Comparison between Chrome and Mozilla Firefox 3
One of the new trends with internet browsers is to prevent the browser from storing any data about your browsing sessions. With Microsoft’s InPrivate and Google Chrome’s Incognito, Mozilla is also coming up with a privacy feature for Firefox 3. Such kind of a feature is available in Firefox 3 as a plug in named Stealthier. However, Mozilla is now thinking to integrate the privacy toggle feature within its browser.
Mozilla is implementing such a feature since 2004, when Safari introduced a cache avoiding browsing session. So Mozilla is lastly going to roll out this new feature very soon. However, it will put in new characteristics to it. Like, new passwords will not be saved, autofills for passwords will be disabled, downloads will be discarded, cookies acquired during the ongoing session will also be discarded.
Microsoft’s InPrivate feature, when activated, can show users a small neon symbol that indicates you are browsing in private mode. However, Mozilla plans on keeping the private mode private by not displaying any such signs. In addition, in the privacy mode, Mozilla plans to save the visited pages in the memory and not on the hard disk. However, this might affect memory performance.
Mozilla has been cautious of Google Chrome for some time. Comparative analysis has shown that Chrome is faster than Firefox 3. However, Mozilla claims that its TraceMonkey engine, which is still under development, boost the performance of Firefox 3.1 and leave Chrome’s V8 engine behind the browser race. Mozilla performed some speed tests on its new engine and the test results showed that TraceMonkey is 28 percent faster as compared to Chrome’s V8 engine. Also, when it comes to memory usage, Firefox 3.1 is best to use as compared to Chrome.
If you compare Chrome and Firefox 3, then Chrome ranks superior than Firefox 3. Now let us have a look at the reasons behind this. Mozilla has a strong base of loyal users and working on TraceMonkey. However, it also has a lot of disadvantages. Chrome has a multiprocess environment, which does not allow bad webpage to crash the full browser. With tabbed browsing of Firefox 3, the unavailability of this feature is a great disadvantage. Chrome is likely to affect Firefox’s user base more than IE’s, as per studies.
On the other hand, Google Chrome is still in beta. Firefox 3.1 is in its early stages of development, so you never know which browser may win the race. However, IE seems to be nowhere in the horizon. Even if IE 8 was released by Microsoft in the month of August, Google’s Chrome received all the attention. IE 8 is said to be much slower than Chrome or Firefox 3. In addition it uses a lot of memory. However, IE 8 has one good thing to look forward to. All designers as well as developers are going to cater to it because it is going to be a default feature on all Windows OS runs computers.
Firefox 3 has a few new add-ons, which help the user to enable Google Chrome’s features in Firefox 3. Chromifox is a new add-on, which allows the users to dress up Firefox 3 like Google Chrome. It does not mean you are cheating or copying someone else’s ideas. It just means that your ideas and thinking are up to date with the changing times. One of them is Stealther, which was mentioned above. Another is Speed Dial, which allows direct and immediate access to your websites. You have to select the option “Set as Speed Dial”, in the bookmarks menu, and assign it to a website. Another is Prism, which allows users to run web applications offline or on your desktop. Other add-ons are LocationBar2 and Download Statusbar. Such, add-ons prove that Firefox 3 is an extensible browser, something which Chrome is yet to prove.
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