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Chrome 4.0 vs Opera 10 vs Firefox 3.5

Posted by admin on September 4th, 2009

In a three-way cage match, LifeHacker threw Chrome 4, Firefox 3.5, and Opera 10 into the ring and let the three browsers duke it out to see which would emerge as the fastest app for surfing the web.

A number of tests were run, including a “cold start” right after boot, a “warm start” after the browsers have already run once measuring the time it takes 8 tabs to load, a JavaScript testing suite, and memory utilization.

Opera turned in the best cold start time and was slightly slower than Firefox 3.5 with a warm start, while Chrome trailed the competition in both. But once the browsers were open and it came time to load 8 tabs, Chrome whipped both Opera and Firefox by loading up to about 1.5 seconds faster. Chrome also performed best in JavaScript testing, but was far less efficient in memory utilization with 8 tabs open than either of the two other browsers.

See the full results here, then hit the jump and tell us which browser you like best.

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Mozilla Intern Offers Peak at Multitouch Firefox

Posted by admin on September 3rd, 2009

Get ready to experience the web with your hands, because soon enough, Mozilla will add multitouch support for its Firefox browser and change the way developers think about coding their websites.

Giving you a sneak peek at what’s to come, Firefox intern Felipe Gomes has been busy updating his blog with a video demonstrating the progress of the open-source browser’s multitouch support and showcasing some possible uses of the upcoming feature. In the video, you see Felipe doing everything from playing Pong to manipulating images (resizing and cropping).

“We’re working on exposing the multitouch data from teh system to regular web pages through DOM Events, and all of these demos are built on top of that,” Gomes explains in his blog. “They are simple html pages that receives events for each touch point and use them to build a custom multitouch experience.”

Gomes went on to say that CSS support to detect touchscreen devices will also be added.

Check out the groovy clip here, then hit the jump and tell us what you think.

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Mozilla Finds Some Users Won’t Upgrade to Firefox 3 Because of Porn Habits

Posted by admin on August 28th, 2009

According to a recent study by Mozilla, the number one reason for users not upgrading from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 was the new location bar, and the fact that it went deep into people’s bookmarks to suggest sites as they typed. More than 25 percent cited this as their reason for keeping the last generation of Firefox as their browser of choice.

“When we expanded the capabilities of the location bar to search against all history and bookmarks in Firefox 3, a lot of people contacted us to say that they had certain bookmarks they didn’t really want to have displayed,” said Firefox’s principal designer, Alex Faaborg. “In some cases users had intentionally hidden these bookmarks in deep hierarchies of folders, somewhat similar to how one might hide a physical object. Having something from your previous browsing displayed to someone else who is using your computer (or even worse) to a large audience of people as you are giving a presentation, is really one of the most embarrassing things that Firefox can do to you.”

On a related note, Mozilla has introduced a private browsing mode in Firefox 3.5. So, you know, if this is the sort of thing you need to have – it’s safe to upgrade now.

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