9 Browsers Compared For Speed and Features 363
notthatwillsmith writes "Counting public betas and release candidates, there are a whopping nine different web browsers out today with enough market share to be considered mainstream. Maximum PC explains the differences between the browsers, future and present, so that you can make a more informed decision about the primary tool you use to browse the web. From the rendering engines used to the features that set the different browsers apart, this is a comprehensive, blow-by-blow battle between Safari 3, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Opera 9.6, Google Chrome, Firefox 3.1, IE 8, Safari 4, and Opera 10."
Re:hmm (Score:5, Informative)
Or so many pages, so little time, so here is link to the "print" page -- one page with all the text and pictures and no ads. [maximumpc.com]
PS. Mods, if you are tempted to downmod this post as redundant because there is a similar post above mine in your listing, please check times of posting first.
Re:Fed up with Firefox (Score:3, Informative)
* Tired of opt-out upgrades.
about:config
app.update.enabled = false
* Awesomebar is awful not awesome
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = 0
* Firefox 3 includes "security" functionality
Well "generally" people prefer not to lose their credit card numbers and such.
* Somehow infected with pop-up window Spyware
... which is why you "probably" shouldn't have disabled the security features, or been using firefox 1.
have you ever looked into coding an extension for FF? It's horrid horrid stuff
And it's better than any other browser.
So basically you have no real complaints about firefox... which is why your post is troll.
Re:IE7 Rules! (Score:3, Informative)
Um, anyone know where the Linux version of IE7 is?
It is here: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page [tatanka.com.br]
Re:Fed up with Firefox (Score:5, Informative)
Sounds like somebody got busted with the pr0n.
It's ok buddy, I hear they are implementing an Incognito setting in the next release.
Nothing to do with porn. I don't surf porn anywhere that I can be busted for it. Basically there's nothing I haven't seen that's worth my job.
Everything to do with professionalism at work. When I'm demonstrating something at work, I do NOT need links to remote control aircraft sites, local newspapers, slashdot, chess sites or the like coming up. I do not need my colleagues to know which bank I am with. (We are permitted to use work computers for personal use within reason). I just don't understand why I should have to show everyone who walks by bookmarks I might not have visited in 4 years! It hasn't caused problems yet, but I don't understand why upgrading my browser should subject me to this!!!
Re:Lynx? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:9 Browsers compared (Score:5, Informative)
I'm right. I'll make a revision for you: (Score:3, Informative)
Netscape's source was released in 1997. Mozilla 1.0 was released in the middle of 200s. During those 5 years, Internet Explorer 6 strangled innovation on the web. We're still far from free of its legacy.
Also, I understand the history of the Mozilla project. I've been pedantic about their history here before [slashdot.org].
Oops. 2002, even. (Score:3, Informative)
Mozilla 1.0 was released in the middle of 2002.
Hey whippersnapper (Score:3, Informative)
How can you talk about the "early days of the WWW" without realizing that Netscape Communicator (which you obviously reference when mentioning that "people would be creators and communicators")and other in-browser editors were middle-age for the Internet?
Those days, to me, are when browsers really began to get too bloated.
And I'm still a few years from 30. I wonder what the 30 year-old geezers on here think of your comment.
Re:You idea gave us MySpace (Score:3, Informative)
Also, this function has been taken over by wysiwyg javascript editors in the website itself which is a reason the next bullet will go to the guy who thought this up.
That would be the "contentEditable" attribute. That's - ha! - Microsoft.
Re:Different OS (Score:4, Informative)
It is a shame they did not do Firefox on Linux, Firefox on windows XP and Firefox on windows Vista, all on the same hardware. It would have been interesting to see how the underlying OS affects the performance of the browser. Then further compare IE on Vista vs Firefox on Ubuntu.
While hard numbers would be useful, it's painfully clear to anyone who's used it on both platforms that Firefox on windows is far faster than Firefox on linux. Try opening a bunch of tabs and see how sluggish it is on linux to switch between them or close one.
Personally, I blame GTK2's obsession with double buffering everything. I recall GTK1-based seamonkey builds being quite a bit faster than Firefox when they first switched FF over to GTK2. Of course you'd be mad to even install GTK1 these days, but the performance issues really need to be addressed. If I could get Konqueror without all the KDE baggage I would, for the brief time I used KDE it was always snappy and responsive.
Re:The next Firefox release (Score:4, Informative)
Update: Mike Beltzner, Firefox product lead, clarifies that despite what the meeting notes may have suggested, the version bump is not a final decision at this point.
Content Blocker (Score:4, Informative)
AdBlock? What about Opera's Content Blocker and urlfilter.ini?
Re:You idea gave us MySpace (Score:1, Informative)
It's also what gives us things like Wikipedia.
Yeah, Opera does have good Adblock (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ [fanboy.co.nz]
Nice list & style, works just as good as FF Adblock for blocking, somewhat better for hiding empty spaces.