Answers: It really depends on what you are looking for in a browser. Internet Explorer has been around for ages, and has the full support of Microsoft behind it. It is sleek and powerful, but on old(ish) computers that may slow you down a bit. Still, as the standard browser, you won't find many other negatives with it.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/product...
Mozilla FireFox is a highly customizable browser. New themes and gadgets are released every week, and this gives a personal feel to it when viewing websites. Although it slows the computer down, it isn't as bad as IE, though on a fast computer, you won't notice much of a difference between the two.
FireFox 3.0.1: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all...
Other options available are Opera Browser. This browser offers very limited customization features (only a colour change in fact), but because of this gives very fast browsing. it doesn't require as many resources as IE or FF, but it isn't very fun to browse in something that looks as out-of-date as it does.
Opera 9.52: http://www.opera.com/download/
The final major browser is Apple Safari. In my opinion it is the fastest of the 4 browser and my personal favourite. Its style is based on the iTunes layout and it doesn't offer any customizability, but if you like iTunes, you'll love this browser. Its major downfall is the fact that it doesn't render (load) webpages very well. This can become very irritating while browsing so most people don't give it a second thought. It does run very fast (even on slow computers) and has the fastest startup time of all browsers. If you find that the pages you usually visit work fine on Safari, you won't have anything bad to say about it.
Safari 3.1.2: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/s...
So it really depends on what kind of person you are and what type of computer you have. You can't go wrong with IE or FF, but under stress, they perform slowly, Opera is a boring looking browser but can run where the other two can't, and Safari has problems with many webpages, but is much the fastest of them all. I personally use all four of them (but IE and Safari are my main two). If Apple ever get the rendering process sorted, it would be my number 1 choice.
Hope that helps.
Just remember that Internet Explorer 8 is still in beta. Aside from the crashes, as a stand-alone browser, I do think IE 8 is more feature packed than Firefox without any extensions.
Firefox has a password manager, but IE8 has a feature called InPrivate browsing which allows you to browse without leaving any private data on there *cookies, temp files, history, etc). Yeah, you could already just set it to automatically erase those once it was closed, but IE takes the proactive by not doing it in the first place if you choose to use that setting.
Mozilla Firefox 3 is better than IE 8. as I was using IE 8 it always freezes and stop responding and lost my surfing works i hated it.. I am using Mozilla Firefox 3 its alot faster and keep me happy
Mozilla Firefox 3 has options to delete cookies, saved password, history etc, by click on Tools>option then click on privcy tabs and Security
Mozilla FireFox 3!It's free,fast,customizable,and overall,its awesome.
No, it isn't. Opera is actually the most standards-compliant. Try running your browser past the test below to see what I mean.
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FF3 is faster, less cumbersome. Its just a better browser.