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Firefox 3.1 shaping up well under the codename Minefield

The browser wars. Apparently, webdom cannot get enough of it. And of the four major competitors in this field (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera), Firefox clearly knows the way to go. Fast.
Of these, the players holding the most share are IE and Firefox, holding almost all the market between them.
Microsoft’s IE 8 is in the [...]

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And here comes Google Chrome (the minimal browser?)

Google Chrome was released overnight (for those of us in my country). And what an offering…
First note of disappointment: the installer was an online one, much like the very hateable Windows Live thing. Unlike that, however, it actually worked, but I would very much have preferred a standalone installer. And not able to choose the [...]

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Google Chrome web browser - how good can it be?

It seems that Google will be releasing a brand new browser into the market - Chrome. We are still 8 hours from its beta release, as of the time of the writing of this post.
Named for the frame on its GUI, should we be expecting much?
To begin with, its is more of a stripped down [...]

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