Review between the New Versions of Firefox 3 Versus Internet Explorer 8

The Firefox 3 Version has just started on June 17th and now there has been spectuation whether New Version of Firefox 3 is better and how much it is than Compared to IE 8 which is also recently came up.

So the above is the Review between the two Popular Browser Firefox 3 and IE 8.

Review between the New Versions of Firefox 3 Versus Internet Explorer 8

In Firefox 3.0 a user gets detailed information about the security of the Website whereas in IE it doesn’t . Bookmarking, which really works same with the both browsers Firefox 3 and IE 8.

Security appears to be beefed up in this release of Firefox. Reviewers purposefully infected the test PC with some particularly annoying adware programs. IE infection was immediate, but Mozilla was able to stave off the malware. In addition to this apparent heartier resistance to malware, Firefox 3.0 integrates with anti-virus applications and will notify AV software when downloading .exe files. There is also native malware protection; the application will give warning when accessing sites that contain malware. The customization possibilities with Firefox 3.0 are endless. There are add-ons for everything from external download managers to language translators. This version also supports associating Podcasts and Videocasts with media playback tools.

Firefox 3.0 can now detect a site using high-level EV SSL certificate security and URL bar will turn green in the location bar. While IE had this feature since a version update in early 2007.

Other features like Auto Complete are more robust in Firefox 3.0 and others like resume-able download are pretty much non-existent in IE.

Feature-wise, Firefox has leaped ahead of IE. However there is still an issue where it is lacking and that’s in performance.

Firefox 3.0 scores higher under Sunspider’s JavaScript benchmarking tool than IE (IE 8 11648.6 ms versus Mozilla at 4281.4 ms) that only showed that Firefox was better at handling Java scripting.

Downloading of Particualr graphics and children sites like Disney Website, Nicklodeon Channel’s site showed that in both browers, IE 8 took lesser time to load the page and fast when compared to Mozilla which took almost double time . Loading the home page for Disney.com; IE took 21 seconds to load and Mozilla was 46 seconds.

In Navigating application Firefox 3 is not affective when compared to IE 8. In the business environment, performance of a browser usually has an edge over features and customizations, especially since users are usually limited by usage policy as to what they can or can’t do in a browser anyway. If performance issues consist with Firefox, it will probably not be feasible for most businesses to migrate from IE which come bundled with the OS anyway.

At last Firefox 3 has comes up with some good improvements and features (some not even available in IE) plus its enhanced malware security. Firefox will continue to singe the stranglehold IE has in the browser space. Whether it can reduce IE 8 browers remains yet to be seen.