In what’s now becoming an almost monthly event, the Mozilla team have released yet another major version of their web browser, Firefox 9! …once again, we’re able to bring you this news “hot off the press”, so much so that Mozilla have yet to update their Release Notes for Firefox 9 yet!
It’s looks like the browser war between Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome is really hotting up now too! Less than a week ago, Google also released a major update Google Chrome 16. In the same week, Microsoft also announced that in 2012, Internet Explorer will keep itself up-to-date – just like Firefox and Chrome already do!
…and if that wasn’t enough web browser news, if the reports over the numbers over at StatCounter are to be believed, Google Chrome 15 is now the “world’s number one browser”!
StatCounter claims that in the last two weeks of November and the first week of December, Chrome 15 was used by 24 percent of web browser users worldwide compared to only 22.9 percent for IE8. It was the first time ever in StatCounter’s history that a web browser not developed and released by Microsoft had reached the top spot on its stat numbers.
These results show that Google’s Chrome web browser is definitely gaining more and more users worldwide. Just a couple of weeks ago, StatCounter claimed that Chrome overtakes Mozilla’s Firefox to become the world’s number two web browser in terms of cumulative web browsers rather than specific versions.
So it looks like there’s going to be some fierce competition between the 5 main browsers in 2012, and you can expect version numbers to continue incrementing at an ever increasing rate as that all important market share is hotly contended for!
Our browser-based software, MIDAS, is fully compatible with the very latest versions of ALL 5 main browsers, and we will continue to work hard during 2012 to make sure that whatever new browser versions the 5 main vendors put out, MIDAS will run in all of them!