Google Chrome is without doubt one of the  fastest browsers around and has clearly raised the bar of high speed browsing even on slow internet connections. It is exceptionally quick at startup and is lighter than  most of the other web browsers as far as system requirements are concerened. It comes with loads of other features as well, some of which are.

Speed: As far as speed is concerned, Google Chrome leads the pack followed by Safari 5 and Opera 10. 52. It loads quickly form the desktop and installs without a fuss.

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Mozilla has just  launched Firefox 4 beta for public download. The new version comes with multiple code and design changes. On the design side, the change most visible is the location of the browser tabs which have been moved to the top of Firefox window and above the address bar somewhat similar to Google Chrome.  Firefox users have been accustomed to see browser tabs located below the address bar.

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Justin asks: My Firefox 3.6 keeps on crashing every time I try to open multiple tabs. There was no such problem in Firefox 3.5. How can I downgrade from Firefox 3.6 to 3.5 ?

These days the speed of development of Web Browsers is such that we hear about new releases every other weekend. Most of the web browser developers today are trying to add advanced features to their browsers in order to gain market share.

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Here is a video of how Safari Reader in Safari 5 filters out articles from the webpages. We have randomly choosen 4 webpages. 3 of these webpages have articles while the 4^th one doesn’t . Note how Safari 5 replaces the Reader icon in the address bar with the common RSS icon when it encounters a webpage without articles.

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Among all the new features introduced in Safari 5, the one that stood out was the Safari Reader. Why? Because perhaps it is one of few innovations that developers of other browsers haven’t yet thought about. All of them are working on improving JavaScript engines, extensions and increasing speeds but Apple is the first one to introduce something as innovative as Safari reader.

In simple terms, what the Safari reader does is that it auto detects the articles within webpages, and pulls them out for simple article only view. This means that you don’t waste your time in figuring out what portion of the webpage is the article and what is the advertising.

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Apple has released Safari 5 for public usage. It has come with loads and loads of new features. Apple announced it by a press release during the ongoing WWDC 10 . It is claimed that the new features give it a performance boost of almost 30% over Safari 4. Here are the other new features of Safari 5 .

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