Set aside a second and think how life will be using a car devoid of tires. You’ll be rendered immobile completely. That is the exact thing that is with a web browser. Without one, you can’t have the ability to search or browse anything on the web; you can’t have the ability to view any webpage, or basically do anything on the cyberspace. If you are like lots of people, most probably you are using Internet Explorer, the default web browser that comes with Windows. Lots of people settle for less and continue employing this web browser without knowing that they can obtain a better and improved web browser for free… yes the Mozilla Firefox free download.

As is with other things these days , there’s a multitude of web browsers to select from, but the Mozilla Firefox software seems to be taking the world by storm, thanks to the many user-friendly features and the ease of accessibility that the web browser has become. Needless to mention, as the name indicates, this is a free web browser for all to use and has significantly gained in popularity among web-developers and internet administrators.

As mentioned, Mozilla Firefox incorporates so many amazing features, features that makes this web browser unique from the rest with the likes of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Listed here are some of the many features you can rest assured you will get when you choose this user-friendly Mozilla Firefox.

Particularly, Mozilla Firefox supports all web standards, at least the basics such as XML, XHTML, HTML, CCS, DOM, SVG, XSLT, JavaScript, XPath, and MathML among many more. To many, especially web-site designers and web developers, this is good news as they can be able to customize the browser to their needs. Also accompanying your Mozilla Firefox is the ability to use a profile or whatever platform you select since a similar profile format is maintained irrespective of the platform. What this consequently means is that whether you’ve stored your profile on the FAT23 division or on an NTFS via FUSE, you may rest assured you’ll access it whether you are utilizing a USB flash drive, Windows, or Linux. This feature of the Mozilla Firefox also comes as good news to people with the practice of dual-booting their computers.

Whoever said the very best things in life are free was probably thinking of Mozilla Firefox because despite the fact that it is free of charge, it doesn’t disappoint security wise. A lot of security features happen to be integrated to assure users of the highest level of safety they’ll ever require online. Notable safety measures include a phishing detector, sandbox security model, external protocol whitelisting, same origin policy, and capability to clear private data like browser history and cookies. Further, Mozilla is an open source software meaning the source code is obtainable for all to see giving you the opportunity to review your source code if you’re having security threats, whether legitimate or not.

Mozilla’s Firefox 4 may still be fresh from the oven and cooling on millions of users’ computers, but Mozilla has already set an aggressive schedule with specific dates for the release of the open source browser’s upcoming versions.Indeed, making good on the promise back in February that it was planning to step up the pace of its browser releases, Mozilla has now made plain that it plans to ship the final release of Firefox 5 on June 21, likely followed by Firefox 6 in mid-August.

Beginning with Firefox 6, in fact, Mozilla will adopt a standard, overlapping 18-week schedule by which each new version spends six weeks in each of three different stages: the “central” or “nightly” phase, which is “just like the current repository,” Mozilla notes; the “aurora” phase, where work done previously is stabilized; and then the beta phase, in which any remaining issues are fixed. A draft outline is posted on Mozilla’s site.

‘Releases Are Not Delayed’

Whereas previous Firefox releases have taken many months to develop, Mozilla’s new timetable will impose a much stricter schedule that’s akin to the one Google follows for its own Chrome competitor.

“Each release happens regardless of whether a given feature is ready, and releases are not delayed to wait for a feature to stabilize,” Mozilla explains in a separate draft document. “The goal of the process is to provide regular improvements to users without disrupting longer term work.”

According to Mozilla’s schedule, Firefox 5 will enter the aurora phase on Tuesday. At the same time, Firefox 6 will enter its central, or nightly, phase.

For the first time in a web browser’s era, we are witnessing real action behind a browser other than Internet Explorer. The most browser history we can remember, major and widely accepted internet browser was Internet Explorer.

In late 90s, there was a time when Netscape was trying to claim superiority in that browser market share, but Internet Explorer walk away winning a lions share. However at present, for the first time Microsoft is facing tough competition. The new contender of Internet Explorer is “Firefox”, which is likely to take advantage of the security concerns that is counted as loop holes in Internet Explorer structure.

A browser from the producers of Mozilla, Firefox is drawing massive attention. Firefox is a browser that focuses on opening websites rapidly while keeping malicious pop-ups and spyware a side.

While, at final stages Firefox luckily was picked for the upcoming browser two federal agencies that recommended Internet users to select browser other than Internet Explorer for the first time, because of security concerns.

Internet users began switching over Firefox after facing numerous security issues with Internet Explorer. Users believe that Internet Explorer has not actually been upgraded since beginning of 20s. Users have to download the patch known as Service Pack 2 as well as upgrade their system up to windows XP for more secured Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer use to hold around 95 percent of market share for web browsers but slide down to nearly 92 percent in just the few months. This might seem a few percentage points, but these few percentages depict millions of people who have switched over to Firefox from Internet Explorer.

It shows that Firefox is becoming widely accepted by millions of its fans, for its excellent features such as download speed, outstanding user interface along with its pop-up blocker.

But the biggest advantage for Internet Explorer is that most websites are still built to work best with Microsoft’s browsers. It may result that some sites may not sees right or not be accessible at all through internet browser other than IE.

So, who will win this race Internet Explorer or Firefox? If Firefox sustains getting market share as it has at current phase than future is bright for Firefox. But, if Internet Explorer comes out with the solutions for its security issues, it can hold onto its over 90 percent lions share in the browser market.

Whatever, but the fact is that both browsers have had advantages along with security problems and loop-holes. So only the time will show the right answer, just wait and watch.

Mozilla yesterday announced that it is preparing to launch an iPhone applicationcalled “Firefox Home” that will offer users the ability to sync their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks, and tabs from their most recent browser session on other platforms. The application also provides “Awesome Bar” compatibility, allowing users to access favorite websites with a minimum of typing.
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Firefox Home for iPhone is part of a broader Mozilla effort to provide a more personal Web experience with more user control. For devices or platforms where we’re unable to provide the “full” Firefox browser (either technically or due to policy), we aim to provide users with “on the go” instant access to their personal Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs on their iPhones, giving them another reason to keep loving Firefox on their desktops.
Rather than a standalone browser, content from Firefox Home will launch in an integrated WebKit-based viewer.

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Mozilla is continuing to put the finishing touches on Firefox Home, but has released a brief video showing a test version in action. There is no word on when Mozilla is planning to submit the application to Apple for approval.

Mozilla yesterday announced that it is preparing to launch an iPhone applicationcalled “Firefox Home” that will offer users the ability to sync their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks, and tabs from their most recent browser session on other platforms. The application also provides “Awesome Bar” compatibility, allowing users to access favorite websites with a minimum of typing.
Quote:
Firefox Home for iPhone is part of a broader Mozilla effort to provide a more personal Web experience with more user control. For devices or platforms where we’re unable to provide the “full” Firefox browser (either technically or due to policy), we aim to provide users with “on the go” instant access to their personal Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs on their iPhones, giving them another reason to keep loving Firefox on their desktops.
Rather than a standalone browser, content from Firefox Home will launch in an integrated WebKit-based viewer.

http://install-how.blogspot.com/2011/03/mozilla-prepping-release-of-firefox.html
Mozilla is continuing to put the finishing touches on Firefox Home, but has released a brief video showing a test version in action. There is no word on when Mozilla is planning to submit the application to Apple for approval.

Mozilla yesterday announced that it is preparing to launch an iPhone applicationcalled “Firefox Home” that will offer users the ability to sync their Firefox browsing history, bookmarks, and tabs from their most recent browser session on other platforms. The application also provides “Awesome Bar” compatibility, allowing users to access favorite websites with a minimum of typing.
Quote:
Firefox Home for iPhone is part of a broader Mozilla effort to provide a more personal Web experience with more user control. For devices or platforms where we’re unable to provide the “full” Firefox browser (either technically or due to policy), we aim to provide users with “on the go” instant access to their personal Firefox history, bookmarks and open tabs on their iPhones, giving them another reason to keep loving Firefox on their desktops.
Rather than a standalone browser, content from Firefox Home will launch in an integrated WebKit-based viewer.

Mozilla is continuing to put the finishing touches on Firefox Home, but has released a brief video showing a test version in action. There is no word on when Mozilla is planning to submit the application to Apple for approval.

Three years ago, Firefox 3 set the record for most downloads in a 24-hour period, cracking 8 million and positioning itself as a viable alternative to Internet Explorer.

Firefox 4 released today to the public at large after 12 public betas, two release candidates, and nearly a year of development, faces a hugely different landscape. (Download Firefox 4 here for Windows, Mac, and Linux.) Microsoft’s Internet Explorer remains the dominant browser. And in less than three years, a significant chunk of the browser market has taken a shine to relative newcomer Google Chrome.

Mozilla flips the switch from version 3.6.15 to version 4 as Firefox possesses more than 400 million active users. (Mozilla has opened a download tracker at glow.mozilla.org.) The new version of the browser sports several massive changes, including a radically redesigned interface, significantly faster browsing speeds, strong support for the still-in-development HTML5 and other “future-Web” tech, and competitive features like synchronization, restart-less add-ons, and tab grouping. You can read the official CNET reviews of Firefox 4 at the Download.com pages for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Browser speed remains an important point of comparison. But as the five major browsers have developed over the past year, their speed differences have become more muddled. For example, Mozilla noted that when Firefox 3 was released, it took “60 milliseconds to change Gmail from showing one message to another with Firefox 3… compared with 413 milliseconds for IE 7 and 227 for Firefox 2.”

Current browser benchmarks that look only at JavaScript place them all in the same ballpark now, so the point of comparison has begun to shift to graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware acceleration. This allows the browser to shove certain rendering tasks onto the computer’s graphics card, freeing up CPU resources while making page rendering and animations load faster. These tasks include composition support, rendering support, and desktop compositing, and there are few benchmarks that are capable of testing it.

One interesting publicly available benchmark is the new JSGameBench from Facebook, which looks to test HTML5 in real-world gaming situations. The Firefox 4 beta was the fastest tested without WebGL and was the second fastest with it. Mozilla’s own tests put Firefox 4 at three to six times faster than Firefox 3.6.

Mozilla remains a leader in developing the Web, and interestingly that role has led it to hold back on building out one of the more interesting minor features in Firefox 4. The new do-not-track feature supports a header on Web sites that tells sites and advertisers not to track you, so you don’t see targeted ads as often. Internet Explorer also supports the header, and it includes robust, configurable support for blocking ad trackers; Firefox 4 relies on add-ons like AdBlock Plus to gain the list blocking.

Johnathan Nightingale, director of Firefox development at Mozilla, explained during a conversation last week at CNET’s San Francisco office that Mozilla is more concerned with the larger problem of why ads were targeted in the first place.

“Beyond blocking the ad loads, which you can do with add-ons, this is a business-social trust situation between sites and users. We need people to vote with their feet, or at least want to have that conversation. We’ve spoken to a lot of advertisers. And by and large, they want to be good citizens here,” Nightingale said. As a current solution, though, that makes users entirely dependent on advertiser behavior, which is likely to fall short of what people want.

Another security repair in Firefox 4 fixes a hole that affected all browsers until last summer–a vulnerability so old that it was mentioned in the documentation for CSS2 a decade ago. The exploit is a CSS sniffing history attack, in which malicious code can gain access to your browser history by manipulating link appearance and style. What made the bug so difficult to repair is that the simplest solution–to prevent all link style manipulation–would be like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, Nightingale had said in an interview at Black Hat 2010.

Nightingale also addressed other changes in Firefox 4 as providing the feature in question without playing fast and loose with a user’s data. Firefox 4 removes the “lucky” automatic search results from the location bar’s search functionality because Mozilla had “concerns about sending a lot of private data from the location bar to search engines. We will get there,” he added, “but like with Sync we want to do it right.”

Sync is another new feature in Firefox 4 and is possibly one of the best implementations of the feature across the competition. Not only can you synchronize your data across traditional PC versions of Firefox, but you also can sync your bookmarks, passwords, preferences, history, and tabs with your Android or Maemo-running phone or tablet. However, Sync debuted in 2008 as an add-on and had a notably rough beginning. Fortunately for user data, which it used to delete seemingly at will, Mozilla fixed the problems with it.

Along with the Android support, Sync gets two security features right. One is that Firefox encrypts your data before sending it over an encrypted connection to its servers, where it remains encrypted. Mozilla said it could not access the data even if somebody there wanted to. The second is that you have the option of setting up your own personal sync server. In an age in which private data stored by corporations gets hacked and stolen with shocking regularity, setting up a personal sync server is one way to ensure that you bear the responsibility for your own data. The only problem with the feature is that it doesn’t yet support syncing add-ons, a factor that is at least partially tied to Firefox’s nascent restart-less add-on network, also debuting in version 4.

Other big changes in Firefox 4 include a minimalist interface with a condensed menu button that closely resembles that of Opera 11 and Chrome 10; app tabs; tab groups for keeping tabs organized; an overhauled add-on manager that also supports restart-less add-ons; and expansive support for HTML5, CSS3, and the aforementioned hardware acceleration for Direct2D and Direct3D on Windows, OpenGL on Mac, and XRender on Linux.

One “future-Web” tech that Nightingale said probably won’t come to Firefox before version 5 is support for WebSocket. “The specification had security problems, so we turned it off,” he said. He added that users can enable it at will through the “websocket” options in about:config.

Although it took more than two and a half years for Firefox 4 to get here, expect that time to get axed like a tree in a rainforest for Firefox 5. Mozilla plans to put Firefox on an accelerated release schedule, much like Google has done with Chrome.

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Recently Mozilla announced to changed the deadline date of new version of Mozilla 3.6 and 4.Mozilla is open source Web browser.Mozilla developer work on latest version of Mozilla 3.6 and 4 before the development starting of they announced the deadline is December 2009 but there problem with addons and updates downloading.
Mozilla 3.7 comes with lots of changes .In this version of Mozilla they reduced the startup time on windows. In this Mozilla they make easy to install and upgrade the addons. In this Mozilla they add new feature it’s called tab matching. Using this people can get access already open web site in other tabs. Here they add new feature it’s called Electrolysis. These components separate the process and give better stability. It’s also separate the plug-ins process wise. In this Mozilla flash player plug-ins are already installed. There is one problem with this browser this is run on only Windows and Linux OS not run on MAC OS.
The Mozilla organization decide Mozilla 3.6 version is launch in first quarter of 2010 and Mozilla 4.0 is launch in late 2010 or early 2011.Mozilla 4 beta version they launch in summer of 2010.Mozilla developers are decided to add the new plug -ins for synchronizes bookmarks and passwords. In version 4.0 they add most striking feature it’s called Electrolysis. This component split the process into the browser. Developers also change the user interface.
There is problem in currently available Mozilla 3.6. I think this is not full version or its beta version of Mozilla 3.6. Most of things are not added in this browser like latest plug-ins, latest updates. This Mozilla take long startup time and the main thing is this beta version not supporting Windows 7
Recently Mozilla announced to changed the deadline date of new version of Mozilla 3.6 and 4.Mozilla is open source Web browser.Mozilla developer work on latest version of Mozilla 3.6 and 4 before the development starting of they announced the deadline is December 2009 but there problem with addons and updates downloading.
Mozilla 3.7 comes with lots of changes .In this version of Mozilla they reduced the startup time on windows. In this Mozilla they make easy to install and upgrade the addons. In this Mozilla they add new feature it’s called tab matching. Using this people can get access already open web site in other tabs. Here they add new feature it’s called Electrolysis. These components separate the process and give better stability. It’s also separate the plug-ins process wise. In this Mozilla flash player plug-ins are already installed. There is one problem with this browser this is run on only Windows and Linux OS not run on MAC OS.

With the release of Firefox 4 Beta 1, Mozilla is preparing to once again take on Google’s Chrome, Opera Software’s Opera and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The company finds itself in a good position. As the world’s second-most popular browser, Firefox is poised to continue its growth and eventually supplant Internet Explorer as the top program in the space.

Of course, achieving that goal could be more difficult than ever. Google Chrome is gaining market share at a rapid rate, thanks to the browser’s ability to load Web pages far more quickly than the competition. Even Internet Explorer gained a little share in June, even though Microsoft is forced to give European Windows users their choice of browsers. Simply put, the market is heating up.

But it’s Chrome that may be Mozilla’s biggest competition in the browser market. It’s quickly gaining ground, and it arguably delivers the best experience of any browser on the market. And even though Firefox 4 is still at the beta stage, and the final release is potentially far off, one thing is clear: Chrome continues to reign supreme as the browser with the best design and performance. Let’s examine why Google Chrome is still better than Firefox 4.

1. Firefox loads too slowly

A major problem with Firefox in the past has been that it starts up too slowly compared with other browsers. Mozilla obviously realized that and did a fine job, at least in Windows 7, of making Firefox 4 load far more quickly. But it’s still too slow when compared with Chrome. It’s not necessarily a deal-breaker—the difference is about 1 or 2 seconds—but it’s noticeable enough for some users who require zippy actions to opt for Chrome over Mozilla’s product.

2. Browsing is still slow

A browser’s ability to load pages will determine which software people will use on a regular basis to surf the Web. When comparing Firefox 4 with Chrome, it quickly becomes apparent that the latter browser does a much better job of loading pages. In some cases, large, detailed pages load nearly twice as fast in Chrome than in Firefox. Mozilla’s latest browser beta is admittedly much faster than its predecessor, but until Firefox does a better job of quickly loading pages, most folks will likely opt for Google’s browser.

3. A multicapable address bar is missing

One of the key components in Chrome is the ability to use its address bar both for search and for typing in a URL. In Firefox 4, the functionality is similar. Users can type a URL into the address bar and go to the desired site, or they can type in a search query and get the first site listed in Google search results. That’s certainly better than nothing, but it would be nice if the address bar doubled as a true search field, rather than being flanked by a search bar. It’s not necessarily an annoyance, but it’s just another example of Chrome doing a slightly better job than Mozilla’s latest browser.

4. The design feels nice, but borrowed

A quick comparison between previous versions of Firefox and the new iteration of the browser shows just how far Firefox 4 has come in design. It’s a much nicer browser that longtime Firefox fans will like. But further inspection reveals that it looks awfully similar to Chrome on Windows 7. Not only has Mozilla consolidated menus, as Chrome did, but Firefox has also taken on a similar skin to Chrome. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, since Chrome is so well-designed, but it seems rather unfortunate that Mozilla couldn’t come up with something a little more unique to challenge Google’s browser with.

5. Ease of use is gone

Firefox won a lot of converts because of its ease of use. In previous versions of the software, folks could easily access menus, find bookmarks and generally enjoy the efficiency of the application. In fact, Firefox was arguably better than Chrome in terms of usability. But all that has changed. Firefox 4 has jumbled menus that aren’t broken out any longer. Chrome users will feel right at home, but those who enjoy having easy access to top-level menus will find Firefox 4 shocking at first glance. Firefox 4 just isn’t as easy to use as earlier versions were. And that’s unfortunate.

6. Moving tabs is a pain

It might be a small issue, but the way tabs are moved in Firefox 4 needs to be improved before the software’s final build is made public. In Chrome, moving a tab is a simple matter of dragging it from one place to another. Along the way, the other tabs shift, and it’s easy to see where the tab is going. But in Firefox 4, that isn’t the case. The browser’s tabs don’t move as a page is dragged across the bar, and the only help given to the user is a simple blue arrow that is too difficult to see in Windows 7. It’s nice to be able to move tabs, but if the functionality isn’t smooth, it will be frustrating to users.

7. The design lacks intuitiveness

One of the main problems with Firefox 4 is that its new design lacks the kind of intuitive design that users are looking for. There is a prominent address bar and the search box is still to the right of it, but with different options hidden both at the upper left of the page and to the right of the search box, too much moving around and clicking is required to find the features users really want. It seems that rather than develop a design that understands what people want to do with a browser and helps them do it more efficiently, Mozilla decided to lump everything together into a couple of menus. It’s unfortunate. An intuitive design is central to a browser’s success or failure. And Firefox 4 doesn’t have that.

8. HTML5 is nice, but expected

The addition of HTML5 support in Firefox 4 could be the browser’s most desired new feature. Users will now be able to view content in the new standard no matter where they go on the Web. But excitement over the addition of HTML5 seems rather overblown. Yes, it’s nice to have the standard Apple supports, but its inclusion seems like an obvious move on the part of a company that’s trying to keep up with changing Web platforms. Firefox 4 was forced to support HTML5, considering that much of the competition already accommodates it in one form or another. It’s nice to have it, but let’s not get too excited about it.

9. It’s simple—to a point

Throughout the process of using Firefox 4, one issue continued to pop up: The browser is far simpler than previous versions in some areas, but in others, it’s far more complicated. In other words, Firefox 4 is very much a tradeoff experience. On the one hand, thanks to its prominent address bar and useful search bar, it’s simple and a viable alternative to Chrome. But when trying to, say, look at a page source or just view saved bookmarks, it becomes far more complicated than it needs to be. This is a major design flaw that should be addressed in the final build.

10. Future potential

When it comes time to compare one browser with another, future potential must be considered. Although there is a lot of upside to Mozilla’s Firefox 4, and it provides a great starting point for even better versions of the application in the future, Chrome has the most potential of any browser on the market. Not only will the software play a key role in Chrome OS, but it’s fast, it’s well-designed and there are several things Google can do to improve the browser far beyond any other program on the market. If future potential is a component in deciding which browser is better, Chrome wins.

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Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. As a report of October 2010, Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with 30% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.

Firefox, like most other popular browsers, comes with a built-in functionality to save your password. Often we’ll use the saved password feature so that we’ve completely forgotten our password when we need to login to the same website on another computer. But if we have lost or forgotten the website password and can’t access the Firefox to view the salved password, what should you do?

At this situation, Firefox Password Recovery 5.0 comes in handy. It is a smart and powerful utility to recover passwords to web sites saved in Firefox Web Browser and Thunderbird. This tool can get the list of all usernames and passwords saved in Firefox Web Browser with only one button click!

In addition, this program also allows you to reset Firefox Master Password.

Features:

1. Recover passwords for protected sites stored by Firefox and Mozilla browsers.

2. Decrypt passwords protected with User Master Password.

3. Recover email account passwords from Mozilla Thunderbird.

4. Support for multilingual passwords.

5. Allow you to reset Firefox Master Password easily.

6. Friendly wizard interface.

How to use:

With this user guide, even a new user can fully control Firefox Password Recovery in less than a minute.

Tip:

Below are the steps to recover logins and passwords for protected sites stored by Firefox Web Browser and Thunderbird. This program also allows you to reset Firefox Master Password. To see the detailed information, please refer to the “Help” document integrated in the program.

Follow the guide below to recover logins and passwords for protected sites stored by Firefox Web Browser

Step1: To get a list of all passwords stored by Firefox Web Browser, press “Start Recovery” button and select Recover Firefox Password menu item.

Step2: The passwords together with their Website URL and User name will be displayed.

Follow the guide below to reset Firefox Master Password

Step1: To Reset Firefox Master password, press “Start Recovery” button and select Reset Firefox Master Password menu item.

Step2: The program will prompt a dialog which contains the instructions to follow to reset Firefox Master Password.

Step3: Open Mozilla Firefox and enter URL in address bar, click the “Reset” button and it will immediately reset the master password.

Follow the guide below to recover logins and passwords for protected sites stored by Thunderbird

Step1: To Reset Firefox Master password, press “Start Recovery” button and select Reset Thunderbird Password menu item.

Step2: The passwords together with their Website URL and User name will be displayed.

Follow the guide below to recover Firefox passwords from unbootable computer or crashed Firefox Web Browser

Step1: To Reset Firefox Master password, press” remove from file” button and windows will pop up.

Step2: Select the Firefox installation directory and select the Firefox profile directory and click “ok” button. The passwords together with their Website URL and User name will be displayed.

Note:

Firefox Password Recovery 5.0can be downloaded on it official website. By the way, there is a tool there called Password Recovery Bundle which including not onlyFirefox Password Recovery 5.0 but also other programs that can recover your windows password, file password as well as email password.

Cloud computing brought the browser wars back: Microsoft, Google and Mozilla have been rewriting JavaScript engines, improving their support for web standards and improving their user interfaces.

The result is the big three’s best browsers yet: IE9, Chrome 10 and Firefox 4 RC. So which one deserves a place on your desktop?

IE9 vs Firefox 4 vs Chrome 10: appearance

The trio keep on-screen “chrome” to a minimum and don’t look bad at all. From a purely aesthetic point of view IE9 looks nicest, but having everything on one line quickly gets cluttered.

Chrome is stripped back to the point of near invisibility, and Firefox 4 is the prettiest Firefox yet. Yes, that’s a bit like saying “the smartest thing Charlie Sheen has ever said” but after years of blocky ugliness the new UI is a vast improvement, and this refined version is starting to grow on us. At least, it is on the PC. The default Mac interface doesn’t quite work.

PRETTIER: Firefox’s new UI is a dramatic improvement. It doesn’t take up much room and it’s a nice place to spend time

IE9 vs Firefox 4 vs Chrome 10: speed

Chrome 10 was the slowest on our test PC, running through the SunSpider benchmarks in an average of 346.0ms, with Firefox 4 achieving an average of 308.5. IE9 had the edge, though, with an average of just 288.8ms.

Let’s try another one: version 6 of V8, Google’s own benchmarking suite. You’d expect Google to do well here, and it did. Bigger numbers are better, (Dell inspiron 6400 batteries) and Chrome achieved 7,101 compared to 3,269 for Firefox and 2,053 for IE9.

So far so meh – “Google browser does well in Google benchmark” isn’t a surprise – but it does demonstrate how the gaps between browsers are disappearing: in 2008, Chrome would routinely score ten times more than Firefox and IE wouldn’t even feature.

One more? Let’s give Mozilla’s Kraken, the hugely demanding set of web-app tasks based on SunSpider, a go. Firefox powered through the enormous testing suite in 9,224ms and IE9 19,136ms. Firefox in “Mozilla has the best browser on Mozilla benchmarks” shocker? Nope: Chrome was narrowly ahead, coming in at 8,794ms.

It’s clear that the browsers have been optimised for their preferred benchmarks, but what about real-world stuff? From hitting enter to finishing loading the TechRadar home page on a 20MBps DSL connection, Chrome took four seconds, Firefox five and IE nine (no pages were cached and we didn’t have extensions, add-ons or other goodies installed or blocking content).

Fark.com took four seconds in Firefox, four in Chrome and six in IE. Online banking’s login page took two seconds in Chrome, two in Firefox and three in IE.

Let’s try something more challenging. Loading and starting to play Radiohead’s Lotus Flower video on YouTube was three seconds in Firefox, three in IE and four in Chrome. Opening an existing file and having it ready to edit in Google Docs took four seconds in Firefox, four in Chrome and six in IE9.

There’s clearly a pattern here. Firefox and Chrome are generally neck and neck in everyday performance, and IE9 lags narrowly behind. However, there really isn’t much in it – and in most cases the ads are the bits that take the time, with pages’ text, navigation elements and form fields appearing almost instantly.

IE9 vs Firefox 4 vs Chrome 10: stability and standards

The Acid 3 test is the, er, acid test for standards compliance, and if you’d told us a few years ago we’d be seeing IE get 95/100 we’d have burned you as a witch. But there it is in black and white (and yellow and…).

Firefox is narrowly ahead with 97/100, and Chrome is giving the teacher an apple and getting a gold star for its perfect 100/100 score.

There’s more to standards than the Acid test, however. Different browsers support different bits of the HTML5 standards, so for example when it comes to video Chrome doesn’t like H.264 – it prefers its own WebM video or Ogg Theora, which are the favourite formats of Firefox, too – whereas IE9 likes H.264 very, very much.

VIDEO SUPPORT: All three browsers are HTML5 friendly, but they support different video formats: Chrome and Firefox are playing WebM here while IE9 gets H.264

Video, of course, is a notorious browser crasher, so it’s nice to have Chrome and IE9′s ability to split individual tabs into different processes. This prevents a malfunctioning plug-in from wrecking the whole browser session, and makes it easy to kill misbehaving tabs.

Firefox has crash protection but it’s still a one-process browser, so something going wrong in one tab could still affect everything else.

BACK AGAIN: IE9 can recover from crashes and unexpected shutdowns just like Firefox, although we wish the notification was more prominent

IE9 vs Firefox 4 vs Chrome 10: features

Firefox has the edge here: its pinnable App Tabs tuck away opened tabs such as email and web apps, while Tab Groups make it easy to organise large collections of open pages.

Firefox 4 also boasts some excellent synchronisation features. It doesn’t just sync your bookmarks across devices; it takes your history and even your currently open tabs. If you’re constantly moving from machine to machine you’ll love this feature. Chrome has synchronisation too, but it doesn’t extend to open tabs.

IN SYNC: Firefox and Chrome both have excellent browser synchronisation systems. To do it in IE9 you need a third-party extension

IE9 doesn’t have syncing at all, but it does enable you to pin sites to the Windows 7 taskbar as if they were applications and drag a tab out to Snap it for viewing side by side with another. You also get a proper download manager, which Firefox has had since about 1957.

There’s also a Chrome-style new tab page and Chrome-style searching in the address bar. Firefox retains the two-box approach, with the Awesome Bar for URLs and history and a separate search box – although confusingly, the Awesome Bar does search too.

EXTEND IE: It doesn’t have the sheer range of Firefox’s add-ons, but IE has enough available extensions to cover the essentials

Firefox is the most expandable here but Chrome is catching up fast, its Chrome Extensions and web apps becoming increasingly impressive. All three browsers’ add-on galleries cover the basics – ad blocking, Flash blocking, Twitter clients and so on – but Internet Explorer’s is the most limited. Firefox and Chrome are also skinnable, enabling you to change their default appearance.

IE9 vs Firefox 4 vs Chrome 10: verdict

You can prove pretty much anything with benchmarks, and while Internet Explorer did best in SunSpider it felt the slowest in real-word use. It’s a really nice browser, though, and if you’re the kind of user who doesn’t really bother with extensions or fiddling around, you’ll be perfectly happy with it. (Dell inspiron 1525 Batteries) It does lag slightly behind its rivals in real world speed, but on a decent PC there’s not much in it.

Firefox and Chrome were neck and neck in the performance stakes: on paper Chrome bests Mozilla’s browser, but in practice the differences are insignificant. However, Chrome’s ability to split tabs into individual processes should make it the more stable – although at the time of writing there seems to be a horrible bug in its handling of Flash.

KEEP APART: Tab Groups in Firefox make it easy to separate business and pleasure, or to keep different tasks separate

Do we have a winner? Firefox’s Tab Groups and App Tabs are brilliant, and the browser’s Swiss Army Knife reputation remains intact. If you use a lot of tabs and need lots of extensions then Firefox is the browser for you; if you’re spending all day in a few web apps and your need for add-ons begins and ends with ad-blocking, then Google is your friend – or at least it will be once the Flash problem is fixed.

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