IE9 VS. FX4 Who will Win the Browser Wars?

IE9 VS. FX4 Who will Win the Browser Wars?

IE9 VS. FX4 Who will Win the Browser Wars?

The latest Internet Explorer news is both good and bad for Microsoft. On the good aspect, the ewsest version of redmond's browser, seems to be gaining favor with web users. Acording to the latest usage-tracker browser statistics that IE9 occupy 3.56% worldwide market on March. It is quite well for such a new browser that officially launched just over 2 weeks.

This is a good results compared to that of the last years. Google Chrome, meanwhile, is gaining users at a breakneck pace. Praised for its speed and simplicity, Chrome had 11.57 percent of the worldwide market last month, nearly double its 6.13-percent share in March 2010. In April 2009, Chrome had a tiny 1.79 percent share, while IE's slice of the browser pie was slightly below 68 percent, according to Net Applications.

Meanwhile how are the FX doing?

In March 2011, Mozilla Firefox's share was nearly 22 percent, down from 24.52 percent in March 2010. Apple Safari was at 6.61 percent last month, up from 4.65 percent for the same period a year ago.

Some highlights on FX:

* It has a clever interface that lets you swipe to the right to see thumbnails of tabls, and swipe to the left to get navigational tools and settings, thereby letting you bypass your phone's menu button (always a plus in my ebook reader);

* It has a mobilized version of Firefox's Awesome Bar that lets you type into the address bar to search your history, Google, Amazon, and other sources;

* It has Add-ons! Just as with the browser I know think of as Traditional Firefox, this one lets third-party developers build extensions that add new features and change stuff around. Among the ones already available: one that lets you change the browser user agent screen to fool sites into thinking you're using another browser, a mobile version of Adblock Plus, a text-zooming utility, and one that lets you tweet from the address bar;

* You can sync your history, bookmarks, tabs, and other settings with other copies of Firefox on other devices;

* It sports a rendering engine which Mozilla touts as being much faster than the one used by Google's browser. It did feel pretty darn snappy to me, although the browser launched slowly on an HTC Evo 4G, with a splash screen and a "please wait" message;

* You can save any page as a PDF, which is useful for salting away information you'll want to refer to later.

IE9 is getting favorable reviews and Microsoft appears to have silenced its critics, who knocked the sluggish performance, weak security, and lack of support for Web standards that plagued earlier versions of the browser. But does version 9 have the right stuff to slow IE's long-term slide?

If IE9 does help reverse Microsoft's market-share slide, its impact will likely be tempered by Redmond's aggressive campaign to rid the world of Internet Explorer 6, the company's notoriously insecure, 10-year-old browser that still had an 11.6 percent global share in March. While less than 3 percent of Internet users in the U.S. run IE6, the browser remains popular in Asia. In China, for instance, IE6 has a 33.8 percent share, according to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 Countdown site.

IE9 VS. FX4 Who will Win the Browser Wars?

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