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Browsers keep getting better - but is Firefox still the best?

Back in September, we compared all of the major PC browsers to discover which one was best (and looked at Opera and Safari too). The answer? Firefox, but only just: Google's Chrome, despite being an early version, was already nipping at our favourite browser's heels.

How to get the best Firefox features in Chrome today

The Google Chrome browser is designed to be lightweight in comparison to what it perceives are bloated offerings from Microsoft and Mozilla among others.

For some, however, it's too lightweight.

So if you've put off switching due to Chrome lacking key features that you've come to rely on in other web browsers, then read

Firefox, for all its great functionality and superior performance, has long been a laggard when it comes to managing PDF content on the Web.

Apple's Safari and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsers both give users the option of reading Portable Document Format content within the browser, while Firefox forces users to navigate to PDFs through its Downloads window.

After the release of IE 8, the question now arises is about security? How secure is IE8 compared to other browsers like Firefox ,Chrome ,Opera or Apple’s Safari.

In previous blog posts, John Lilly has explained that we cannot identify precisely how many users Firefox has because there is nothing uniquely identifying in the Firefox browser and that's something we're not interested in changing just for the sake of better accounting.

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