What's New With IE, Firefox, Opera

prostoalex writes "The Web browser market hasn't seen the competition heat up for a while, but things are getting quite exciting, PC World reports. The magazine looks into the latest features that are incorporated into Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla Foundation's Firefox and Opera Software's Opera. From the article: "We took Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1, Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1, and Opera 9 Preview 1 out for a spin. Both the Firefox beta and the Opera beta are available for download, although Opera isn't publicizing this early testing version; the browsers' final editions should be out around the time you read this. On the other hand, the IE 7 beta will not be available for downloading until early next year.""

It seems to me,

[BattleRat]

that the most compelling argument to NOT use Firefox in favor of IE died when the "IE Tab" extension came out. Everything you need is now within your reach with Firefox. You have no excuse now...

Re:Opera

[John_Booty]

I told DarkSin here that I am not about to port LeetKey to Opera because I am not using it at the moment, I may just have to do that if I decide to switch to that browser if I feel that FF is just not what I want to see as a browser.

Okay. Fair enough. Let's see what "LeetKey" is...

LeetKey is similar to Russ Key... this extension allows typing and transliterating English into 1337 and other encoding schemes such as ROT13, Base64, HEX, URL etc. For some encodings this extension will translate the text back into English

Wow. What a blow it will be to Firefox if you drop active development of that. Christ.

Re:Avant Browser

[P0ldy]

Can't say I've ever used "Avant" before, but...everything you've said is available in most other browsers, AFAIK.

You're wrong there. Avant has some features only available in IE, which makes it pretty special. From their FAQ [avantbrowser.com]:

Is Avant Browser a secure browser?

Yes, Avant Browser is secure. Since it's based on Internet Explorer, Avant Browser is as secure as Internet Explorer.

I'm getting tired of this

[yootje]

They are only browsers! A piece of software where you can check out websites with! They are not that important, you see. Dude.

Re:What competition?

[theapodan]

Actually, with Opera's "wand" feature, you can fill in the blanks much easier than with firefox's comparable feature.

Re:Whatever

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

I would probably get flame for saying this.

MS DOS is more stable than DR DOS.

Seriously, I use them both equally and, frankly, MS DOS crashes once per day while DR DOS crashes _at least_ twice a day. Compare to MS DOS, where Windows 3.11 loads perfectly on it, DR DOS takes forever to load it _and still reqiuires config.sys gymnastics_, AND squeeze every last bit of ram out of my machine.

I have to restart DR DOS once per hour or else my comp freezes like a banana in the mid-winter Arctic.

Yes this is a rant, so please, Digital Research, do something about your horrible WFW incompatibilities that existed for as long as I could remember.

*Burn karma burn baby*

PS. Use a non-shit OS, retard.

take what you can get

[wardk]

On the other hand, the IE 7 beta will not be available for downloading until early next year.""

good to see microsoft is upgrading the internet soon, we get to read about firefox and opera in a mainstream rag

Re:Regardless of which.....

[VagaStorm]

You expected msn.com to be w3c compliant? *sight* I can almost remember when I was that young and naive.

Re:Shouldn't be that complicated

[Kelson]

As far as browsers that implement features outside the standard, I don't understand why the purists would want to count that against the browser's compliancy status.

You haven't read many arguments over ActiveX, have you?

Re:safari!!!

[PitaBred]

And this is what happens to your children when they use Macs... please, parents, don't allow your kids to become like this.

Mac. Just say NO(tm).

Re:Whatever

[Anonymous Coward]

Try going through 500 +150kb jpg/gif files and ~10 +1mb flashes _per hour_.

Perhaps laying off of the porn is what you really need