Internet Explorer 8 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
	Now that Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3.0 are available to end users, the focus is bound to shift on Microsoft. The Redmond company has been cooking Internet Explorer 8 for over a year now, and is approximately one month away from releasing the second Beta build to the public. Since Beta 1 was s ... [read more >>]
	05 July 2008, 06:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Ghost in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
	Whether you believe in ghosts or not is irrelevant from a browser point of view. The matter is that you'd better start believing because Microsoft's browsers allow "ghosts" to take more than a peek over your shoulder, in fact, it permits them to see and register every move associated with the browsing process. Sec ... [read more >>]
	02 July 2008, 09:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Firefox 3.0 Has Slaughtered Internet Explorer
	June 2008 will go down in history as the month of Firefox 3.0, this despite the fact that Opera 9.5 was also dropped the past month. But while the presence of Opera 9.5 was felt only superficially, and with the Internet Explorer giant lying dormant, Firefox ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 11:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IE7 on XP Outperforms Safari 3 on Mac OS X
	On its official website, Apple claims that Safari 3.0 outperforms Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9 in terms of both HTML and JavaScript performance. Of course, as a disclaimer, the Cupertino-based hardware company does state that the actual performance of the browsers depends on different factors including the network connection and system configuration, and that results can vary. This is a good thing because ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 10:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft: Faulty Integration of XP SP3 RTM and IE8 Beta 1 by Design
	Although the bundle between Microsoft's proprietary operating system and browser products seems nothing short of a match made in Redmond heaven, the fact of the matter is that the ubiquitous Windows-IE couple now experiences problems with the arrival of Service Pack 3 for XP. At this point in time, Microsoft is offering no less than three different versions of Internet Explorer, namely IE6, IE7 and IE8 Beta 1. The intimate c ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 03:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Opera 9.5 Beta 2 Available for Download
	While Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 1 and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 are not even on the horizon, Opera has moved ahead with Beta 2. Opera 9.5 Beta 2 comes with the following builds: 9945 for Windows, 4789 for Mac and 1933 for UNIX (Linux). The build was announced as early as the past week by Adam Minchinton, Opera Mac Developer. At that time, Opera was gearing up to make Kestrel Beta 2 available. "Introduced in this build is a ne ... [read more >>]
	25 April 2008, 06:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IE8 Beta 1 Fixing What's Wrong with IE7
	One error message that plagued Internet Explorer 7, but that won't make it into the final version of Internet Explorer 8 refers to "operation aborted" messages. In IE7, operation aborted errors, marked by the associated dialog box featured in the scr ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 07:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Launches IE 8 Beta 1 and IE7 Tree-Hugging Exclusive Website
	With Carbon Grove, Microsoft is introducing the first Internet Explorer Beta 1 and IE7 "tree-hugging" exclusive website. The Redmond company, and specifically the Internet Explorer team, have sponsored the project built by the Jackson Fish Market, a web design company that was also involved in building ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 04:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

15 Years Separate Mosaic and Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
	On March 5 2008, at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft permitted the first public tasting of Internet Explorer 8. Designed as the successor of Internet Explorer 7, IE8 debuted into beta at the end of the past month with a build aimed at web content developers and designers. Microsoft is currently building the second beta of IE8, and making headway towards the final version of the browser. According to the Redmond compa ... [read more >>]
	22 April 2008, 09:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IE7 Grows Up Ahead of IE8 Beta 2, by Default in Vista SP1 and XP SP3
	Even though the first Beta of Internet Explorer 8 was made available on March 5, 2008, the final version of the next iteration of IE is by no means anywhere on the horizon. In this context, Microsoft's focus is still set on Internet Explorer 7, as the company ... [read more >>]
	09 April 2008, 04:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Opera 9.5 Bests IE 8 and Firefox 3.0 – Download Available
	Internet Explorer and Firefox might very well be leaders in terms of their share of the market, but it is a product situated at under 1% (according to Net Applications) of the browser install base that has become the epitome for web standards support. Opera 9.5 Beta is the first browser to reach the Acid3 standards support test finish line, and the Norway-based company has made the first build available for download. The past we ... [read more >>]
	31 March 2008, 04:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Firefox 4.0 - Look Beyond IE8 and Firefox 3.0
	Mozilla is currently making headway with the development of Firefox 3.0, having released the fourth beta development milestone at the beginning of March and pressing on for the delivery of Beta 5 by the end of this month. Version 3.0 of the open source browser is set to be ready for general adoption, and will be made available by the end of June 2008. At the same time, Mozilla is already hard at work on Firefox 4.0, the next iteration of t ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 15:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Opera 9.5 Beta Leaves IE8 Beta 1, Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 and Safari 3.1 in the Dirt
	Opera may very well be the last browser in terms of the audience it has gathered, but what it lacks in market share, it more than makes up for when it comes down to web standards support. After it has filed an antitrust complaint with the EU Commission against the bundle of Windows and Internet Explorer, and Microsoft's failure to adopt and support web standards, Opera is now able to offer itself as an epitome of interoperab ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 14:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mozilla Welcomes Competition but Says Apple Uses Malware Distribution Practices
	While Microsoft is completely mute on the automatic delivery of Safari 3.1 via Apple Software Update even to the Windows users that do not have the Mac OS X native browser installed, Mozilla Chief Executive Officer John Lilly said that the practice was "wrong." Lilly came out with an update following the original criticism st ... [read more >>]
	24 March 2008, 05:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Firefox 3.0 Final Drops in June – Beta 5 Just Around the Corner
	The final version of Firefox 3.0 is planned for general availability in June 2008. The successor of Firefox 2.0, which was dropped all the way back in October 2006, almost concomitantly with Internet Explorer 7, was initially planned for delivery at the end of 2007. Due ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2008, 10:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Microsoft Suggests XP SP3 RC2 the Final Pit Stop – RTM Next
	Release Candidate 2 could very well be the final beta stage of the Windows XP Service Pack 3. At least this is what Microsoft is indicating. However, there is no official confirmation at this point in time of the fact that XP SP2 RC2 is indeed the last pit stop of the ser ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2008, 16:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IE8 Beta 1 vs. Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 vs. Opera 9.5 Beta vs. Safari 3 Beta – the Future!
	When you talk about the future of the browser market, there are four products that will ultimately divide and share the overwhelming majority of users among them. These are Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.0, Opera 9.5 and Safari 3. Neither of these browsers is wrapp ... [read more >>]
	06 March 2008, 12:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia