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Via engadget.com

An analysis done by Microsoft between Google Chrome 2.0, Firefox 3.0 and Internet Explorer 8 shows that IE8 wins in 7 out of 10 categories, while 3 are draw.

So let’s analyze the categories.

Security. No browser is 100% secure, even the Chrome sandbox that separates your browser from the operating system. Unless they count the fact that IE introduced anti-phishing before other browsers.

Privacy. Somehow agreed, InPrivate mode makes a difference.

Ease of Use. Just to begin, not even an IE veteran will find the reload and stop buttons as dumb being away from the back and forward buttons as possible, also no easy way to modify user interface.

Web Standards. IE8 is the first version that passes the Acid2 test but gets the lowest percentage of any browser in Acid3 test.

Developer tools. It just beats the awesomeness of Firebug, Dragonfly and Web Inspector combined. Right…

Reliability. You can trust that IE8 will rarely crash. However, if it does, the whole browser will crash, nothing compared to the tabs isolation of Chrome, something every browser should follow.

Customizability. I love IE add-ons such as adware, spyware and malware they just make my browsing experience so much better.

Compatibility. Many websites were developed “IE only, need I say more?

Manageability. Not much to argue here.

Performance. All browsers performance is somehow pretty much identical, Microsoft says.

Via Genbeta.com [Spanish]

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Of course, you can always BrowserShots.org if screenshot is more than enough.

How were the calculations done?

As he explains: “The best method we’ve come up with is to count the number of security “pings” we get in one day. (Firefox pings a Mozilla server for security changes about once per day) and multiply that active daily users number by three to get active monthly users. (See John’s blog post for more on this.)”

Although data is not 100% accurate, is can still give you an insight on Firefox users count.

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While there are more than 40 of them total (in YouTube Chrome Channel), here is a list of 11 featured ones for you to check.

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After seeing plenty of web browsers benchmark results on Windows platform, I have decided to test them myself on Linux instead. In the first part we will be using the most popular JavaScript benchmark: Sunspider.

Testing environment

Hardware:
AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-60 (2 GHZ, dual core)
3 GB RAM

Software:
Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.04 (Hardy Heron), 32 bit (up to date).

Tested Browsers:
Firefox 3.0.7, Firefox 3.0.8, Epiphany 2.22.2, Galeon 2.0.4, Midori 0.0.17, Opera 10 Alpha Build 4214, Crossover Chromium Developer Build 21.

Due to issues with Konqueror 4.0.3 (was getting the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)), I was not able to finish testing it.

The tests were ran once on a cold startup, cleared cache and no background applications running.

I have decided tu put Firefox 3.0.7 and 3.0.8 because I noticed a decline in speed from an earlier version.

Here are the results:
Browser Accuracy (+-)
Firefox 3.07 (6.70%)
Firefox 3.08 (6.80%)
Epiphany 2.22.2 (8.50%)
Galeon 2.0.4 (2.80%)
Midori 0.0.17 (8.00%)
Opera alpha 10 build 4214 (6.90%)
Crossover Chromium Developer build 21 (7.20%)

After seeing results, it’s quite clear that Chromium wins big by outperforming Galeon by more than 4x times and it’s closest competitor Epiphany by 2x.

I ran the test again with some browsers and I got way different results. For example: Opera getting 9694.0 instead of 11780.6 but with Turbo enabled or Firefox geting 6721 instead of 7319.

Click here for the browsers results (.txt)

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Click to install (Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 only)

Learn more.

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You can download windows build here (no need to install).
And the SVCsetup application, so it can work on XP.

Here is a demo used to try it out.
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However, Chrome Wndows build was 2x faster than Chromium pre-alpha for Linux.

In case you want to try it, feel free to download debian packages from here.

“Just to be clear, this is NOT Crossover Chromium, but native Linux builds of chromium.”

Via LinuxHaxor.net

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