Mar 28, 2011

Firefox 4 vs Internet Explorer 9 vs Opera 11- Comparison Table

FireFox 4 Internet Explorer 9 Opera 11
firefox4 ie9 opera
GUI Good Good Awesome
Hardware Acceleration Great for heavy content such as Flash video streaming It is found number one in hardware acceleration test but Firefox4 was not launched till then Average
Browsing speed Awesome browsing speed and you will experience great browsing Good browsing speed Fastest browsing speed and great for slow connections using Opera Turbo which has capability to compress webpage graphics such as images
Support for HTML5 and CSS latest version Full support Better than Opera but it has some issues with a few websites such as it is not supporting Blogger stats dashboard completely. A lot of compatibility issues with many websites specially ASP apps based dynamic websites such as Orkut
Plugins Ultimate treasure of highly advanced add-ons but currently FireFox 4 is blocking some very useful add-ons such as IDM flv downloader Average Below average and not so rich if we talk about plugins
Synchronization Advanced Synchronization option and we can sync everything eve our passwords too. FireFox offers full security for syn data. We can also setup own server for baked up browser data No options to setup a sync server and not sync account option Great and easy to use sync option and we can easily sync our browser data using our free Opera account. But we can’t sync passwords.
Private Browsing One click private browsing option Same as Firefox 4 Highly advanced private browsing and you can run as private browsing tab along with normal browsing
Security As FireFox is an open source app so we can’t say more about security but Mozilla has taken strict steps regarding browsing security. Internet Explorer has been considering the most secure Internet Browser since a very long time and most of ecommerce websites are created compatible to IE Average security
Bookmark Management Full featured i.e you can create different folders for bookmarked links and can import and export bookmarks anytime Average Same as FireFox 4
Web Developers tools Web Console to examine webpage,error console and Source code viewer JScript Profiler
a good tool for JavaScript debugging,Source viewer but there are found bugs in developer tool in IE9
Opera DragonFly is an amazing and outstanding tool to inspect page element and found great. Using Opera Dragon Fly it is very easy to find any HTML and CSS element.
Session saving No No yes and we can save a browsing season to load it any time
Wand Password Feature Not so secured and passwords are viewable in Options and it does not good for security Not so evolved and you can not delete a selected password Fully evolved feature
Auto Form Filler Not available but add-ons are available NO In-Built auto form filler
Website Blocking Feature Available Available Available
Speed Dial NO (add-on available) Yes Yes
License Free Free Free

If you are not satisfied or not agree with any of the point given above then feel free to discuss in comments because we love your comments.

3 comments:

IE9 has interesting tracking protection with auto ad-blocking feature.

Firefox developers tools are "third-party", but possibly the best - the legendary Firebug.

Security has 2 sides - numbers of "holes" and support for security protocols. IE is "champion" in both, Opera "fails" in both ;) Meaning - that while IE supports even things like hardware key authentification, Opera is the least vulnerable browser in the market.

btw, what about Chrome ? You can't pretend there is no elephant in the room.

Actually Chrome requires more study to compare it.
Can you help me by sending your own review for Chrome. It will be published with your name and website.
You are most welcome for it and if you like it kindly drop your review on my email shams767@gmail.com.

Best Regards
Mambo

I just started using opera last week and the GUI blows the others away in ways the other browsers haven't though of yet.

tab recycle bin - opera
login 'key' for passwords on the toolbar = opera
built in RSS reader = Opera
built in email client = Opera
speed dial preview page = opera and safari
turbo mode for slower networks = opera

Brent

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