Firefox Browser For Mac Review

Pocket by Firefox. Save content. Absorb knowledge. Your Firefox Account. Make the most of your Firefox experience, across every device. Firefox for Enterprise. Same speed and safety you trust, designed just for business. Firefox for Fire TV. Watch videos. 2 days ago There are five browser projects that are under active development for the Mac, and we review each of them here. We review and benchmark Safari, Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi and Firefox to find out which.

With the latest versions of Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox recently released, it became time for a browser comparison to test whether or not improvements in standards and raw speed have made a difference. This is especially true given the rapid shift in market share from Internet Explorer's one-time dominance: according to Statcounter, Internet Explorer currently commands just 61 percent of the browser market, while Firefox has climbed to second place with 30 percent market share and the last 9 percent shared between Chrome, Opera, Safari and smaller rivals. In the spirit of full disclosure and honest journalism, we should disclose that our primary browser on a daily basis is Firefox. Personal usage habits aside, this review will serve as a comprehensive and objective survey of the current browsing landscape. All of our testing was conducted on anotebook connected to a Wi-Fi network to simulate real world usage. The laptop is a Dell Latitude D630 with 2GB of RAM, a Core Duo processor and Windows XP. The tests were not pursued in a lab environment, but should be representative of what an end user would expect.

Our review of these four popular browsers began with fresh installs and updates of each one. All testing was done under actual usage scenarios with other applications running in the background.

Each test also began with a fresh browser restart. Chrome 2 Firefox 3.5 Internet Explorer 8 Safari 4 industry compliance testing Our first test is from The Web Standards Project (webstandards.org) which is the home of the Acid2 and Acid3 browser tests. These tests verify that browsers are compliant with major web standards including W3C, HTML 4.0, XML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, and DOM and ECMA standards.

Acid2 is designed to expose browsers and applications that inaccurately render simpler web content, particularly tests for W3C HTML and CSS compliance that should be common on the web. All four browsers passed the Acid2 test with no issues, errors, or delays, though it was originally launched in 2005 and has been used as a target for accuracy even by Microsoft, which until recent years had not felt compelled to fully support W3C. Acid3, however, was a 2008 update to Acid2 and was considerably more of a challenge for our four contestants. It builds upon Acid2 and stresses compliance with the DOM (document object model) and JavaScript, the latter of which is crucial to most modern web apps like Google Docs. Earning a 100/100 on the Acid3 test means a browser has loaded and completed 100 sub-tasks and successfully changed the graphic colors with each subtask. Safari 4 was the only browser to fully complete this test and earned a 100/100 score -- a not surprising result given the efforts of the WebKit team to target the Acid tests as a goal. Firefox came close at 93/100; Chrome, which also uses a modern WebKit engine, matched Apple at 100/100 but unusually produced an error stating that the 'linktest failed.'