The choice of best browser all depends on the choice of feature you need. But, If you go with popularity Chrome and Firefox are among the top.
Features of browsers by popularity:
1. Chrome: Chrome supports Chrome Instant means your Web page is ready to read before you finish typing the address. This, its speed and minimalist design have deservedly been attracting more and more users to the browser. Leading HTML5 support means it will be ready for the future, application-like Web, and hardware acceleration makes Chrome a speed maven at any task. Hardware acceleration adds even more speed, but Google still hasn’t implemented Do Not Track privacy protection, which every other browser here supports.
2. Firefox: Firefox versions keep coming at a fast clip, now that Mozilla hews to a Chrome-like rapid release schedule. These frequent versions haven’t brought the kind of earth-shattering changes we used to see in new full-number Firefox updates, but the development teams have tackled issues of importance to a lot of Web users—startup time, memory use, and of course security. This lean, fast, customizable browser can hold its own against any competitor, and it offers graphics hardware acceleration and good HTML5 support. Also, Firefox by Mozilla being a open-source projects keeps a healthy relation between the users and the developers.
3. IE9: Microsoft’s latest browser is faster, trimmer, more compliant with HTML5—a major improvement over its predecessor. It also brings some unique capabilities like tab-pinning and hardware acceleration, but it’s falling behind after a long period since its release, and only Windows 7 and Vista users need apply.
4. Opera: Like the other current browsers Opera is fast, compliant with HTML5, and spare of interface. Long an innovator, recently it’s added support for HTML5 getUserMedia, which lets webpages access your webcam (with your permission, of course). Opera’s Turbo speeds up the Web on slow connections through caching. Extension support actually followed other browsers, but Oslo still impresses with tab stacking, visual mouse gestures, a built-in Bittorrent client, and live Speed Dial tile apps.
5. Safari: Windows users may be losing Apple’s browser as an option, since the company didn’t update it to version 6, as it did the Mac version. Safari is a fast, beautiful browser, and the Reader view and Reading List makes it even more enticing—though the former is equaled in Maxthon. Good support for HTML 5 features will also be important. Safari’s gorgeous styling, strong bookmarking, RSS reader, and vivid new-tab page will also appeal to many, but it’s falling behind in speed tests, offers no hardware acceleration under Windows, and starts up the slowest among the software we tested.
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The choice of best browser all depends on the choice of feature you need. But, If you go with popularity Chrome and Firefox are among the top.
Features of browsers by popularity:
1. Chrome: Chrome supports Chrome Instant means your Web page is ready to read before you finish typing the address. This, its speed and minimalist design have deservedly been attracting more and more users to the browser. Leading HTML5 support means it will be ready for the future, application-like Web, and hardware acceleration makes Chrome a speed maven at any task. Hardware acceleration adds even more speed, but Google still hasn’t implemented Do Not Track privacy protection, which every other browser here supports.
2. Firefox: Firefox versions keep coming at a fast clip, now that Mozilla hews to a Chrome-like rapid release schedule. These frequent versions haven’t brought the kind of earth-shattering changes we used to see in new full-number Firefox updates, but the development teams have tackled issues of importance to a lot of Web users—startup time, memory use, and of course security. This lean, fast, customizable browser can hold its own against any competitor, and it offers graphics hardware acceleration and good HTML5 support. Also, Firefox by Mozilla being a open-source projects keeps a healthy relation between the users and the developers.
3. IE9: Microsoft’s latest browser is faster, trimmer, more compliant with HTML5—a major improvement over its predecessor. It also brings some unique capabilities like tab-pinning and hardware acceleration, but it’s falling behind after a long period since its release, and only Windows 7 and Vista users need apply.
4. Opera: Like the other current browsers Opera is fast, compliant with HTML5, and spare of interface. Long an innovator, recently it’s added support for HTML5 getUserMedia, which lets webpages access your webcam (with your permission, of course). Opera’s Turbo speeds up the Web on slow connections through caching. Extension support actually followed other browsers, but Oslo still impresses with tab stacking, visual mouse gestures, a built-in Bittorrent client, and live Speed Dial tile apps.
5. Safari: Windows users may be losing Apple’s browser as an option, since the company didn’t update it to version 6, as it did the Mac version. Safari is a fast, beautiful browser, and the Reader view and Reading List makes it even more enticing—though the former is equaled in Maxthon. Good support for HTML 5 features will also be important. Safari’s gorgeous styling, strong bookmarking, RSS reader, and vivid new-tab page will also appeal to many, but it’s falling behind in speed tests, offers no hardware acceleration under Windows, and starts up the slowest among the software we tested.
Another cool option on choosing the browser can be to flow with the current trend. According to Google Trends, the popularity of Firefox has fallen over the years but it is slowly being over-captured by Chrome.
Google Trends Link: http://www.google.co.in/trends/explore#q=firefox%2C%20chrome%2C%20internet%20explorer%2C%20safari&cmpt=q