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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

15 secrets of next-gen browsers

What you need to know about the new versions of the major browsers
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15 secrets of next-gen browsers
Network World Lab Alliance member Thomas Powell makes it part of his Web consulting practice to analyze every new browser to hit the Internet. Powell's deep dive goes past the eye candy user interface upgrades and gets into the technological underpinnings that will have consequences for Web site and network designers.
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IE 8.0 loves add-ons, search, acceleration Amid increasing pressure from competing products from the likes of Google, Mozilla and Apple, Microsoft has released the biggest upgrade to its flagship Web browser in two years with Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8). TechWorld takes the most popular browser on the Internet for a spin and the result is a more extensible and powerful Web experience.

Browser battle: Firefox 3.1 vs. Chrome vs. IE 8 Mozilla's second alpha of Firefox 3.1 is upping the ante in the next-generation browser battle. So how do the main contenders stack up so far now? One thing's for sure, the Firefox team has taken note of Google's recent Chrome release and worked hard to make sure its offering can hold its own.

Google Chrome: Is there anything under the hood? The recent introduction of the Google Chrome browser wildly succeeded in setting the Web abuzz. Web digest after Web digest regurgitates the main points about the obvious user interface features and the cute corroborating comic, but is there more? The answer is yes, a bit of which — like it's foundation and some user-facing features — has already been around the browser world for quite awhile. But others, like several network-focused measures, will serve to be notable advances.

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