Two key areas are standards compliance, measured by the Acid3 test, and Javascript-rendering abilities, measured by the SunSpider Javascript benchmark. If an insight into the world of browsers almost nobody has heard of excites you, prepare to embark on a thrilling journey.įor each browser we provide some specific details on how they perform technically. Of all the browsers people use to visit this site month to month, not a single one of these five accounts for even as much as 0.1 per cent market share. Here, tested and prodded, used and abused, are the five browsers with the most vocal fans on CNET UK. So it's time we devoted some serious attention to the most popular underdog Web browsers to see what all the fuss was about.
Now, Microsoft is planning on letting European users of Windows 7, Vista and XP choose which browser they want to use, and there could be up to ten choices. But there are dozens of others, and every time we don't write about them in a feature about browsers, we're roundly booed at and berated by their devoted fans.
Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome - these are the mainstream browsers you probably know and almost certainly use.
