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

By Nate Lanxon on 28 March 2008

A rundown on the latest versions of all the main browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Oh, and don't forget Flock!

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  • Prove me wrong commented on 08/09/2008 08:14

    They forgot to mention Opera comes with a built in torrent downloader. I think it's the only one.

  • apollo martinez commented on 06/09/2008 20:22

    opera 9.5 fastest ever experience than ie, ff, etc.

  • kiwiweb commented on 03/09/2008 11:13

    Am I the only one, another ****** browser to support and design/develop for. It is hard enough now with IE, FF, opera and Safari differences than now chrome. My head hurts!!!!!!!!

  • JF commented on 02/09/2008 15:11

    Opera 9.5 is great! I have tried FF3 IE7 and Safari, and I could say Opera is quite superior as far as footprint on my system and performance. It is alos very Sleek!

  • nk100680 commented on 01/09/2008 21:05

    IE is good for Corporate but MS has concentrated on other area's than browsing for sometime. I expect IE 8 to do better but I think FireFox is that far in front when it comes to add-ons (FoxMarks, Foxy Tunes etc etc) and performance over the others that it only going to grow. P.S - HATE with a passion that Safari gets installed when you install iTunes even if you uncheck the ****!

  • get2oops commented on 29/08/2008 02:44

    Guys/Girls..Firefox is strict browser .whatever tags of styling ie.in css and in javascript also are fix & they r following that..so they follow standard convension which good..IE is papulu browser watever present it accept..even px is not present,tag is outside style it take into considersation which is not good..caz its take more afford with time..now they realse IE8 which is strict support like firefox but they still work on it..so firefox is baap of IE8.

  • viper commented on 08/07/2008 15:10

    "IE is still the best"? Have you ever used any other browser? It's both ugly, and full of problems

  • anonomous commented on 07/07/2008 09:18

    i have IE 7 and i think it is great... i dont think that i will be changing to any of the other becuase IE is works for me...

  • remy215 commented on 05/07/2008 20:02

    opera 9.5 rocks

  • Patrick commented on 17/06/2008 09:20

    I have always hated IE, so that is the lowest for me. Above that I like safari. Then I like opera and Firefox about the same. I use firefox, because, 1 it is open source, and 2, It comes preinstalled with ubuntu. Yes, I am a linux fan

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