Controversial file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has released its own web browser which claims to avoid ISP blockers and provide links to sites restricted in the UK.

It seems that the era of users abandoning Internet Explorer in favour of other browsers is at an end. Microsoft’s most recent edition of their popular, if often criticised, browser has enjoyed growing market shares that have doubled twice since it’s Windows 7 release in late February.

Internet Explorer 10 was originally specific to Windows 8, but was released for Windows 7 earlier this year. This new backwards compatibility could have played a large role in increasing Microsoft’s market share in the browser war, as Internet Explorer 10’s fortunes were slow to begin with.

Mozilla, the not-for-profit organisation behind we browser Firefox, have become the latest company to be penalised by Google.

Mozilla have snapped up a new global director of marketing in John Bernard to help launch a new Firefox mobile platform.