Weekly roundup of browser related news covering Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari.

Microsoft’s Browser Ballot screen asks users to set Internet Explorer as default browser if users use a different browser than IE as default system browser, when users open the Browser ballot application.

Sputnik test is an open source project, which allows users in determining how standards compliant their browser is.

5 out of 7 ‘secondary’ browsers featuring in Browser Ballot Screen use Microsoft’s Trident rendering engine. Google Chrome gets support for geolocation APIs, and Firefox Personas are coming to add-on gallery soon.

In most other web browsers, you can highlight any word or phrase on a web page, then right click on it and search for it using a search engine. Internet Explorer seems to be missing this feature. I’ll show you how add this feature to Internet Explorer.

A browser ballot screen displaying alternative browsers to choose from is Microsoft’s solution for the antitrust cases against them by the EU. The case has been closed, browser ballot screen has gone live, group wants it to go globe. They never rest do they?

Do you have favorite websites that you’d like to search using the built-in search box in your web browser? You can create custom searches for Internet Explorer and add them to your pull down menu next to the search box. Here are the details and some tricks you may not find anywhere else.

Browser Saturday: Firefox among 25 tech that changed the decade. Arora is alive and fighting. Will Chrome remove a Flash extension? And Microsoft to display Browser Ballot soon.

Ie SurfGear is an Internet Explorer add-in which lets you increase the font size, remove dark background colors and background images from web pages, giving you a clutter free and easy to read environment.

The number of downloads of Firefox as well as Opera surged in Germany after the Government advised against using Internet Explorer.

Digia @Web is a modern and touch controllable, web browser for mobile devices. Digia @Web is currently available for Symbian s60 5th edition and Maemo mobile devices for free.

Analysis of browser and mobile operating system market share report released by Net Applications.

European Union has decided to drop the anti-trust complaint pending against Microsoft after the later promised to bundle upto 12 alternate browsers with Windows.

The IE Tab extension for Google Chrome will allow you to render sites in Internet Explorer engine from within Google Chrome. This extension can come in pretty handy when you want to visit websites which only work well in IE, but don’t want to disrupt your browsing session.

Microsoft’s next generation web browser Internet Explorer 9, will make its debut at CES 2010, according to reports from Neowin and CNET. The browser which will be the successor to IE8 will include several exciting features including HTML5 support, according to Ray Ozzie, the Chief Software Architect at Microsoft.