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The Features That Make Each Web Browser Unique
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner offers a look at 13 promising features unique to one browser. From Chrome's support for SPDY, to IE9's emphasis on energy efficiency, to Firefox Sync, browser vendors are working hard to establish any edge that might attract more users to their stack of code. And while speed and HTML5 compatibility remain key in the battle of the Web browsers, unique features often point the way forward. 'Given the pace of browser updates these days, don't be surprised to find the best of the bunch being copied by competitors soon,' Wayner writes. 'After all, yesterday's browser bells and whistles are today's must-have features.'"
per usual. Opera Software innovates (tabs, spell-checking, syncing of bookmarks, turbo compression) and others copy.
>>>There was a time when Mozilla combined the email program with the browser, but it stopped this integration long ago.
No. Not really. Look at Mozilla SeaMonkey (direct descendent of Netscape Navigator/Communicator). It includes not just email, but also Usenet newsgroups, relay chat, and a composer.
>>>Safari 5: Easy user agent alterations
Opera has had this for years, allowing users to display sites as Internet Explorer or Firefox-compliant.
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