![]() Huge an improvement Internet Explorer 9 has made over its leprous ancestors, Internet Explorer deserves a majorįive-star win in this category. No numbers, but I do feel Firefox wins by a small margin. Overall, go with whatever your taste or mood dictates.īoth browsers feel rather quick. Get a bigger usable screen area and more tabs can be opened without scrunching them. In Firefox, tabs on top feature is annoying for me, but you Internet Explorer 9 is simpler, but less intuitive. Firefox has the orange button with all the availableįunctions in the top left corner, which is the standard placement. Less room for tabs, but it looks different from everybody else.īoth browsers offer a simple, clean, airy interface. Internet Explorer, this is a very new and unique look with the address bar and tabs side-by-side. For Firefox 4, this means no file menu and tabs on top. I'll go with Windows looks, pristine and untouched. Takes a long time and it's far more complex. On the other hand, Internet Explorer 9 goes through a relatively long installation, pulling updatesįrom Microsoft servers if necessary, followed by a reboot. On Linux, it will runs from its own extracted folder, ![]() Profile sans any incompatible extensions or themes. It can live alongside existing installations on Windows, reusing the No portability mode, deep integration into the system.įirefox 4 installs quickly and simply. Internet Explorer 9 is only meant for Windows 7 and possibly Vista SP1, so even Windows XP users are left out. It comes in all kinds of colors and flavors and will even work in a portable mode. Open-source horse, so it will run on just about anything, including Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac, and Let's compare the platforms and operating systems that can use the browsers. No less, a big fan of open-source and free, so if you think there's bias, there probably is. I'll try to be as objective as I can be, although I am a geek, a Linux geek, No fancy numbers, no geeky and pointless benchmarks. So, Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 it is. Yet do that one day, although, in general, I won't use Opera because it gave me a gyp some time ago, Chrome feels like a toy but I do use it occasionally, and I don'tįeel classy enough for Safari. I could have done an across-the-board comparison, with Chrome, Opera and maybe even Safari thrown in. And it's the first seriousĬompetitor by Microsoft in the modern web arena. Internet Explorer 9 is a revolution, crushing its predecessors to shameful dust. Both products show excellent promise.įirefox 4 is the continuation of a long line of great browsers, getting better while retaining the old spirit. In-cubic whipping andĪnyhow, a few days ago, we had long, extensive and exciting previews of Firefox 4 beta coming first, followed by Internet Explorer 9 beta a day later. Of surprises can happen, including Microsoft delivering a top-notch, first-class browser. Okay, lads brace yourselves! I would never have imagined to run this kind of contest, but here we go.
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