For the first time Chrome Beats Firefox on Webmonkey.com

Once the darling of the tech set, Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is no longer the perennially #2 underdog of the web.

According to StatCounter, a web analytics company tracking browser market share, Google Chrome has overtaken Mozilla Firefox to become the second most used web browser in the world.

For the first time Chrome also managed to beat out Firefox to become the most used web browser among both Wired.com and Webmonkey.com readers.

StatCounter claims that for November 2011 Chrome accounted for 25.69 percent of browsers on the web...

Frogmouths are not especially cheerful-looking birds. During the day, these nocturnal avians mostly look like feathery bumps on a log. The first one I ever saw, perching in the Bronx Zoo’s aquatic bird house, was so stock still and serious-looking that for a moment it seemed as if the keepers had simply placed an inanimate representation of the bird behind glass.

Of course, frogmouths probably look so strange to me because there is nothing quite like them in North America. Today these peculiar birds are found in a swath of tropical habitats from India through southeast Asia to Australia. But...