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Browser battle: IE 8 vs Opera 9.5 vs Safari vs Firefox 3

By Nate Lanxon on 28 March 2008

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It's up to your Web browser to make using the Internet easy and enjoyable -- it's arguably the most important piece of software you use.

As the Internet becomes more integral to daily life, the browser you use is of great importance to software companies too. That's why every major browser developer is working on new versions of their product.

Fortunately, they've all released early versions of their work -- that's betas to you -- for us to poke around and play with, so we can suggest fixes and improvements that could be made before the final version is released to the general public.

The four browsers in question are Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla's open-source Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 -- all in beta -- and the just-released Apple Safari 3.1 for Windows. All are free downloads and all try to offer something better than the competition.

With this furious battle for worldwide adoption, we've decided to put the most recent browser releases head-to-head to see which is looking to be the best, and why.

We're not benchmarking and we're not reviewing; we're simply using each browser as the average user would, to determine which we think is the coolest, which works best so far and which we expect to be the strongest offering to the general consumer.

So without further introduction, let the browser war begin. We'll start with Microsoft...

Topics: firefox, ie8, internet explorer, opera, safari, flock, browser, browse, beta, introduction

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Comments (65)

  • suresh commented on 23/09/2009 18:12 Report abuse

    OPERA is fastest browser in the universe

  • kalemer0 commented on 23/09/2009 12:55 Report abuse

    thnx for notice

  • Philosoraptor commented on 18/09/2009 15:03 Report abuse

    SO Opera for light browsing (like flash games on the couch) but for real business i like Firefox (there is a Speed Dial add on)

  • vic commented on 07/09/2009 01:43 Report abuse

    Opera is genius.

  • declinkz commented on 31/08/2009 20:16 Report abuse

    Firefox for me... It has a ton off add-on!

  • mohsinrashid49@yahoo.com commented on 27/08/2009 21:21 Report abuse

    EAST OR WEST OPERA IS THE BEST.FOR MORE COMMENTS HIT ME ON MOHSINRASHID49@yahoo.com

  • dante commented on 27/08/2009 17:35 Report abuse

    safari browser versi 4, the lightning speed browser i ever use

  • fauzi commented on 27/08/2009 17:30 Report abuse

    omg, did you see that ? safari speed ? even my dialup connection speed looks very fast

  • Albi commented on 26/08/2009 02:04 Report abuse

    IE8 is still the best for me, using always IE with all updates and stuff clean, fast and pretty easy with everything... MEM Usage: 20K - IE8 rocks \m/

  • Rosenrot commented on 20/08/2009 21:40 Report abuse

    Opera's the wineer,hands down,considering it's speed and speed dial,as if that was'nt enough,to top it all it has this ultra cool mouse gestures

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