A Cheat Sheet To All the Browser Betas

Harry writes "I can't remember another time when there were so many Web browsers in prerelease form — 2009 should be a really, really good year for final browser versions. I have posted a quick recap of the state of the upcoming versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari." It is nice to see a healthy market of competition driving innovation in a market that has been largely stagnant in recent history. What do other folks see on the scorecard?

Acid

[ojintoad]

I judge all my browsers on Acid; my scorecard is a a blur of dinosaurs dancing, blue e's laughing, and JZW laughing at me. And I'm eating a lot of delicious delicacies.

Google Chrome browser

[Dareth]

Reasons not to download it: ...you can't get the Google Toolbar for it.

Surely this should have been in the "Reasons to download it" it section!

Re:Whom is the better?

[moderatorrater]

Depends on your tastes. If you like minimalism, try Chrome. If you like tons of features and don't mind a heavy footprint, get firefox + plugins. If you like apple, try Safari. If you like leather and ball gags, try IE.

Re:Google Chrome browser

[WingCmdr]

Is anyone expecting Google to ever leave beta?

Re:galeon?

[exley]

Yet still galeon is my favorite browser. I have like 200 tabs in it, while in opera I have just about 30 tabs...

If you like tabs, you may be interested in another feature a lot of browsers have. Depending on the browser, it goes by various names -- "bookmarks," "favorites," et al. Check it out sometime!

Re:Whom is the better?

[couchslug]

"If you like leather and ball gags, try IE."

They added a newsreader?

Re:Whom is the better?

[Anonymous Coward]

Isn't the acid test a test for how well you cope with broken and non-standard code?

Re:Whom is the better?

[Anonymous Coward]

There's plenty of free extensions to IE! I can add smiley faces to my email with a simple IE extension, and I can get a nice search bar from 1800search. That little gorilla search buddy makes my day. The only downside [answers.com]is it makes the browser so small it's hard to view websites.

Re:galeon?

[TheRaven64]

Bookmarks come from the same school of thought that says you should quit applications. They are a work around for the fact that your operating system can't handle resources properly and that your browser doesn't handler persistence properly.