The Browsers wars rage on....

Google leads the industry in the ability to update it's browser, Google Chrome.  This past week Google patched 27 vulnerabilities and paid out almost $17,000 in bounties, yes bounties.  Google actually pays researchers and developers to try to hack their browser.  If you can do it, a nice reward for you.  It's a creative way to secure your browser, hack it before the hackers do.  In other Chrome news, Google is introducing a feature that will alert you when you download a file from a dangerous website.  The hope being that you will take their advice and not open that file before it's too late.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 has continued to make big gains in the browser wars, although Microsoft's hold as a whole is down to 54.3% (It wasn't that long ago that Internet Explorer was over 95% of the market).  Although IE9's share shot up 1.8 percentage points to 4.2%, that wasn't enough to offset the declines posted by other versions. IE8, the browser bundled with Windows 7, lost 1.8 points on its own -- the third month in a row the venerable browser, and the last that will run on Windows XP, lost ground -- while the older IE7 and the ancient IE6 dropped three-tenths and five-tenths of a point, respectively.

Firefox has held steady at around 21.7%, the same number it has held since 2008. 

The war rages on...