Views of IE's competition
Microsoft's Internet Explorer may be the browser of choice for many Web surfers, but the browser still lags in new features.
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer has lagged on new features, belatedly adding a pop-up blocker for Windows XP users along with security fixes in SP2. It still doesn't offer tabbed browsing.
Mozilla.org's Firefox browser supports tabbed Web browsing and live bookmarks that can add RSS feeds into the Favorites folder at the click of a mouse.
Opera Software's Opera Web browser claims to load pages more quickly than do some competitors. It comes in a free, ad-supported version and an ad-free version for $39.
Apple Computer's Safari browser is based on KHTML, an open-source rival to Mozilla. It offers such Web browsing standards as tabbed browsing, and claims to load pages up to 3 times faster than Microsoft's version of IE for the Mac.
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