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It doesn't look good for Firefox: Almost every month for the last three years, has lost ground to Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari.

For most of 2009 the trend was fairly straight as it fended off Chrome and nibbled away at IE, but between 2010 and today Firefox has lost a third of its market share, from a worldwide peak of around 30% down to 20%.

At long last, Microsoft has nudged users away from Internet Explorer 6, the browser that would not die, and toward newer versions.

It was always assumed that Mozilla's Firefox browser would one day overtake Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the global browser market, ending IE's reign that began when the Redmond software giant buried Netscape Navigator years ago.

But as it turns out, Google Chrome might have a better shot of overtaking IE, and at the rate things are going,...

Microsoft has just delivered a large Christmas present to IT directors and users alike in the form of its last “Patch Tuesday” of the year.

Addressing bugs in Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office, the updates repair twenty issues including a fix for the dangerous Duqu worm that took the internet by storm recently.

In addition, the browser exploit against SSL/TSL cookies (BEAST) is being fixed in this package.

Accuvant Lab's browser security study compared Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Just a few years ago, Mozilla's Firefox browser was rising fast as the chief challenger to Microsoft's stubbornly dominant Internet Explorer.

Things change pretty fast in the world of Internet technology, however, and today Firefox's once bright future seems much less certain.

In 2008, Mozilla entered into a three-year partnership with Google. In exchange for remaining the default search engine on Firefox, Google hands over about 84% of Firefox's total revenue.

Well, it's 2011 now and, as ZDNet's Ed Bott points out, the status of that partnership is unclear....

Microsoft's Internet Explorer still has largest share of market, but Google's browser shows strong growth.

You can learn a lot about a person from his or her mobile device, browser or computer preferences. New research shows that — at least when it comes to donation patterns — Apple users trump their PC, Android and Blackberry using counterparts.