Safari news from FierceCIO

Search giant Google has ceased development of Google Gears, and has shifted to focus on the development of standards-compliant HTML5 as a replacement. This in itself is not completely unexpected... Read more...

Google's Chrome browser has inched into the position of third most-popular browser, a mere 16 months after its debut in September 2008. According to research firm Net Applications, Chrome ended... Read more...

Google Chrome's first birthday was a couple of weeks back, so this week Google released Chrome 3.0. This new stable build adds support for HTML5, which--among other capabilities--allows for the... Read more...

Remember Marc Andreessen? Well, he's the founder of Netscape, whose Internet browser literally introduced millions to the Internet before being roundly defeated by Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Now... Read more...

Google has revealed its plan for a Chrome synchronization service that will allow users to sync their browser data from Chrome with their Google accounts. The framework will become part of Google's... Read more...

Officially released by Mozilla last Tuesday, it has now emerged that Firefox 3.5, the latest release of the most popular open source web browser has seen a staggering 5 million downloads in the first... Read more...

Barely hours after Microsoft's official launch of Internet Explorer 8, Nils, a computer science student from Germany managed to break into a Sony laptop running Windows 7 and IE8. The hack was... Read more...

The recently released beta of Apple's Safari 4 browser managed to beat all other browsers available today when it comes to rendering JavaScript. Conducted using the SunSpider suite of JavaScript... Read more...

Apple has released the largest security update in nearly a year, releasing a staggering 55 patches mostly destined for its flagship Mac OS X operating system. About 32 of the bugs were related to... Read more...

Microsoft's venerable Internet Explorer saw a considerable dip in its market share in December, garnering just 68.15 percent of web surfers who were monitored in December. This is a steep decrease... Read more...