According to research conducted by StatCounter, Google’s new browser, Chrome, has taken 1% of the global browser market within a day of launch. Google’s unusual step of publicizing the Chrome browser on its notoriously clutter-free homepage is an indication of the plans that Google has for this browser… “This is a phenomenal performance” commented Aodhan Cullen, “this is war on Microsoft but the big loser could be Firefox.” While Google may have the Internet Explorer market share in its sites, the fact that many Firefox users are more “mobile” as far as browser use is concerned, may impact on the current Firefox market share.

Note: The StatCounter analysis was conducted today, Wednesday, 03 September 2008, and was based on a sample of 18.5 million page views globally. The analysis identified that Internet Explorer holds 70% of the global browser market followed by Firefox with 22%.

Credits: Stat Counter

The excitement about Google’s surprising published browser is justified. Chrome not only promises a lot, but also delivers it: speed, simplicity and technology. What a surprise. Not even 48 hours ago Google announced a program, which only hours before was not known that it exists: Google Chrome - an Internet browser.

More later. Check out the story behind the browser here at Google.

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Fix found for net security flaw! Computer experts have released software to tackle a security glitch in the internet’s addressing system. The flaw, discovered by accident, would allow criminals to redirect users to fake webpages, even if they typed the correct address into a browser.
Internet giants such as Microsoft are now distributing the security patch.

Security expert Dan Kaminsky said that the case was unprecedented, but added: “People should be concerned but they should not be panicking.”
“We have bought you as much time as possible to test and apply the patch,” he said. “Something of this scale has not happened before.”
Mr Kaminsky discovered the error in the workings of the Domain Name System (DNS) about six months ago.
DNS is used to convert web addresses written in words - such as www.bbc.com - into the numerical sequences used by computers to route internet traffic around the world. The flaw revolves around the way that the servers that translate words into numbers handle the requests they get. Unresolved the flaw would make it simple to operate “phishing” scams, in which users are directed to fake webpages supposedly for genuine banks or businesses and are tricked into disclosing credit card details or other personal data. Mr Kaminsky talked to Microsoft, Sun and Cisco and many others in March and has been part of a team engaged in secret research since then to develop the security patch which has now been released simultaneously. “This hasn’t been done before and it is a massive undertaking,” said Mr Kaminsky said. Read the rest of this entry »