Several new web browser versions have been released in the last days which made it important to benchmark the latest official versions and the latest development versions of Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Opera to see how the browsers compare to each other. All browsers were installed on a Windows XP Service Pack [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, ie, Opera

Cnet ran some tests on the JavaScript performance of selected browsers like the latest Firefox version, Firefox beta and Google Chrome builds. JavaScript performance was in the news since Google and the Mozilla Firefox development team announced improvements in JavaScript performance. Cnet used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark to test browser performance of the browsers. There [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, ie, Opera

That’s at least what Sam Allen discovered who used a software that he programmed to record memory usage of processes in Windows. He tested Safari 3.1 along with Firefox 3, Opera 9.5, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 and Flock and discovered a huge gap between Safari and the other four browsers. His application recorded the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Opera

In a recently released research paper Stefan Frei, Thomas Dübendorfer, Gunter Ollmann and Martin May analyzed Google Search Engine logs between January 2007 and June 2008 to understand the web browser threat. The research paper brought up some interesting figures including worldwide browser usage, number of users with the latest version of the browser and [...]

Categories: Firefox, ie, Opera, Security, The Web

I got an email yesterday from the Cooliris Team who have published a new version of Piclens, a browser extension that is available for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. The new version added several interesting new features, among them support for Firefox 3 and Youtube 3D browsing support. The Youtube addition is probably the biggest [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Online Services

Big news all around the Internet that a nightly build of Webkit and an internal build of Opera have passed the Acid 3 test. Users who favor one of the browsers now fight over the right to state that their browser passed it before the other which is in my opinion completely irrelevant. Who cares [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Opera

I just read the story over at Cybernet News and thought it was worth commenting on. Apple apparently found a way to increase the market share of its Safari web browser by bundling it with its popular iTunes software. They report a new version of Safari when a user searches in iTunes for updates. This [...]

Categories: Browsing, Software, The Web, Tools

Is my browser secure ? That’s a question that I hear and read day in day out from users throughout the country. It seems that new security vulnerabilities are discovered each day which adds to this uncertainty. They could be vulnerable even if they use the latest version of Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Safari because those browsers tend to get updated less often than vulnerabilities are discovered.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, ie, Opera