The Browsers strike back

Many of you use an different brower than IE, From firefox to Opera to Safari (No uber, Maxthon isn't really a different browser) For different reasons, security, dislike of MS, features, standards compliance etc.

Recently, Opera became free, which started a wave of people moving to that browser. A new browser came out, based on Firefox, but with some added APIs for doing things such as blogging, Flock adds to the fray.

But the leader of the revolution is Firefox, now with an estimated 11% world market share (greater in some areas, lower in others, duh), it takes the largest chunck of market away from IE.

Today may be an important day for Firefox users, according to Neowin, Firefox version 1.5 will be comming out sometime today.

Version 1.5 adds new features and improvements such as: Faster page rendering, instant Back/Forward (Opera has had this for a while), a Clear Private Data feature (again, already seen in Opera) and a new binary update system that will not have you download a complete installer just to upgrade your version of the browser. There are a few rendering engine enhancements as well (Support for SVG, Canvas, CSS3 Columns, Javascript 1.6)

I recomend you take a look, or upgrade if you already use Firefox, but if you still use IE, you should consider getting a different browser.

(for the times you NEED IE, Firefox has this nice new plugin called IE Tab, It lets you use the IE renderer in a firefox tab at will.)