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Who would have thought that one day Firefox, the internet browser that took on the might of Microsoft and survived to change the rules of web browsing, will be playing catch up. But in the last couple of months this is exactly what has happened. The fiery Fox fell — only if marginally — behind the dashing Safari (http://www.apple.com/safari/), the versatile Opera (http://www.opera.com/browser/next/), a born-again Internet Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx) and the no-nonsense Chrome (http://www.google.com/chrome). Its Gecko engine was getting a little long in tooth, its feature set was oh-so archaic when compared to the likes of Opera and, worst of all, it was failing to get some decent score in Acid test (http://acid3.acidtests.org/). Firefox 3 was in need of some serious patching up.
Luckily, Mozilla’s team of open source developers has some very bright people. This team went back to the drawing board and what was supposed to be an incremental update targeted to bring out Firefox 3.1, turned out to be a major rehaul, resulting in Firefox 3.5 (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html), a browser that not only caught up with the much-celebrated Chrome in speed, but also, reminiscent of the old days, brought forth support for emerging web technologies. I am putting the browser through its paces since last Tuesday, the day it was launched, and here is how it stacks up against competition:
Speed: This is not to be confused with the time that a program takes to launch. Instead, it is the speed at which the browser renders a web page. The speed of rendering depends on the type of web page and the elements, like Java script and Flash, which are embedded in it. Chrome is still the undisputed king here, but with a new rendering engine in Gecko 1.9.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_%28layout_engine%29), the latest Firefox build matches Opera 10 and Safari in terms of speed. The difference between these four browsers is in milliseconds, a big change from the time of Firefox 3 when the difference was perceptible.
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