While Microsoft loves pushing their own in house products, this latest revelation is quite disheartening and downright rude.  According to The Next Report, IE 6 users are facing a rather nasty forced decision when it comes to search engine preference.  It appears that any attempts to switch the default search engine to any search engine other than Bing, results in a big fat error.  While some may say big deal, who uses IE 6 anyway?  Well in actuality it is a huge...

While many people could care less about acid3 tests and numbers, it is no doubt a reliable way to determine whether or not a browser will render the content of the web correctly or not.  As websites become more feature rich and packed full of content, having a browser that doesn’t follow proper HTML rule and displays everything in a jacked up manor is not a pleasant site to say the least.  While Chromium for Mac is still in a very early stage, it has come a great...

Google Chrome fans who have been desperately waiting for some Google love for there Mac now have a small reason to start the day off a tad happier.  If you a mildly techie, the latest builds of Chromium for Mac are actually pretty good.  If you live and die by Flash and aren’t the greatest with DIY installs, you still may want to hold off a bit longer as flash isn’t yet supported out of the box.  Speed wise it is fast.  Very fast.  Safari 4 beta would be a...

One of the greatest things about IE 8 and Chrome is the support for multi-processor support.  In lamens terms it means that if one tab crashes, you happily go about browsing through your 34 other tabs without having to worry about the whole boat going down in a blazing mess.  Firefox long known for it’s innovative and always bleeding edge team which pushed out new and exciting updates what seemed like constantly, has in recent quarters slacked off just a tad and let...

If you thought you were relatively “cool” and up to date technologically speaking when it came to browsers, I have some information that will make it pretty clear who the real hipsters are.  According to researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and Google Switzerland, those techie enough who use Firefox and Chrome are more “up-to-date” than those using Safari and Opera.  First off, why the lack of IE?  Well, that...