1. Ghostery

It’s the best privacy protecting program in the internet.It allows you to track and block all the invisible web trackers that track your movements across the web. After showing you who operates behind the scenes, Ghostery also gives you the opportunity to learn more about each company it identifies, including links to their privacy policy and opt-out options. Ghostery allows you to block scripts from companies that you don’t trust and even block images and iframes. Ghostery is an incredibly popular Firefox extension and they have recently launched the Chrome version of it.

2.Personal Blocklist (by Google)

This extension blocks selected sites from Google Search, thereby removing spam sites from search results. It is really helpful to remove irritating sites that serve no content and host Adware. The extension transmits the sites you choose to block to Google. Google however assures that the information is completely anonymous and it will be only used to better it’s services. It is a great add-on nevertheless.

3.Click & Clean

It’s an great extension that allows you to protect your financial and social applications easily.It is an one click Privacy booster that removes common annoyances.

Main features:

• Scan your PC for Malware
• Delete your browsing history
• Remove download history
• Erase temporary files
• Clear cookies and Empty cache
• Delete client-side Web SQL Databases
• Remove Flash Cookies (LSOs)
• Protect your privacy by cleaning up all traces of your internet activity

4.Hide My Ass Web Proxy

Hide My Ass is an incredibly is an popular web proxy that redirects your webpage through an anonymous server of Hide My Ass! It has an one click proxy. Whilst already browsing a website, click the extension icon to browse the website anonymously. Alternatively click the icon on a new tab to be shown a web proxy form and specify a website to proxify. It also has advanced features like URL obfuscation & SSL encryption.

5.Web of Trust

WOT ratings are powered by a global community of millions of trustworthy users who have rated millions of websites based on their experiences. The WOT add-on shows reputation ratings next to search results when you use Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and many other search engines. Links in social sites like Facebook and Twitter, along with shortened URLs are covered too. Your online email account – Google Mail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail is also protected.Recently WOT had an pact with Facebook to remove spammy sites.

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In a recent Computer World article [read here] Chrome ended the month of September 2011 with 16.2% of the Browser market share compared to Safari’s 5% considering that Safari.

It is estimated that by June 2012 Chrome will also overtake Firefox as the 2nd most popular web browser in terms of percentage behind all the iterations of Internet Explorer (6,7,8 and 9 combined make up the largest % by far still).

This only looks like an increase as Chrome OS notebooks start gaining a little traction (very little albeit) and android devices continue to spread out like tribbles across users internationally.

I myself have converted to Chrome as my dominant browser over a year ago and haven’t looked back. In fact I have never even bothered to open my Firefox except maybe 1x per month when debugging my website or testing it for multiple browser compatibility.

As a web site owner, I often have to make sure my site operates on every browser you can think of and even with the market % being so small you have to make sure your site loads properly and quickly.  I have tested with Opera, Chrome, Firefox 6, IE9, Safari, Rockmelt (Chromium based) and several mobile browsers.  iChromy for iPad for example is another Chromium based browser.

In fact, if you look at the last 30 days traffic on my site you will see out of 87,032 unique visits that 27,997 were from users using Google Chrome!  Firefox comes it at #2 with 26,251 visitors while Internet Explorer is 16,001.

As my site primarily appears to bloggers and tech enthusiasts this would show you that most savvy internet folk have already made Chrome the dominant browser of choice.  Oddly enough I don’t know what Android Browser is, I thought Android only used a version of Chrome by default.

Mozilla Compatible Agent must be something like Flock browser I would imagine.

Have you looked at Google Analytics to see what browser type makes up the majority of your visitors?  Share your stats here with me, tell me which browser type most commonly visits your site!

-Dragon Blogger

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As far as web browsers are concerned, Google Chrome beats Firefox, Internet Explorer and most others hands down in the areas of speed, resource minimization and HTML 5 support. The only reason people still prefer Firefox is because it has a large number of plugins and extensions. But no more! Sorezki has released a spanking new Chrome extension for SEO professionals, webmasters and blog owners called Sorezki SEO Plus Chrome extension. Some of its most exciting features are:

1.Google Webmaster Tools upgrades

2.Yahoo Search statistics

3.Google Analytics with social activity stats and local search statistics!

4.On-page statistics for each webpage, showing competitor links as well!

5.Social Media popularity stats

6.Google PageRank, backlink stats, anchor text info, meta data, markup validation and search rankings live!

7.Multiple search engine box (Google, Bing and Yahoo!) with Geo-location based search tools

8.Absolutely no privacy-related issues, since no personally identifiable information or search history is stored by Sorezki.

9.One-click access to live website information! Just click on the link at the top right of the Google Chrome window beside the address bar.

10.An optimization tab showing all validation errors, number of HTML tags like Title, h1, meta tags etc.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Despite having such diverse features, the Sorezki SEO Extension for Chrome is absolutely free of cost!

Since the only justification for my using Firefox now was to view live website stats, I’m seriously considering uninstalling Mozilla Firefox 4 and 5!

FREE Download link for Sorezki SEO Plus Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fppbohabnbkicdpaggehhpaadklacacj.

Once you have downloaded/installed the Extension on Google Chrome, all you need to do is right-click on the icon beside the address bar and click on settings. Then configure the extension quickly to start getting one-click statistics and validation information live on the webpages!

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This is a signal just showing how rapidly Google has taken the Chrome browser with updates every 6 weeks Chrome is releasing more major versions with enhancements and features in a pace that Mozilla Firefox cannot apparently keep up. Google has the muscle to address and fix bugs, vulnerabilities and at a lightning pace and we continue to see security vulnerabilities found for Firefox though I feel that Firefox is still a larger target for exploitation than Google Chrome.

This will change as Google OS takes foot and Google Chrome continues to increase its market share of the web browser space, by bundling the Google Chrome OS into Android and Chrome Operating systems they will place a foothold that Mozilla has not had much luck in and that is getting the browser to be the default install on an Operating System.

I for one am almost completely using the Google Chromium based browser, though I am using RockMelt almost exclusively now as the search bar and RSS feed integration are better than any extensions I can find on Google Chrome itself right now. RockMelt is based on the Chrome 8 and is kept updated to match Google Chrome browser version releases. Fortunately most Google Chrome extensions work just fine on RockMelt, but there are a few that can give trouble (I myself haven’t found any, but I have read reports on them).

Google Chrome for me is the fastest internet browser and utilizes less memory than FireFox, when the browser does crash (rarely) only a single tab crashes and never does it impact all the other tabs in the same browser window. The only crashes I ever see occur typically have to do with opening PDF files inside the browser or occasionally hitting websites with heavy scripting.

I did have high hopes for Firefox which is going to be releasing a browser that completely changes the way we view web pages and we will no longer see traditional tabs and “pages” the way we do now, but I am not sure if this innovation will be enough to stop the Google machine from consuming market share in the browser world. What I am surprised at is that Microsoft Internet Explorer is still so dominant because it is the default operating system on Windows machines, despite that it is among the worst browsers (IE 9 however does much better than previous versions) I still find it renders CSS poorly in many cases on certain websites.

Out of the next generation of browsers which is your favorite? Have you taken a look at the 10,000 Google Chrome Extensions yet? Anything you could be looking for you can find, by the way an extension called Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer solves the PDF crashing issue and works with RockMelt as well as Google Chrome.

-Dragon Blogger

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As we wake up on a brand new day, we can always hope to see something new in the web world too. One such day was when I woke up to the newest technology called HTML5.  And here I am to give you some insight about the new born child in the world of web.

As we all know HTML5 is the latest version of HTML / XHTML and in the wake of its existence all the outdated web browsers that couldn’t support it are now forced to update themselves to fit into its new standards.

Mozilla and Google were the two amongst the first browsers to do that, duly followed by Opera, IE and Safari. Google was the first one though to release one that supported quite a few (not all though) tags of HTML5.

While IE has been lagging behind in the race to impress its users, Google and Firefox are way ahead and the war has already begun to clinch the pole position.

Now that the race has begun, Chrome seems to have gained lot of ground when compared to Firefox. When Firefox was way ahead after releasing its Firefox4, Chrome was in its build stage with Chrome4, but now though the tables have turned and Chrome is already on its way to release the stable version of Chrome 7, whereas Firefox4 is still way behind in testing its Beta 6.

Below research should help in giving you some idea where the browsers stand at this point.

Google’s Strategy and Chrome versioning

The hot news that’s doing the rounds in web circle is that Google has adopted a new strategy with Chrome Browser, which means we will now be seeing a new face of it once in six weeks. Now having said that, does that mean we are going to be seeing Chrome 9 by the end of this year? The answer is “Hell , ya.”

As I said before, Chrome 7 beta is on live and Chrome 8 is available as latest build. Wait there, they aren’t done yet, Chrome 9 build has already started and we are expecting Chrome 8 beta to be out this week.

Anthony Laforge, Technical Program Manager from Mountain View had recently said,

We’re 41 days away from the branch point for mstone:9 and we have 1236 open bugs, at the time of this note.  Given our open and close rates we will need to punt approximately 956 bugs in order to be ready for 9.0 which as a rule of thumb mean 4 out of every 5 bugs we have needs to be moved out.

Eye-catchers:

1. Integrated Instant Google search
2. HTML5 updates
3. GPU acceleration

And going by what Anthony had said it seems like Chrome 9 will take more days and may go live only by end of 2010 or early 2011. (That isn’t too late…is it?  J)

Firefox 4 and its Never Ending Delay!

One side we see Google Chromium team  is fully pumped up and going smoothly with their strategy whereas on the other side Firefox team is working really slowly towards Firefox 4 release ( it reminds me of the Rabbit and Tortoise story, and you know which one is the rabbit and which one is tortoise, don’t you? J )

How much so? Well, they are lagging by over a month now (and still counting). According to the official schedule Mozilla should have shipped the seventh revision of Beta on September 17th, then Beta 8 on October 1st, and have the first Release Candidate (RC) by October 15th. Obviously, October 15th has come and gone but there’s no Firefox 4.0 RC to speak of.

There are also quite hefty volumes of work still to be done For Firefox 4.0. Just 10 days ago, Mozilla noted that it still had to resolve 17 blockers just to launch Beta 7, and over 510 blockers to get from Beta to RC. In total Mozilla needs to resolve some 901 blockers in order to wrap up Firefox 4.0 and have it delivered to end users.

Eye-catchers:

1. Chromicised and more browsing space.
2. Faster than old versions
3. Tab Candy feature

What else to say? Firefox is well behind its schedule and Firefox 4.0 will be out by end of 2010 or early 2011 (what a joke…. U got to be kidding me)

Hot on the plates,

• Chrome beats other browsers in HTML5 test!
• Firefox scored less in its own Kraken JavaScript benchmark
• Chrome 8 beta and Firefox 4 Beta 7 are releasing this week.

Conclusion:

Having said that all, the big question that still stands unanswered is, who will win this war? (I can hear someone saying its Chrome, well not yet, it’s a crazy world out there and anything can happen over a cup of coffee). But there is no answer for this. All browsers are unique in their own way. But with the release of Firefox 4 and Chrome 9 already, users are in a dilemma on which one to make as their default browser.

Which browser are you going to use? Will Chrome steal Firefox users or Firefox continues acquiring more space? Share your thoughts and let’s fight it out in the comment box below! Cheers!

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