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Image via Wikipedia Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 12, sepertinya tidak akan dirilis sesuai jadwal sebelumnya. Mozilla mengatakan masih ada beberapa masalah yang harus diperbaiki pada web browser tersebut. Seperti dikutip dari   Macworld , Selasa (22/2/2011), seorang petinggi Mozilla, Christian Legnitto, mengatakan bahwa Beta 12 ini seharusnya merupakan versi Final Beta. Namun karena masih perlunya beberapa perbaikan, kemungkinan Beta 13 akan hadir. "Rencananya Beta 12 merupakan versi Beta terakhir, tetapi kami masih memerlukan Beta 13 jika kembali ditemukan masalah pada Beta 12," ujar Legnitto. Mozilla mendapat tekanan berat dari pesaing mereka, Microsoft , yang akan segera merilis Internet Explorer 9 . Microsoft menjanjikan akan merilis web browser terbaru mereka itu pada kuartal pertama 2011.

According to Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, Microsoft is getting ready to roll out IE version 9 in September. As per some leaked report, Microsoft is expected to release the Beta version in August. The Beta is supposed to feature more user interfaces. The Web Developers are keenly waiting for the new browser. There is a significant improvement of Internet Explorer 9 in comparison with Internet Explorer 8, with considerably improved standards compliance and functionality. The new build that Microsoft released so far is mainly targeted for the Web Developers. It includes new Microsoft Java Script Engine and the new graphic subsystem, integrated with a home page full of test sites. There is no security or no Back button. The company released three platform previews to show the IE 9 engine. However, this is a very simple interface. Perhaps the company wants everybody to wait till the release. Microsoft didn't announce any Release date for the final version. But, th...

It shocks me as a devoted Firefox user to say this, but Internet Explorer 9 could very well leapfrog the competition in the race of next-generation of web browsers in 2010 thanks to a groundbreaking platform-wide implementation of a hardware-accelerated renderer that I think is quite literally “a free upgrade for the web”. What makes IE9’s implementation of hardware-acceleration so compelling is that it has major real-world benefits and its completely transparent to both end-user and web developers. Using the new capabilities in Direct2D instead of GDI, IE9 is able to rendering all the visual elements of websites much faster and smoother using the powers of the graphics processing unit (GPU), instead of the CPU. One example of where this functionality really shines is in the Bing Maps demo where continuously panning the map is just as smooth as navigating a map in a 3D strategy game.