Obviously the biggest changes come from Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 7. IE7 has a new interface which is a big improvement compared to their previous browsers. Next to this new interface, security has improved a lot and new features such as tabbed browsing, embedded search and RSS feeds are being introduced.
Although this may look like a big list of improvements, it really isn't that astonishing. The new features take a large part of the resources cake. And, maybe the most important reason: Opera and Firefox are already using these features for a long time.
Firefox has recently released version 1.5. Although we really were satisfied with Firefox in all previous versions, this new version really is a disaster in our opinion. We have seen a lot of crashes and also loading times have increased quite a bit.
While firefox released a slower new version, Opera has done the opposite. Opera 9 is currently available as a public preview version and has impressed us the most from all new browsers. Not only is opera 9 by far the fastest browser available, it also brings new features such as tab previews and widgets.
With the interest of Google in both opera and firefox the new browser war could become a very interesting one ...
Tim De Grave - SodeX bvba
http://www.freedownloads.be
All new versions of these browsers can be downloaded on http://www.freedownloads.be
Comparison of browser speed: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
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