Ctrl++
  • Zoom Out – Ctrl+-
  • Zoom Reset – Ctrl+0

Editing

  • Copy – Ctrl+C
  • Cut – Ctrl+X
  • Delete – Delete
  • Paste – Ctrl+V
  • Redo – Ctrl+Y
  • Select All – Ctrl+A
  • Undo – Ctrl+Z

Search

  • Find – Ctrl+F
  • Find Again – F3, Ctrl+G
  • Find As You Type Link – ‘
  • Find As You Type Text – /
  • Find Previous – Shift+F3
  • Web Search – Ctrl+K, Ctrl+E

Windows & Tabs

  • Close Tab – Ctrl+W, Ctrl+F4
  • Close Window – Ctrl+Shift+W, Alt+F4
  • Move Tab Left (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+Left Arrow, Ctrl+Up Arrow
  • Move Tab Right (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+Right Arrow, Ctrl+Down Arrow
  • Move Tab to Beginning (when tab is focused) – Ctrl +Home
  • Move Tab to End (when tab is focused) – Ctrl+End
  • New Tab – Ctrl+T
  • New Window – Ctrl+N
  • Next Tab – Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+Page Down
  • Open Address in New Tab (from Location Bar or Search Bar) – Alt+Enter
  • Previous Tab – Ctrl+Shift+Tab, Ctrl+Page Up
  • Undo Close Tab – Ctrl+Shift+T
  • Select Tab (1 to 8) – Ctrl+(1 to 8)
  • Select Last Tab – Ctrl+9

Tools

  • Bookmark All Tabs – Ctrl+Shift+D
  • Bookmark This Page – Ctrl+D
  • Bookmarks – Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I
  • Caret Browsing – F7
  • Downloads – Ctrl+J
  • History – Ctrl+H
  • Clear Private Data – Ctrl+Shift+Del
  • Error Console – Ctrl+Shift+J

Miscellaneous

  • Complete .com Address – Ctrl+Enter
  • Complete .net Address – Shift+Enter
  • Complete .org Address – Ctrl+Shift+Enter
  • Delete Selected Autocomplete Entry – Del
  • Toggle Full Screen – F11
  • Help – F1
  • Select Location Bar – Alt+D, F6, Ctrl+L
  • Select or Manage Search Engines (when Search Bar is focused) – Alt+Up Arrow, Alt+Down Arrow, F4

Hopefully you know most of these already and have learned a few along the way.

Firefox 3.5 Released

Firefox 3.5 was released today. Firefox 3.5  is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use.

Some of the noteable features are:

I have been running the beta version of Firefox 3.5 for some time now and have been very impressed to date, especialy performance wise. So if you’re a Firefox fanboi go ahead and download the Firefox 3.5 now. Download available here or locally here.

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