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Safari is the Mac OS default web browser that is developed by Apple Inc. Now Apple corporation has released its newest version Safari 4.0 for both Mac and Windows, so that most of Windows computer users can also use Safari to surf Internet. According to Apple official declaration, Safari 4.0 is the most fast web browser now in the world.

Mozilla Firefox is the web browser developed by Mozilla that is second popular now only minor than Microsoft IE. Not long ago, Mozilla Firefox 3.5 was released, it is said that the newest version has speed up more than before.

As the new launched web browser, Safari 4.0 and Firefox have their own features in performance and security etc.

Runing platform- As we know, Safari is the Apple Mac OS X and smart iPhone and iPhone 3G default web browser, it can run on both Mac and Windows. Mozill firefox web browser is also a multiplatform web browser that can run on Mac OSX, Linux, and Windows and other Unix-like operating system.

Features - Firefox has features such as: tabbed browsing, spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, an integrated download manager, keyboard shortcuts, and an integrated search system that uses the user's desired search engine. And as a open source browser, users can add plug-ins to their Firefox, and create their own plug-ins for Firefox. Ssame with Firefox, Safari 4.0 also allows users browse web in tab, Top Sites features will track the users' custom, rank their favorites webpages, presenting in thumbnail previews for the webpage, so that you can get to your always visited website as soon as possible.

Interface - Apple Safari 4.0 has dumped the Mac OS X interface, and it looks plain werid on Windows. Firefox apply its own skin that is different other web browser.

Security - Safari 4.0 is also functionable in phishing and malware protection, if you open a suspicious website carelessly, Safari 4.0 will alert you and do not open the webpage automatically. Firefox uses a sandbox security model, and limits scripts from accessing data from other websites based on the same origin policy. But for the web browser itself, Safari 4.0 is a little weaker than Mozilla Firefox.

Standards supported - Mozilla Firefox implement lots of starndards such as: HTML, XML, XHTML, MathML, SVG 1.1 (partial), CSS (with extensions ), ECMAScript (JavaScript), DOM, DTD, XSLT, XPath, and (animated) PNG images with alpha transparency. Safari 4.0 supports the new HTML 5.0, CSS 3.0 and other Javascripts etc.

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