There are certain things that do need to be remembered during an online shopping experience. But the other typical use-case scenario involves folks who are shopping for gifts for other members of the household, and they want those gifts to be secret.

Firefox 3.5 formally inaugurates a similar feature with 'Private Browsing.' Yes, we know there's stuff that folks don't want their bosses knowing they're looking at. We decided to test that theory for ourselves, with a new series of tests that pits the two most viable choices for alternatives to Microsoft Internet Explorer against one another in everyday, real-world tasks.Ĭhrome users have already come across that browser's 'Incognito' function, which brings up a window exclusively for pages whose history and cookies will not be tracked permanently. So while Firefox has made extremely significant gains, it may take open source developers until version 4.0 for it to catch up with Chrome in the speed department.įirefox's developers tell Betanews that version 3.5 makes up for that gap in the functionality department, by providing tools and resources that Chrome currently cannot match. In recent Betanews tests, the Chrome 3 beta has overtaken the stable release of Apple Safari 4 as the fastest Web browser publicly available, posting a performance index score that's 83% faster than Firefox 3.5 RC3 on Windows XP SP3. While Betanews tests confirm the new version literally blows away its own predecessor in terms of speed, operating two-and-one-half times faster in page rendering and functionality on average, your own eyes will tell you it's a much faster browser.Īnd those same eyes will tell you that Google Chrome is already a much faster browser, by virtue of a supremely fast V8 JavaScript engine that its developers have been refining since version 1 made its debut last year. This is the week that the Mozilla organization is expected to unveil what may very well be the most significant half-point release in its history: the 3.5 edition of the Firefox browser.

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