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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 set up to give web developers ...

5 July 2008
06:47 GMT

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 proce...

2 July 2008
09:53 GMT

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 3.0 reaped the browser market to shades leaving rivals in th...

1 July 2008
11:05 GMT

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 includin...

26 May 2008
10:04 GMT

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 ...

6 May 2008
03:26 GMT

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 M...

25 April 2008
06:08 GMT

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 screenshot on the left, prevented users from surfing certain websi...

24 April 2008
07:14 GMT

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 Tafiti, bundli...

23 April 2008
04:50 GMT

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 ...

22 April 2008
09:41 GMT

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 has revealed that it has failed to commit to a releas...

9 April 2008
04:17 GMT

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 ...

31 March 2008
04:39 GMT

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...

28 March 2008
15:22 GMT

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 Microsof...

27 March 2008
14:43 GMT

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 cri...

24 March 2008
05:42 GMT

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 to quality concerns, the development process of...

21 March 2008
10:08 GMT

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 service pack ahead of RTM. The indication came fr...

14 March 2008
16:07 GMT

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 wrapped up at this time, but all of them are rushing towar...

6 March 2008
12:54 GMT


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