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IE9, Chrome & Firefox Making Next Generation Browsers

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Your choice in Web browser is about to get more interesting as all three of the top browsers on the market today - Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome - prepare and launch updated beta versions, each offering compelling, and in some cases unique, new features.

Although IE's beta launch is still weeks away, the company has detailed its plans for the improved browser, which include additions like hardware acceleration, HTML5 support and a faster JavaScript engine. Firefox, meanwhile, has added multi-touch support for Windows 7, among other things. And Chrome's latest has added form autofill, plus extension and autofill synchronization.

HTML5 support is probably the biggest component to the IE9 upgrade, even if IE is playing a bit of catch-up to the other browsers on the market. That said, the HTML5 support will be fully hardware-accelerated, meaning, in basic terms, IE can tap into the computer's hardware to speed up browser performance. The browser will introduce support for the HTML5 canvas element, providing hardware-accelerated canvas, video and audio to speed up things like rich Internet applications, online games, video and more.

Google has also announced that a new beta version of Chrome is now available. Chrome 6 features improved browsing speed, autofill, including for credit card details, a range of new option for syncing across platforms and a simplifying of the address and search box. Writing on the Chrome blog, software engineer James Hawkins wrote that Compared to our previous beta release, our newest beta hits a 15 per cent speed improvement.

The company has also announced a Chrome to Phone synchronisation tool for Chrome web browser users with Google Android mobile phones.


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    Reeni
    What do I have to do to have IE9 fill in my name and password?
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    orkut scraps
    chrome is better than any browsers

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