New search engine Evri (pronounced Ev–ree) made it’s first public beta debut last week. Think of Evri as the Internet by way of Amazon Suggest. For every one page you frequent, Evri suggests three that you might like. Although it is a new and somewhat buggy, Envi is a truly new and original way to try something new.

In web browsing news, Mozilla has released yet another update to Firefox 3. Firefox 3.0.3 fixes some high risk security flaws that had put some users in serious danger. These updates are pushed automatically to current users, forcing them to upgrade as soon as possible. It’s nice to see a company react to a security situation in such a timely fashion.

Sticking with browsers for a moment, it seems as if the hype surrounding Google Chrome is starting to die down. According to internet traffic measuring company Net Applications, Chrome’s market share dropped from a high of one percent three weeks ago 0.77%. Many analysts, including Net Application vice president Vince Vizzaccaro, believe that Chrome’s slow slide downwards is due to Google’s promotion, or rather, lack thereof. “The only marketing effort I’ve seen from Google is in sponsored links,” said Vizzaccaro in an interview with tech blog Computerworld. “On Google, Chrome is naturally the top sponsored link. On Yahoo, it was second. And on Windows Live, I couldn’t even find it in the first five pages of organic results.”

Despite the slide, Chrome still seems to be taking a small but noticable chunk out of the other major browsers. Internet Explorer market share slipped 0.91% in the month of September, from 72.39% to 71.48%. Firefox and Opera also took a slight hit, but not nearly as noticeable. Other than Chrome, the only major browser that has made strides is Safari, which saw a 0.45% increase. Vizzaccaro suspects that this increase is likely due to Chrome’s Windows-only status. “[Chrome] isn’t available on Mac OS X yet,” he says.

Even though the market share for Chrome is slipping, there are still some very loyal Chrome users out there. We here at the Free Line have two great applications for all of the Chrome fans out there.

Backup Chrome -Save your settings and move them to another computer. Handy if you don’t want to recreate your home page and bookmarks from scratch.

Iron - A German Chrome derivative that prevents Google from tracking your web usage for their own benefit. Due to the added security features measures found in Iron, Chrome’s Suggest feature has been disabled.