2The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Private Browsing
The latest rage in new Web browsers is private browsing, offering users the ability to surf the Web without having the browser store cookies and other evidence of their browsing session. One of the first to implement this type of feature was Apple-
3The New Browser Wars in Pictures – InPrivate Browsing
Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8 calls its implementation of private browsing InPrivate browsing.
4The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Incognito
Incognito mode is the private browsing feature in the beta of Google Chrome.
5The New Browser Wars in Pictures – No History
All newer browsers, such as IE 8, make it simple to remove traces of a browsing session after surfing.
6The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Extended Secure Connections
The current wave of browsers is providing more detailed information about secure connections on Web sites. Also, they can detect when a site uses strong Extended Validation SSL certificates, displaying a green security bar when accessing sites that use EV-SSL. Here-
7The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Green Is Good
Firefox 3 also displays green for sites using EV-SSL and provides detailed information about a site-
8The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Bad Security Match
Many new browsers, including Google Chrome, display a warning when a site URL and the certificate domain don-
9The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Security Exceptions
In an example of this problem, in Firefox 3, if a user types https://gmail.com he or she will be warned, as the security certificate for Gmail is for https://mail.google.com.
10The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Auto-complete Addresses
Nearly all new browsers have improved address bar features that search through entire Web pages in history to offer auto-complete choices. Opera had one of the first, and still best, implementations of this feature.
11The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Suggest a Site
Modern browsers such as IE 8 can, somewhat controversially, track site usage and suggest Web sites to users based on their browsing history.
12The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Speed Browsing
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13The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Grouped Tabs
Browser tabs that have been launched from the same Web page are color-coded in IE 8 to help sort through multiple open tabs.
14The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Extend It
One of the biggest strengths of Firefox has been its extensive collection of add-ons and extensions; Firefox 3 improves on the management and discovery of add-ons.
15The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Accelerated Content
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16The New Browser Wars in Pictures – NextGen Standards
Newer standards capabilities are slowly working their way into new browsers. Here, Safari uses features of HTML 5.
17The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Testing, Testing
All of the latest browsers or browser betas can pass the popular Acid2 test, though most struggle to pass the newer Acid3 test.
18The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Compatibility Mode
While IE 8 has improved standards support, the problems this causes with sites optimized for older versions have led to an IE 7 compatibility mode in IE 8.
19The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Don-
Features that attempt to detect malware and phishing Web sites are included in most browsers, such as Firefox 3.
20The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Desktop Web
Offline and desktop application features are appearing in the most cutting-edge new browsers. Here, Chrome uses Google Gears to provide desktop features for Web applications.
21The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Web Helpers
Along with its offline application support, Firefox 3 has the ability to use Web-based applications as helper apps within the browser.
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