There has been plenty of speculation about Google's motivation to guarantee Mozilla nearly $1 billion in a 3-year advertising contract that covers the search box in Firefox.

Internet Explorer will now auto-update to the latest version if auto updating is enabled in Windows Update.

Google has just added updated its stable browser channel. Version 16 takes the profile manager live and adds enhancements to the syncing.

Google has surpassed Mozilla in browser share, according to StatCounter. Chrome jumped to 25.69 percent in November, while Firefox dropped to 25.23 percent. Microsoft's IE gained slightly and ended up at 40.63 percent.

One of the major new developments for Chrome is the Aura window manager that will enable Google to offer a much richer interface to its Chrome and Chrome OS users. For a first look, check out a brief video below.

Google just added an incremental garbage collector (GC) to the nightly and developer builds of its Chromium and Chrome web browsers.

Google just released the stable version of Chrome 15. There are plenty of security fixes and the new tab page sans bookmarks is now live.

There is a new feature that has just popped up in the Webkit snapshot releases of future Chrome versions, also known as Chromium releases. Chromium 17 includes an HTTP Pipelining flag.

Google has begun rolling out SSL to its search engine, much like its Gmail service. A win for privacy... sort of.

Google's web browser is continuing to attract users for its web browser at a fast pace.