| FireFox 4 | Internet Explorer 9 | Opera 11 |
|  |  |  |
| 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 |
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