To make matters even worse for Internet Explorer, Chrome and the other fledgling browsers, Mozilla updated its popular Firefox browser to v3.0.6
Mozilla's latest update to Firefox 3 includes several security and stability issues including a critical vulnerability involving memory corruption, a few high vulnerabilities with SessionStore and XSS using a chrome XBL, and a moderate vulnerability in chrome privilege escalation. The changes aren't quite as extensive as 3.0.5 or 3.0.4, but users will benefit from an improved ability for scripted commands (like Adblock Plus) and corrected display issues. Mozilla also removed client user ID information from crash reports.
According to TechTarget, SessionStire saves session information that includes text typed in forms, open windows and tabs, and window size and position. Malicious scripts in a web page can steal the user's local file once the user re-opens a manipulated tab. Additionally, the XBL (extensible bindings language) error could be used to execute arbitrary JavaScript. Attackers successful in exploiting the flaw can access the victim's cookies and recently submitted data.
As of last month, Mozilla's Firefox ranked #1 in browser usage, racking in a whopping 45.5 percent market share according to these statistics. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 falls into second place, taking up 25.7 percent of the market, followed by Internet Explorer 6 with 18.5 percent. In fact, Firefox didn't take the lead in the browser wars until September of 2007, taking a .5 percent lead over IE6. But as of late, Internet Explorer has lost even more ground with Firefox, dropping .5 percent from November to December, suffering a steady decrease in usage since July 2008.
Although Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome are slowly gaining ground, their market share percentiles (3.9 percent for Chrome, 2.3 percent for Opera) dictate that both Internet Explorer and Firefox have nothing to worry about for now. January even showed that 0.6 percent of the users chose the new Internet Explorer 8 beta.
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Was that supposed to say Safari? Wouldn't make sense to talk about Safari and Chrome, and then give stats about Chrome and Opera ...
Did you really have to look for a random site to find statistics that said firefox was higher usage? Nothing off a big site skewed to your liking enough?
Fanboi reporting is horrible.
The update came at a good time. I was just rebooting from a system freeze that resulted from using FF 3.05. Hopefully this one is more stable.
Haven't tried the new update, but for me I have been suffering worse usage with each FF3 update. The most crash-free non-resource-hogging time I had was when it was in beta.
[Sarcasm] Hmmm, maybe its a Microsoft conspiracy... after all, they've abandoned Vista for Windows 7 but I still get all these updates... [\Sarcasm]
Sh!t, now I have to switch browsers. Hackers are going to attack the biggest browser, looks like I'm dumping Firefox.
Wasn't there an article from Feb 3rd that stated:
Pretty interesting how much those numbers differ after only two days...
firefox an avg were partnering up to delete cookies and saved passwords/logins. I switched from avg to avast, I wonder how this latest firefox will be. It was annoying having to retpye login information constantly, checking that stupid remember me box only to have firefox forget time and again.
i love when tom's has a firefox news update... that chick is hot
[and im not too fond of white girls either]
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.
Kevin Parrish: This isn't the first time I've seen you go crazy with W3Schools stats (But at least the numbers are cited correctly this time).
Try to be a bit more careful, please. You're using a source which disclaims a clear self-selection bias among its visitors, causing it to returns Firefox usage approximately double what other sources report.
Well it happens when the moron kevin parish flips out a site that specifically states: "W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers. These facts indicate that the browser figures above are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users."Thanks Kevin, you go above and beyond the call of duty to report to us the most unrealistic, unreliable, and inacruate information on the web. Seriously, find something better to do.
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Since when is internet explorer a 'fledgling' browser? Why are you even here?
pic related?
Same chick, different browser on the shirt. Hot anyway.
Security updates seem kind of slow on Firefox compared to Internet Explorer.
Fire fox sucks!!! what do you think you need to download stuff IE and also fire fox thinks every thing is a !@#$ addon even when I try to download a game. it is so inconvient to switch browsers
As of last month, Mozilla's Firefox ranked #1 in browser usage, racking in a whopping 45.5 percent market share according to these statistics. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 falls into second place, taking up 25.7 percent of the market, followed by Internet Explorer 6 with 18.5 percent.
I'm not sure those statistics are anywhere close to being correct--and the author I believe is purposely misleading us. When comparing one browser's market share to another, it is pretty da$%ed misleading to compare one version of one browser to ALL versions of another. There's still significant browser share in IE6, IE7 and even IE8 is gaining. I'll bet this month the IE8 share will rise more since the recent RC1.
after installing ie 8 rc1 and having problem at a number of sites i frequently visit, like this one, ive installed and swithed to mozilla 3.0.6 and guess what no problem and i have a lot of nice add-ons to play with. if microserfs want my hard earned money they gave to do a better job.
Lots of problems with this latest update.
jsloan - WOW, IE is free you idiot; keep your hard earned money, internet explorer doesn't want you anyway.
after installing ie 8 rc1 and having problem at a number of sites i frequently visit, like this one, ive installed and swithed to mozilla 3.0.6 and guess what no problem and i have a lot of nice add-ons to play with. if microserfs want my hard earned money they gave to do a better job.
Yes, IE is free. For the record the latest RC1 update to IE8 improved this site's compatibility considerably; the "Submit" button doesn't have text over it as before and I no longer have intermittent crashes when browsing to the 7th or 8th page in a long article. In fact, IE8 RC1 works considerably better and faster than IE7 or IE8b2.
I'm no expert but I've only come across a very few websites that seem to only work properly using IE. This can easily be overcome using the IE tab add on which is only 1 of hundreds of possible add ons to suit any user needs. As a frequent Windows internet user I was the victim of many attacks from malware of all sorts, since I switched over to FF I haven't had anything mysteriously install it'self on my system.
1- For the sake of professionalism,the term 'Firefox Girl Porn', could drop the 'porn' on the end! Toms is becoming a branch of the sex industry? Or does it try to remain professional on computer info?
2- They indeed show the same girl of 2 days ago,only now with a firefox shirt (instead of an IE shirt), perhaps showing her attitude towards men as well.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/B [...] ,6949.html
3- The numbers are indeed far off compared to a couple of days ago review! I can and will not believe the majority uses firefox. Internet explorer comes with Windows, and the majority still uses IE.
If that would be the case I'm with Tindytim. I'll switch for security reasons, but as far as I know now, these numbers are off, unless previous article was off!!
Does it even make sense tom would contradict itself?
I'm no expert but I've only come across a very few websites that seem to only work properly using IE. This can easily be overcome using the IE tab add on which is only 1 of hundreds of possible add ons to suit any user needs. As a frequent Windows internet user I was the victim of many attacks from malware of all sorts, since I switched over to FF I haven't had anything mysteriously install it'self on my system.
You should know that IETab only works because it opens an instance of Internet Explorer through Firefox, which means that malicious sites can still get malware onto your computer if you open them with that extension. That also means it's not an option for Mac/Linux people.
1- For the sake of professionalism,the term 'Firefox Girl Porn', could drop the 'porn' on the end! Toms is becoming a branch of the sex industry? Or does it try to remain professional on computer info?
Bah, it's just a silly graphic. "OH NOES THEY HAVE A GIRL ARCHING HER BACK! IS TOMS NOW PART OF TEH SECKS INDUSTREE???" Please.
As to the numbers not matching, notice that these articles were written by two different people. Kevin Parrish apparently thinks that his source is superior, even though lots of people have pointed out the problem with it in the past.