Category: Browsers

  • Firefox 4 Beta 10 is out – it’s time to upgrade!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I downloaded Firefox 4 Beta 10 yesterday on my Mac. It was released just days after Beta 9 and I’m not sure what all the differences are between Beta 9 and Beta 10 are but I had been using Firefox 4 Beta 9 since it was released and I really liked it, so I downloaded…

  • Get off your high horse Ed!

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    There was a big bruhaha on the intertubes over the weekend when Apple ran its software update on Windows and offered the Safari 3.1 browser download as the default selected option. Now I am not for a second condoning this kind of behaviour. I believe opt-in is the only way to do optional updates, especially…

  • Firefox 3.0b4 review

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    Firefox 3.0b4 was released overnight and it is a significant improvement over the already superb 3.0b3! The browser space is really improving of late, what with the release of the surprisingly good Internet Explorer 8 beta, the nightly Webkit releases, and now Firefox 3.0b4. I ran Firefox 3.0b4 through the Sunspider browser speed test and…

  • Internet Explorer 8 (Beta) released

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    Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta yesterday and, surprisingly, it seems to be quite a good browser! I say surprisingly because Microsoft don’t have a track record in the good browser market 😉 I wrote a post a few weeks back comparing the speeds of various browsers and Microsoft’s current browser, Internet Explorer 7, was…

  • Screaming fast browser II

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    I wrote a post the other day giving speeds of various browsers running the SunSpider JavaScript Benchnark tests. Since writing the post Firefox has released Firefox 3.0b3 and Robert made me aware in the comments of the previous browser speed post that Opera 9.5 beta was released so I decided to check those two browsers…

  • Screaming fast browser?

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    Tom Raftery
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    After reading Seth Weintraub’s post on how the upcoming versions of Safari are blisteringly fast I decided to download the latest nightly (WebKit r30123) and check it out for myself. To check the different browser versions I used the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark. The results were pretty amazing – on Vista the performance times came in…

  • Will 2008 be the year of the standards compliant browser?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft announced yesterday on the Internet Explorer blog that the next version of Internet Explorer (IE8) will correctly render the Acid2 test page. See the excellent Channel 9 video for more. The Acid2 test is a test of a browser’s ability to properly render CSS and HTML. From the Acid2 Wikipedia page: The Acid2 test…

  • Firefox 3.0b2 released

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    Tom Raftery
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    I started using Firefox 3.0b1 a few weeks back as my primary browser (in general it is not advisable to use beta software on a production machine). In that time it has been incredibly stable and not at all resource hungry. This morning I noticed that Firefox 3.0b2 was released yesterday. I took a quick…