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A new app dubbed QuickGoogle allows users of the jailbroken iPhones and iPads to invoke Google search at any time from any place of the OS.

Now users won’t have to go back to the home page, open the browser, select the search bar. Using any Activator option - pressing either slide in the status line, or the Home button, or shaking the iPhone – they can call the special query box.

Pressing the Google button a user activates Safari browser with the search results.

Mozilla claims that its browser has the fastest SunSpider scores on the planet after its internal tests revealed that the company’s latest Firefox JavaScript engine — which includes the new JagerMonkey extension — outperforms both Google Chrome's V8 engine and Apple Safari's Nitro. The tests, apparently excluded Opera and Internet Explorer. Director of community development Asa Dotzler made the claim on Monday morning with a blog post.

While the new Firefox engine trails Chrome on Google's V8 benchmarks Mozilla has reached a milestone nonetheless.

According to the latest data from StatCounter by Pingdom Google’s web browser experienced high growth catching up to Firefox this year. Over the past 12 months Chrome’s market share rose from 3.7 percent in September of 2009 to 11.5% by September this year.

As the graph shows Safari, Opera, and "Other" even taken together cannot match Google’s brainchild.

As Microsoft released its new Hotmail service last week a great number of complaints have been posted on the forums since then. Users express their utmost dissatisfaction with the new interface. In light of these events the Redmond company advised its consumers to access email accounts via Google Chrome browser in order to successfully connect to the upgraded service.

According to a new research four major browsers fail to remove users’ personal information even when they browse in a private mode. While privacy settings provided by the browsers should supposedly allow users to visit a website without leaving any trace on their computers, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari frequently leave tracks, according to the research, which is scheduled to be presented at next week's Usenix Security Symposium in Washington DC.

The first website was launched to jailbreak Apple’s iOS 4 to allow users easily hack their iPhones so as to make any changes they want. Comes launched the website JailbreakMe.com which when visited from an iOS device allows you to jailbreak it. The website can be accessed from the mobile version of Safari browser.

Mozilla has announced the introduction of a web service that allows users of different browsers including Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, and Safari to check whether plugins for their web surfing applications are up-to-date and don’t contain bugs or vulnerabilities.

By coming to the page http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ a user can see the report that shows the analysis of all the installed plugins. As it appears some of the plugins are still in research stage by Mozilla and there is no firm conclusion of whether they are safe or not.

Microsoft has updated its Internet Explorer 9 preview in line with its promise to introduce updates to the app every eight weeks until releases the official public beta version of the platform. But the timetable for the release has not been specified again.

"The Platform Preview continues to be the thinnest possible wrapper around the Web platform, and as such is not intended for general purpose browsing," cautioned Dean Hachamovich, the browser team's general manager, in an entry on the IE blog today.