Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera or Safari: Which Browser Is Best?

Pcmag.com The browser battle has been raging almost as long as the internet has existed. But with new competitors in the fray and longtime entries revving up new technologies, the stakes have never been higher.

In the late nineties and early aughts, it was Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versus Netscape Navigator. Fast forward 20 years, and IE’s proprietary technologies for enabling interactive, application-like websites have given way to W3C standards-based features for delivering the online experience.

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Google Chrome Beta Can 'Prerender' Web Pages

Image via CrunchBase PCMag.com : "One of the most recent builds of the Google Chrome browser offers support for an intriguing new feature: 'prerendering' of Web pages, offering even faster Web browsing by guessing which pages you'll visit next. In the 9.0.576.0 build and subsequent versions of Chrome for Windows and Linux , the new build 'add[s] support for page prerendering', according to the changelog. The feature had previously been part of the open-source Chromium technology. The new Chrome build is part of the Chrome beta channel , and users who use the standard 'stable' Chrome builds must download the beta version." Related articles Chrome Dev Gets Instant Verbatim, Web Prerendering (thechromesource.com) Web Page Prerendering Appears in Chrome Labs (thechromesource.com) View PDF Documents Right in Google Chrome (chris.pirillo.com)

Chrome vs. Firefox: Your Best Arguments

Lifehacker "Back in the day, web browsers didn't mean quite as much. Now they are an integral part of our lives. While we could just go with the system default back in the day, now passionate users support their browsers as fervently as their operating systems. We took the two most popular—Chrome and Firefox—and asked you to prove which one is better. Here's what you said."

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