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...
Penguin30
30/03/2008 08:49 PM
IE is still the best dont care what you say
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firefox is better
31/03/2008 07:09 PM
This article is very true 99% of people who have tried firefox and ie say that firefox is better
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presario
01/05/2008 03:59 AM
I have tried Netscape, IE, Firefox and Safari, and I rate them as follows, Netscape 8.1 Because it is built on firefox code, but you can display pages as though you were in internet explorer, or firefox without restarting. Firefox Because of its stability and code, the browser is inpenetrable Safari because there are features in safari that i have yet to find in other browsers IE because even though this browser is fairly good, it is not because of its code. IE has the most leaks out of all the browsers, and till IE 7 came along, you were better off with Netscape 4.0 litterally.
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Opera Wiki
05/05/2008 07:08 AM
i go for Opera, its all in the package. no need to install addon made by who :) and FF always has core problems, too many crash, memory eatting too much... speed hack needed, addon to do the job right... another words it doesnt come standard!
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Fox
17/05/2008 09:23 PM
Opera 9.5 finally has the large improvement of focusing on the tab to the right when you close one rather than the last viewed. They didn't include the ability to focus on the one to the left, though. And if you want to move to a new version, it doesn't even try to take settings from your last install. The article specifically said memory magagement in FF3 was much improved. Either some of you guys are talking about the current release versions or didn't read the article.
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Fox
17/05/2008 10:25 PM
Nevermind, Opera does import settings.
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Patrick
17/06/2008 09:20 AM
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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remy215
05/07/2008 08:02 PM
opera 9.5 rocks
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anonomous
07/07/2008 09:18 AM
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...
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viper
08/07/2008 03:10 PM
"IE is still the best"? Have you ever used any other browser? It's both ugly, and full of problems
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