Mozilla Firefox used be our go-to web browser for a really long time. It was released in September of 2002 and people who used the internet went to this web browser for their daily surfing. Google released its own web browser called the Google Chrome in 2008, and since then there has been no looking back for this browser as the success it was able to achieve in a really short amount of time is something which hasn’t yet been observed from any other browser. Microsoft released its web browser called Microsoft Edge in 2015 for Windows 10, in 2017 for Android and IOS devices and for macOS in 2019. Then finally it was released as a preview for Linux in October of 2020.
If there is any browser that was able to compete up to Google Chrome, then it has to be Microsoft Edge. Mozilla Firefox lost its thunder soon as Google Chrome started to rise, even though Firefox was used by many users worldwide, the web browser wasn’t able to come to Google Chromes level. Microsoft Edge too started off with a bang giving a tough competition to Google Chrome, but according to recent reports, Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox are losing their market share, and Google Chrome is apparently having a major increase in its market shares. Google Chrome has never for once taken a break, the browser has always come up with new and innovative features that attracts majority of the users online. Hence the ever increasing results always.
StatCounter published the market share data for the month of April of this year. According to the data it can be seen that Google Chrome is a browser that hasn’t dropped a single percent in its market share, the web browser had around 67.55 percent of desktop browser market share, an increase from 67.14 percent which the browser observed in March 2021. Edge saw decrease with 8.03 percent in March, the market share dropped to 7.96 percent in April, and Firefox went from 7.95 percent in March to 7.78 percent. Safari which is the web browser made specifically for macOS, dropped from 10.11 percent in March to 9.85 percent in April.
Safari remains the second most used browser followed by Microsoft Edge as the third most used browser. The data shows how much Google Chrome represents the market share and this speaks high volumes as to the user experience which Google Chrome is able to bring for its users.
Twitter is one of the biggest micro-blogging platforms in the world where many users can also run their business, learn something, and create content for others. This could be great news for the content creators that Twitter has officially introduced the next stage of its creator’s payment program in the form of a new feature “Tip Jar” in which users will be able to send money or donate to their favorite influencers as a mean to support their efforts that they put in while making the content. However, only a few accounts are able yet to receive the money from the users, but the users who are using this platform in the English language can now send their funds to their favorite accounts.
Twitter decided to test this feature in favor of creators because they were linking their PayPal accounts and adding $Cashtags and Venmo handles with their profile so that people support them financially. The idea is beyond just becoming a follower or tweeting or liking their accounts. Other platforms like YouTube have also this feature in which the subscribers can donate the creators through Super Chat while they are live streaming, and this is the best idea to support their work. Many youngsters are getting inspiration to create their own content, especially during the quarantine situation.
This feature will be rolled out on mobile apps of Android and iOS devices and this will be easy to use. In the beginning, only a selected group including creators, journalists, and non-profits can turn on the Tip Jar feature to accept the donations from the users. To turn this feature on, you can go to the option of Edit Profile on Twitter for iOS and Android app, then click the Tip Jar feature, and then go to the setting, tap on the allow tips on and then select the third-party service that you would like to get. But one thing you must keep in mind that when you try to add a third-party payment service to your profile, your username on that service will be publicly connected to the account of Twitter.
There are some issues that are highlighted by Rachel Tobac that sending funds through PayPal using the feature of Tip jar currently permits whoever is sending the money to see the recipient’s address, which is fretting security issue that PayPal and Twitter will solve soon. The support center of Twitter accepted the issue and tweeted that it was updating our tipping prompt and Help center to make it transparent that other apps may share information between people sending or receiving the funds are as per the terms.
With the massive success and popularity TikTok has gotten forced other applications to launch a similar feature on their applications and then Instagram came up with its Reels while YouTube started testing its own version called Shorts.
Shorts on YouTube are small 60 seconds video that can be uploaded by any channel and while the feature was previously only available in India with a specific camera option for shorts on the application along with a few selected creators in the US as well. However, the popularity of shorts has increased because looking at a data from YouTube it was revealed that Shorts were generating 6.5 billion daily views, a substantial uptick over the 3.5 billion daily views that the feature was generating in late January.
Looking at this data, YouTube realizes that their version of Shorts is doing impeccably well and therefore the company has announced through its Creator Insider channel that TikTok competitor Shorts will roll out to all creators in the U.S. as of next week.
Though previously any user could upload a short traditional vertical videos that were less than 60 seconds long, regardless of having the full feature like Indian creators the few creators in US just by using the hashtag #Shorts in the titles or description boxes the full feature does have its own advantages.
The full roll out in the entire US Region means that the creators will have a complete access to the vertical camera along with a full suite of proprietary editing tools.
Apart from this, YouTube has also announced some new tools in its Shorts feature which will be launching really soon. These include the ability to record for 60 seconds though there are speculations that if you record a video with music from the YouTube library the recording will be capped at 15 seconds, though how true is this will only be confirmed once this feature is launched. Apart from this, color-correcting filters that will live both within the recording and editing screens; and auto-generated or self-supplied, manual captions are also being launched.
The company in order to make Shorts more discoverable and easy to be accessed by the users is also bringing along changes in the mobile app of YT where a new “Shorts” tab will be added at the bottom of its mobile home screen alongside ‘Home’, the create button, ‘Subscriptions’, and ‘Library’ as well as Shorts will replace the ‘Explore’ tab, YouTube says, which will now appear as the first bubbled topic at the top of the home feed.
The company says that they will help users in getting to know about the changes made in their app and getting used to it through in app notification every week.
Shorts have proven to be a great feature for YouTube and the company has a lot of expectations from it. We cannot wait to see when the tech giant will launch this feature globally.
Facebook has a couple of applications under its umbrella and the company makes sure to do justice to every single one them by introducing new tools and features and bringing about new updates. The tech giant has a huge following and it understands that people rely on its resources for a variety of purposes online and therefore makes sure to work hard in their maintenance.
Recently, news has popped in that Facebook in introducing several new features for two of its main applications, precisely known as Instagram and Messenger. While the list of new features is a little long one of the main features among them has to be the new addition of the seen states on Instagram. This new feature allows user to check the progress of their messages that whether or not the person you have sent the message has viewed your text or not by just taking a look at your DM inbox.