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Browser Startups Take Aim at Google Chrome, Apple Safari

Browser Startups Take Aim at Google Chrome, Apple Safari

Web browsers were at the center of the first major antitrust case challenging the power of big tech companies more than two decades ago. Now a new generation of regulators and rivals are again questioning whether the gateways to the internet are too tightly controlled. Back then, in the 1990s, the target was Microsoft Today, it is Alphabet Google and Apple which together control more than 80% of the market through their Chrome and Safari browsers, respectively. Source link

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Report shows that Safari reaches one billion worldwide users, still behind Google Chrome – TechCrunch

Report shows that Safari reaches one billion worldwide users, still behind Google Chrome – TechCrunch

Based on a recent report, Apple’s Safari finally hit one billion users, becoming the second browser to hit the milestone, next to Google Chrome, which still shines brighter in popularity. According to Atlas VPN, 1,006,232,879 internet users (19.16% of all internet users) currently use the Safari browser. Meanwhile, Google Chrome has three times more, with a whopping 3,378,967,819 users. Microsoft Edge sits in third place with about 212,695,000 users. Atlas… Source link

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Google says Chrome’s latest update is faster than Safari

Google says Chrome’s latest update is faster than Safari

Google has said that the latest Chrome update, version M99, is setting records on Apple’s own Speedometer web benchmark and is even faster and more responsive on Macs than Safari. A post on the Chromium Blog breaks down the improvements made to Chrome’s speed over the past year or so when compiling JavaScript and rendering graphics. According to Google, this all adds up to its browser being the fastest on M1 Macs, benchmarking around 7 percent faster than Safari. Chrome M99 also… Source link

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Google says Chrome on macOS is now faster than Safari – TechCrunch

Google says Chrome on macOS is now faster than Safari – TechCrunch

Version 100 of Google Chrome will launch within the next few weeks, but even after all of this time, there’s still some room for speeding up the browser. As Google announced today, version 99 of Chrome on macOS manages to score 300 points on the Speedometer benchmark, which was originally developed by Apple’s WebKit team. This, Google points out, is the fastest performance of any browser yet. Speedometer 2.0 tests for responsiveness, which makes it a good proxy for user experience…. Source link

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Google wins appeal against UK class action-style suit seeking damages for Safari tracking – TechCrunch

Google wins appeal against UK class action-style suit seeking damages for Safari tracking – TechCrunch

Google has won an appeal against a class action-style privacy litigation at the UK Supreme Court — avoiding what could have been up to £3BN in damages had it lost the case. The long-running litigation was brought by veteran consumer rights campaigner, Richard Lloyd, who, since 2017, has been pursing a collective lawsuit, alleging Google applied a Safari workaround to override iPhone users’ privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser between 2011 and 2012 — and seeking… Source link

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Firefox, Edge, Safari, and other browsers won’t use Google’s new FLoC ad tech

Firefox, Edge, Safari, and other browsers won’t use Google’s new FLoC ad tech

Google is going it alone with its proposed advertising technology to replace third-party cookies. Every major browser that uses the open source Chromium project has declined to use it, and it’s unclear what that will mean for the future of advertising on the web. A couple of weeks ago, Google announced it was beginning to test a new ad technology inside Google Chrome called the Federated Learning of Cohorts, or FLoC. It uses an algorithm to look at your browser history and place you in… Source link

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Baboons ‘armed with knives and chainsaws’ spotted in safari park

Baboons ‘armed with knives and chainsaws’ spotted in safari park

The baboons at Knowsley Safari Park are reportedly being armed with weapons by visitors keen for ‘a laugh’, the Sunday Times reported. (File picture: PA) Baboons at a popular safari park have been spotted armed with knives, screwdrivers and even a chainsaw, according to reports. The primates at Knowsley Safari Park in Merseyside are already known for their destructive abilities and have been pictures previously pulling things from visitors’ cars. But now, some staff are concerned that the… Source link

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