Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:37:35 PM
We are rapidly approaching my magic 40% figure of internauts using an unsafe browser to do their work on the Web.
Last month only a little over 42% were on the unsafe dark blue side while a little over 55% were using modern browsers. I consider this another milestone, though not nearly as big as when we can finally retire the IE6 band altogether. Chrome was the big gainer last month at ~1.5 points followed closely by IE9 with a full point. Everyone else had fairly lackluster progress, though we should also note that total IE usage finally dipped below 50% for the first time in history and will probably and thankfully never return to dominance again.
Microsoft launched YourBrowserMatters.org in partnership with IdentityTheftCouncil.org, OnlineTrustAlliance.org and APWG.org to educate internauts on threat potential of their browsing habits. The site checks your browser and gives back a safety score from 1 to 4 and guess what!
Only IE9 gets a perfect score, can you just imagine?
Needless to say there's a bit more discussion on this as well as Google's Dart vs JavaScript, HTML5 and a poll about paying for browsers in the "rest of the story" . . .
. . . Concluded on Smiley's Journal: Internaut IQ Update - October
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Monday, August 1, 2011 12:00:00 PM
This month marks a milestone on my IQ index, over half of the internaut community is now using a fast browser that honors internet standards. I say this because Microsoft has gone a long ways toward mending their evil history and IE9 is a good example of a modern browser.
Changes in browser usage were fairly mundane last month, predictable with no real surprises. Overall IE usage lost a point to Chrome and Safari and IE9 (at 6.77%) took a point away from his siblings thereby overtaking Opera's 2.90% usage statistic and closing in on Safari's 8.05%. IE6 doggedly held onto it's 10% share despite heroic efforts by the entire internet community.
. . . Concluded on Smiley's Journal: Internaut IQ Update - July
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Friday, July 1, 2011 8:36:19 PM
Microsoft released IE 9.01 last month, it patched a Critical Flaw that allowed malicious code execution from just viewing a craftily designed webpage.
The hole affected IE's versions 6, 7, 8, and 9, fortunately Microsoft's "Patch Tuesday" came to the rescue again! Those of you that are still using IE to browse the internet should minimally find out about "Exploit Wednesday" or better, download a browser developed by folks more concerned with safety of users than simplicity of merchants.Google's Chrome made headlines last month for a security flaw found by researchers.
The article also tries to throw a "cloud of uncertainty over the whole subject of
Cloud Computing" which may be reasonable, and also might not. It is possible for Cloud Computing to be conducted in a safe manner, however that safety has a direct relationship to
Internaut Intelligence and vigilance.
Security is a pain, minimally it is tiresome and sometimes it can be downright aggravating. Running Firefox with NoScript installed is an excellent practice that would save internauts from literally millions of malware attacks. But it means you have to carefully "
whitelist" a website that wants to use Flash, or JavaScript and hopefully give thought to which website you're giving permissions on your
White List.
NoScript would handle the new WebGL flaw the could affect Google Chrome as well. The immediate work-around for this problem seems to be just disabling the feature in your browser, but that won't work for long since any new technology tends toward a very fast adoption in our new Web2.0 world.
. . . Concluded on Smiley's Journal: Internaut IQ Update - June
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 10:00:00 AM
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IE 9 made a 1.75% spike in popularity last month, but took it away from the other IE flavors rather than the competition, IE 6 usage dipped below 11.0% which still leaves it as popular as IE 7 and IE 9 put together and is a LONG STRETCH from the 1.0% browser usage figure that Microsoft desires.
Total IE usage dropped by a bit less than 1 point, still leaving Microsoft's browser with over half of the total market share. IE was the only loser in May, but they only gave up 1 point for the rest of the browsers to latch on to, so we didn't see a major uptick in the overall intelligence of today's Internauts last month.
I created the above graph from data published by HitsLink.com which is a sample of 160 million visits to their member websites. This gives a good idea of the browsing habits of the CIA's estimated 1 Billion plus Internauts as of May 2011. Last month I also started tracking Facebook "Like"s on Browser's Pages.
. . . Concluded on Smiley's Journal: Internaut IQ Update - May
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:00:00 AM
Internet Explorer 9 made a 1.5% spike in popularity last month,[/SIZE] but took it away from IE 7 & 8 rather than the competition, IE 6 usage remained basically the same at about 11.5%.
Total IE usage dropped by a bit less than 1 point, still leaving Microsoft's browser with over half of the total market share. Firefox was the only other loser last month down 0.2%, while Chrome and Safari were the big winners, each showing a half point gain.
The persistence of Internet Explorer 6 is now even vexing Microsoft, which I find to be poetic justice since IE6 has been making life miserable for web developers for over a decade. My February Internaut IQ report explains Microsoft's myopic vision for browser dominance and the fatal flaw presented by Windows XP.
. . . concluded on Smiley's Journal: Internaut IQ update - April
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