News: browser wars continues!


Even with the lack luster release of Microsofts IE8, the browser war is not over. IE is still losing market share and IE8's take up has been less than expected. In addition, IE still fails to render some older web sites and, in my experince, is having trouble with some web 2.0 based web sites.

In terms of performance, Apple now claim that Safari has the fastest JavaScript engine. However my tests of the windows version was significanlty less performant that Google Chrome, the hot rodded, open source, V8 engine. You can try it for your self on this cool site: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v4/run.html
Mozilla is also fighting back and not losing market share with it's new release of Firefox 3.5, whose downloads have already eclipsed google chrome and Safari take up.
Check out this web site to see real time stats of Firefox downloads... it really is super cool http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/

and the real time Firefox take up stats: http://whos.amung.us/firefox/

So the way to go is select your browser from:

Firefox - Web developer types who need some cool tools!
Google Chrome - Vista / Xp users
Safari - Apple Mac users


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