Microsoft’s Internet Explorer may still hold dominant market share in the web browser arena, but it is quickly fading against strong competition from Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The IE browser has been much maligned for its lack of support for web standards and its poor performance against the competition.
Yesterday, the company launched IE9 Platform Preview 3 at an event in San Francisco. Surprisingly Microsoft’s presentation focused almost exclusively on how IE9 beats its competitors, Chrome (
) 5 and Firefox (
) 3.6.4. They ran test after test showing off its processing capabilities. What came up the most though was hardware acceleration: IE9 utilizes DirectX 10 to make far better use of the hardware.And trust me the results admiited were striking
Could IE9 finally be the iteration that turns Internet Explorer’s (
) woes and horrendous reputation around? I leave it up to you to decide.Status : Launching Date Awaited
Mozilla 3.6.4
After some delays, Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.4, the newest version of the popular web browser. It comes with one big addition: protection against crashing due to third-party plugins, most notably Adobe Flash.
The updated browser comes with dozens of bug fixes and stability upgrades. What the average user will care about most though is Firefox (
) crash protection, something that is a prominent feature of Google Chrome ().
Crash protection utilizes out-of-process plugins technology to run third-party plugins (specifically Flash, Quicktime, and Silverlight) in a separate process. In the past, a plugin crash would take down your entire Firefox browser. With crash protection however, “the browser will stay running while the portions of websites controlled by the plugin will be disabled.” It only takes a refresh to restart the plugin.There is a catch, though: only Windows (
) and Linux () users have access to crash protection. According to Mozilla, making crash protection available to Mac OS X users would require major changes to Firefox’s infrastructure. However, the non-profit promises that it will become available for Mac users in Firefox 4, which should ship by the end of the year.Status : Download from here
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