• GMail is faster elsewhere Google’s Chrome, recently upgraded to version 1.0, apparently runs the popular GMail service at much faster speeds. So does Firefox. And IE7. And Safari. And Opera. And so on …
• Google plays hardball GMail recently removed IE6 from its list of supported browsers and put a page on the menu bar targeting those users. Google says that upgrading would “make Google Mail run an average of twice as fast.”
• IE6’s business baseInternet Explorer has built its sizable market share due to the glacial pace of businesses upgrading their browsers. On weekends, the browser’s share goes down considerably. Coincidence? We think not. source

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