Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 face off

[Jan]

IE9 and Firefox 4 ready to battle

Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 is coming next week. How do the two shape up?

[Rosaudio]

Chrome is better than both

[Dan C]

Running FF 4 beta... freaking awesome compared to firefox 3... IE 8 was just dead slow. gonna download IE 9 just now and give it a go and then judge ...

[Dan C]

Chrome is better than both

What color is that ?

[Rosaudio]

What color is that ?

Like grey reflective mirroring silver.

[Madhawk]

Chrome is better than both

+ 1

[BubiSparks]

Firefox 4 sucks...

You've gotta install extensions just to get back functionality that used to be default in older versions! And there's practically no compatible extensions available. If FF 5 (Which is only 3 months away) again results in incompatibilites, developers will lose interest and Mozilla will go down the tubes....

Cleaner interface has resulted in dumbing down the browser.

I'll stay with 3.6 for as long as possible......

[alloytoo]

Chrome is better than both

Red 'O' is best

waiting for 11.5

[Joe Average]

IE9 is very smooth to operate, only show the neccessary menus and functionality. The true 64-bit version also adds extra whooooshhh.

[Bluray]

IE9 is very smooth to operate, only show the neccessary menus and functionality. The true 64-bit version also adds extra whooooshhh.

+1, also loving IE9 so far...


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[Lydon]

I'll stick to Chrome, thanks. Everything else seems so clunky in comparison.

[F1ve_Claw]

FireFox all the way. Although on my old, slow laptop Chrome is used but I wouldnt change to it just yet for my pc

[rogerwe]

IE9 and Firefox 4 ready to battle

Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 is coming next week. How do the two shape up?

I thought I would put my bias aside and try IE9 after abandoning it when Firefox first came out. Very slick, but one BIG problem it will never be able to solve:

Firefox has a MASSIVE Add-On repository. I couldn't find even an AdBlock add-on for IE9 . I also very much doubt whether Firebug people will even consider porting it to IE9...heaven forbid!

[Joe Average]

I thought I would put my bias aside and try IE9 after abandoning it when Firefox first came out. Very slick, but one BIG problem it will never be able to solve:

Firefox has a MASSIVE Add-On repository. I couldn't find even an AdBlock add-on for IE9 . I also very much doubt whether Firebug people will even consider porting it to IE9...heaven forbid!

What is the difference between AdBlock in FF and the Pop-Up Blocker (with all its customisable settings) in IE9 ?
In IE9 there is also an extensive Add-In Manager - letting one En/Dis-able any Add-In and also provide you with an idea how long it takes to load, knowing what the impact on your browsing speed would be.

[Praeses]

http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/be...ks/v6/run.html <-- Benchmark for javascript

Firefox 4 RC2 build 3: 3409
Internet Explorer 9: 2214
Google Chrome 11.0.696.14 Beta: 8760

http://html5test.com/ <-- HTML5 support test
Firefox: 255+9
IE9: 130+5
Chrome: 293+13

http://acid3.acidtests.org/ <-- Acid 3 test
Firefox: 97/100
IE9: 93/100
Chrome: 100/100