Browser War II: attack of DOMs is contributing new features and user experience. With 17 percent of the browser market and growing, Firefox has been slowly gaining ground on Microsoft’s IE with 75 percent of the market share.
Mozilla announced today that Firefox 3.0 beta 4 is publicly available to download, with new enhancements.
If a healthy and fair competition carries on, we can expect better results in web standards, user accessibility.
Firefox is widely known,but i prefer so the Opera browser may need an introduction. Opera is known for its speed and its multitude of features. It’s available for a wide range of platforms; in addition to Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, Opera runs on FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows Mobile, and OS/2, among others.
Opera includes an embedded chat client and mail client, the latter of which includes support for RSS news feeds. (In this review, I will focus only on the RSS features of the mail client, for the sake of a fair comparison with Firefox, which lacks email capabilities.) Because it’s not open source software, Opera has no “extensions” like those of Firefox. Despite being closed source, Opera is very customizable, via both the preferences menus and the manipulation of the plain-text configuration files.
Opera is yesteryears browsers having very less community support. Unlike Opera and IE, firefox is secure, provides better user accessibility, live bookmarks, RSS feeds and many feature. One of the peculiar feature of FF is Session Restore. That is when there is unclean shutdown of FF then earlier session can be restored in next run of Firefox.
Opera and Firefox came in same time line but FF is growing and proving best browsing features to its users. Opera will follow Netscape Browser for sure.