I saw that Apple has released Safari 4 Beta

I love the way that Apple approaches design and I keep hoping upon hope that they will someday deliver a better, faster  browser instead of one that seems fast for a few things but cannot be your day to day default browser.

I think Firefox is great, fast and ugly.  I know you can skin it, etc.  You cannot turn an ugly troll like Firefox and Explorer into a princess like Safari 4 Beta.  You also cannot teach that princess (Safari 4) to walk and chew gum at the same time.

The game changer might just be Opera 10 (now in Alpha) which I will cover in a separate review.

Here are the raw browser speed test results for Firefox 3.06, Safari 4 and Internet Explorer 8:

Now just wait a second, you say, that’s not right, I thought that Firefox was the fastest!

In actually fact, it’s the fastest stable/compatible browser and today, in my humble opinion the one you want to use as your day to day default browser.

If you want a car to go really really fast, just take out all the things that weight it down, like brakes for instance!

While Safari has great speed results (especially considering how bad they were before under Safari 3) it could not even post this article.  It’s simply not compatible with major web applications like WordPress.

Explorer 8 has continuous crashes and strange bugs relating to Adobe flash.

Firefox is the worker that needs no management.  It’s the only one I update this site with.

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Download the new Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 at : Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Download Now! (from the Firefox dev pages)

Yes, as the home page for this Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 codename “Shiretoko” says “It’s Coming Soon”. I’d advise you check it today instead.Why? Because it’s the fastest browser on this or any other planet. Here is the latest browser speed test report comparing Google Chrome, Various versions of Firefox (including 3.1b2), Safari (surprisingly slow) and Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer IE 8 Beta 2 (the slowest of the bunch):
Based on recent reports, can anyone tell me how microsoft can throw a billion dollars and 7 years of development  into Internet Explorer Development and come out dead last in performance and 2nd in popularity? Whoever is responsible for that should be flipping burgers somewhere by next week.

The current rate of adoption across the different browsers currently (November 2008) looks like this:

Firefox - 44.2%

• Internet Explorer 7 - 26.6%
• Internet Explorer 6 - 26.9%
• Google Chrome - 3.1%
• Mozilla - 0.4%
• Apple Safari - 2.7%
• Opera - 2.3%

Statistics sourced from W3Schools Browser Stats Project

This release is all about a massive boost in performance for all your websites that use Javascript - It’s called The TraceMonkey Javascript Engine. The performance is really good In fact for comparison on Gmail it’s almost 20% faster than Explorer 8 Beta 2.

Performance enhancements in the Gecko rendering engine also give great speed gains over the current versions of Explorer 8 Beta 2 and yes, even against Apple’s very fast Safari Browser.

Private Browsing is also new in this release - Go anywhere incognito and leave no traces.

There will be one more beta release before the final version is available for download.  I will be there to help make Firefox Download Day history again.  Last time a new official version was released it set internet world records for the most downloads in a single day.  The even sent out personalized PDF certificates thanking people for downloading it on that day to help them make the new worlds record.

DOWNLOAD FIREFOX 3.1 Beta 2 NOW AND HAVE A REALLY FAST DAY

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