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The web-browser war is once again going to get interesting with Internet Explorer 9 Preview now available for public download promising impressive upcoming features, boasting 100% support for W3C Web Standards (see comparison table after the jump) IE9 will support hardware assisted page rendering, background compiled JavaScript and GPU-powered HTML5 graphics for superior performance.

Firefox 3.6 public download release will go live Thursday, January 21st at 9:30am PST as reported earlier but we now have access to the final build which you can download right now, as you might know Firefox developers have access to FTP servers having exclusive access to all builds - however, these are restricted and will end-up in access denied errors when trying to download anything for example try using this server - ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6/. The good news is with a bit of tinkering we have got access to the final Firefox 3.6 build and you can download it right now using the link posted at the end of the post.

Official announcement from Mozilla has confirmed that Firefox 3.6 download will be made available to public from Thursday, January 21st at 9:30am Pacific Standard Time, an intro video by Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox has also been put online featuring major new enhancements introduced in the latest version of the web-browser (watch video after the jump).

Apart from being 20% faster than Firefox 3.5, the new features include automated plug-in update scanner for better security, quick theming with Personas, accelerometer support and support for new web-standards.

Opera has always been the leader in innovating web-browser technologies and once again the Opera team has came-up with some promising stuff with public release of Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha, the major new features worth mentioning here would be the all new JavaScript rendering engine Carakan which is touted to be 7x faster in benchmarks then it's predecessor Futhark used in current stable release of Opera 10.10, new Presto 2.5 engine with support for CSS3 transitions and transforms with more HTML5 features, new hardware accelerated VEGA graphics library and support for private tab (no need to open a window) apart from the new address-bar and other GUI enhancements.

Opera Labs is doing some extra-ordinary research in terms of new web-browser features and after introducing Opera Turbo they seem to have gone too far with experimenting introducing face gestures in the latest snapshot builds of Opera 10, the concept of controlling your web-browser with facial expressions sounds pretty cool but after seeing the video demo with man making funny faces to control the web-browser, I decided to stick with keyboard and mouse combination for a while, jokes apart the technology seems promising considering the evolution of touch devices where such functionality can be handy, I am very much sure that Opera will tweak this facial-gesture technology further to create something useful.

Few days ago my Firefox profile got corrupted and resulted in loss of essential data, Loosing your browser's saved passwords, bookmarks, settings and customizations can be very frustrating if a lot depends on it, While searching for Firefox profile backup solutions, I came across FEBE - A simple to use, highly customizable Firefox Environment Backup Extension, unlike other Firefox backup and restore solutions FEBE lets you automatically backup your browser data of choice to Box.Net free online storage service, allowing you to easily synchronize your office and home browsers.

We wrote about Microsoft preparing to release IE8 Beta 1 yesterday, and they released it today (link at the end of the post), Interestingly enough Firefox 4 Alpha 1 also got released today, the browser war seems all set to heat up once again.

Internet Explorer 8 looks promising this time, but Firefox is surely taking the lead, with Firefox 4 supporting Javascript 2 already into the pipeline, the future seems to be with Firefox.

Two days ago we posted about release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta to Microsoft Connect users for private testing, now it is being reported that Microsoft is pushing the private Beta to public according to an internal mail, pointing out that the release is “focused on the developer community”.

Internet Explorer 8 focuses on web standards compliance, better security and improved user interface, With Firefox 3 already in Beta 3 with pretty impressive overall improvement better IE keep up with its schedule.

The browser war is expected to heat up once again as Microsoft announced the next version of IE “Windows Internet Explorer 8" to be made available for downloading as beta version in the first half of 2008.

The most notable change being support of web standards in IE8 which Microsoft has ignored long time in previous versions of IE, webmasters will need to place a special tag instructing IE8 to render the page in new IE8 web standard mode, else the site will load using normal IE rendering mode to prevent site layouts from breaking.

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