A Cheat Sheet To All the Browser Betas

Harry writes "I can't remember another time when there were so many Web browsers in prerelease form — 2009 should be a really, really good year for final browser versions. I have posted a quick recap of the state of the upcoming versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari." It is nice to see a healthy market of competition driving innovation in a market that has been largely stagnant in recent history. What do other folks see on the scorecard?

Comments

Well..

[Creepy Crawler]

Firefox: The only real browser right now. Supports a bunch of anti-crapware plugins (like adblock plus, which gets rid of /. ads) and general power-user scripts for those who want them. Aside from that, its everywhere on every platform that supports any form of graphical manager.

IE: MS has had to work because they prior have sucked and dragged down most every website that does "IE only" websites. It's a good thing that Firefox and standards are taking a front seat.

Opera: They're still around on X86 platforms? I thought they died out and only did DS and Wii browsers and diddled with X86 adware. Havent looked at them since their software didnt fit on a floppy.

Chrome: eh? Its alpha buggyware with none of the plugins we're used to. Im not going to even look at it until it has more what I would consider basic features.

Safari: I dont own a mac. I dont care to own a mac. And I dont even want to pirate OSX for my very compatible Thinkpad-T61 to run it. And pretty much every software ported from OSX to Windows is bad, and I mean BAD.

Konqueror: Too bad I mainly run Gnome and dont usually run KDE, but where's this browser? It traditionally has ran rather well for me, but Im not sure of the recent features.

Re:Well..

[Anonymous Coward]

You are an idiot and Opera is far superior to them all.

Re:Well..

[Creepy Crawler]

And I also posted this post so long ago. And I still stand by it.

Re:Well..

[Creepy Crawler]

When I said that (under a previous account), it was not free. It was ad-ware or pay-ware.

Even now, I have a problem with possible sources of spyware as evidenced by Opera as a form of ad revenue. I also have questions about firefox, but Iceweasel fixes those concerns.

Ignorance is believing what M$ has to say.

[Erris]

"M$" is making IE8 standards-compatible by default, and it's telling web site operators (especially high-volume ones) to add a tag to make the browser drop down to "compatibility mode" or "quirks mode" that allow the site to be viewed

It's funny how no other browsers need this tag and how much work this simple tag requires. I'm afraid the simple tag did not work. Most of these so called "optimized" sites already use browser identification and should have already implemented M$'s quirk tag in their IE8 specific code.

Who the hell gave you an "informative" modpoint for spouting the M$ party line like that? Two minutes of thought with the most rudimentary of knowledge proves your explanation implausible.