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Is Google the most preferred Internet brand in India ? It seems like that as Google services are dominating in India by more percentage compared to its worldwide levels.

Google is the undisputed leader in Search Engine world but in India Google’s market share is more compared to other major countries.

Similarly in Social Networking Indians prefer Orkut, but internationally it is dominated by Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc.

Now the latest trend is Google Chrome (google’s own browser) is gaining popularity among Indians.

As per the statistics by statcounter.com 11.32% of its users from India used Google chrome to browse the web in December 2009, compared to 5.3% worldwide.

Both in India and worldwide Internet Explorer is still the leader in Browser Space but it lost  17.8% market share in last 12 months.

Firefox is still growing in India and Internationally and registered a 27% year to year growth.

Source: StatCounterStats – Browser Market Share in India

Google Chrome reported massive growth last year – 338% growth worldwide and 189% in India.

Another major change happened in Dec 09 in browser space is Firefox 3.5 surpassed all major browser versions including long dominated IE versions and reached World’s Most Popular Browser position, a major achievement for Firefox and Mozilla.

In operating system section still Windows XP leads with 65% market share, but down 11 points in 1 year period.

In last 2 months Windows 7 doubled its market share and gaining momentum.

In Mobile Browser section Opera Browser is leading followed by iPhone Browser and Nokia Browser, obviously due to the popularity of Apple iPhone and smarphones from Nokia.

In the Mobie Operating System space SymbionOS and iPhone OS are far ahead compared to RIM, Sony Ericsson and other mobile operating systems.

For full details about Operating System, Browser, Mobile OS, Mobile Browser, Search engine, Mobile Search and Mobile/Desktop Comparison visit http://gs.statcounter.com/

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Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome ask you to remember passwords when you enter a form on a web page.

It is not advised to save password in the browser especially for highly sensitive data like bank account login password and email passwords especially if you are using a shared computer or browsing center.

In Internet Explorer it is easy to recover password with third party utilities like IE PassView. So it is better to ‘uncheck’ the remember password option in Internet Explorer.

In Firefox you can protect all stored passwords with a Master Password.

Click on Tools->Options and tick the “Use Master Password” checkbox under the Security Tab and specify a Master Password.

So Firefox will ask for Master Password each time when it has to apply a saved password in a form and also asks the master password when somebody try to open the password manager.

But this also not fully foolproof as your password is stored in a file. Even though it is encrypted chances are there that with the help of some malware programs malicious codes a hacker may break that file. Or if somebody gets your master password then you will loose all your passwords.

If you forget your master password in firefox then you can reset it with this

chrome://pippki/content/resetpassword.xul

Just type this in your firefox address bar to reset the Master Password. But remember if you reset the master password then firefox will remove all stored password, forms data, personal certificates, private keys etc associated with that master password.

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