Friday, March 7, 2014

Comparing Web Browsers: Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox

There was a time when only one browser was vastly superior to another, but now due to the emergence of various web browsers, it has become tough for you to choose the best one amongst so many varieties. Fortunately, you cannot go wrong with any of popular web browsers anymore, but there are a few things here and there that give each of its own competitive edge of the others.
Here is the comparison among the most popular web browsers: Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.


Internet Explorer
Safari
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Developer
Microsoft
Apple Inc.
Google
Mozilla Foundation
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
First Public Release Version
1.0
0.8
0.2.149.27
0.1
First Public Release Year
August 16, 1995
January 7, 2003
September 2, 2008
September 23, 2002
Software License
Proprietary
Proprietary (browser), GNU LGPL (WebKit)
Google Chrome Terms of Service (Google Chrome's closed-source features), BSD (Chromium executable)
MPL, MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license
Accessibility Features
Ad Filtering, Caret Navigation, Full-text History Search, Text-to-Speech, Voice Control
Caret Navigation, Full-text History Search, Mouse Gesture, Spatial Navigation, Text-to-Speech, Voice Control
Full-text History Search, Spatial Navigation, Text-to-Speech, Voice Control
Caret Navigation
Platform and OS
Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris OS, HP-UX
Mac OS X
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X
Windows, Mac, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, Other/Unix
Current Layout Engine
Trident
WebKit
WebKit
Gecko
Mobile Tech Support
None
WML
None
None
         ·         SMIL
         ·         VML

          ·         XHTML 1.0
          ·         XHTML 1.1

           ·    XHTML 1.0
   ·    XHTML 1.1


         ·         MathML
         ·         XForms
         ·         XHTML 1.0
         ·         XHTML 1.1

Plugins and Syndicated Content Support
          ·         ActiveX, Atom, Other Web Feed, RSS

          ·         Atom, NPAPI, RSS
NPAPI
           ·         Atom, NPAPI, RSS
Protocol Support

          ·         IPv6, Proxy Possibilities

IPv6
Proxy Possibilities
            ·         BitTorrent, Gopher, IPv6, Proxy Possibilities

Image Formats Supported
          ·         None
2D Canvas, JPEG 2000, PDF, SVG, TIFF, XBM
2D Canvas, PDF, SVG, XBM
            ·         2D Canvas, APNG, SVG
Average Market Share
18%
5.92%
25.7%
25.2%
CPU Usage
18.1%
4.4%
3%
7.6%
Overall Performance Rankings
5/5
2/5
1/5
2/5


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