| General | QtWeb 3.2 | FireFox 3.5 | Safari 4 | Opera 10 | Chrome 2.0 | K-Meleon 1.5.2 | MS IE 8 |
| Support for third party search providers | Yes
Google, Yahoo, Bing, Cuil, customizable | Yes
customizable | Yes
Google & Yahoo | Yes
customizable | Yes
Google, Yahoo, MSN, customizable | Yes
customizable | Yes
Live and Google, customizable |
| Export/Import bookmarks from other browsers | Yes
IE,Mozilla,Html,Xbel,Xml | Yes
IE, Opera, Html | Yes
Html | Yes
Firefox, IE, Konqueror, Html | Yes
IE, Firefox | Yes
Opera, IE, Netscape | Yes
Html |
| Save Web Pages, Web Images locally | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
archives supported | Yes
archives supported | Yes | Yes
archives supported |
| Sessions support (restore last session, closed tabs, ..) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes
multiple sessions management | No | Yes | Yes |
| Downloads management | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| FTP browsing and downloading | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Local off-line Help with index | Yes | No
online only | Yes | No
online only | No
online only | No
online only | Yes |
| Software Updates | Yes
manual | Yes
automatic | No | Yes
automatic | Yes
automatic | No | Yes |
| AutoComplete (forms and passwords) | Yes
usernames and passwords | Yes
forms and passwords | Yes
AutoFill | Yes
Wand Passwords | Yes | Yes | Yes
AutoComplete |
| Built-in Torrent client | Yes new! | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
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| Performance Testing | QtWeb 3.2 | FireFox 3.5 | Safari 4 | Opera 9.64 | Chrome 2.0 | K-Meleon 1.5.2 | MS IE 8 |
| Acid3 performance test score (JavaScript & DOM) | 100 of 100 | 93 of 100 | 100 of 100 | 85 of 100 | 79 of 100 | 53 of 100 | 20 of 100 |
| SunSpider JavaScript performance test score (the less time the better) | 4,208 ms | 5,258 ms | 2,455 ms | 7,608 ms | 2,678 ms | 19,609 ms | 9,658 ms |
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| Privacy & Security | QtWeb 3.2 | FireFox 3.5 | Safari 4 | Opera 9.64 | Chrome 2.0 | K-Meleon 1.5.2 | MS IE 8 |
| SSL Certificate Info and Path Display | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Extended SSL Certificate validation and display | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Disk Cache can be turned ON/OFF | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Browser Reset/Clear Private Data | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Support for Proxy | Yes | Yes | Yes
via MS Proxy config | Yes | Yes
via MS Proxy config | Yes | Yes |
| Privacy Mode | Private Browsing | Safe Mode | Private Browsing | No | Incognito Window | No | InPrivate Window |
| Block Cookies | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Block Popups | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Block JavaScript | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Block Java | No
Java not supported yet | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Block Images | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Hide UserAgent | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Customizable UserAgent | Yes | No | Yes
very flexible | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Clear downloads with a downloads history | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Clean Reset & Uninstall (not leaving files, folders, registry entries) | Yes | No
Plugins, folders , registry entries left | No
user profile left | No
files, folders, user profiles, registry entries | No
user profile, registry entries | No
files, folders, registry associations | No
cannot be just removed easily |
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| Web Content | QtWeb 3.2 | FireFox 3.5 | Safari 4 | Opera 9.64 | Chrome 2.0 | K-Meleon 1.5.2 | MS IE 8 |
| Rendering Engine | Apple WebKit
v. 527 | Gecko | Apple WebKit v.530.19.2 | Opera | Apple WebKit
v. 530.5 | Gecko | Trident 4
also known as MSHTML |
| HTML/CSS/XHTML | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Frames | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JavaScript | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PlugIns (Flash, QuickTime, MediaPlayer, etc..) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ActiveX | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Java | No | Yes | Yes | Yes
via ext. plug-in | Yes
via ext. plug-in | Yes | Yes |
| RSS Feeds | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
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| For Developers | QtWeb 3.2 | FireFox 3.5 | Safari 4 | Opera 9.64 | Chrome 2.0 | K-Meleon 1.5.2 | MS IE 8 |
| View Page Source | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Web Page Content Inspector | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Network Statistics | Yes | Min
in status bar | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| JavaScript Debugger and Errors Console | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Page Info | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Command Line Download Manager | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
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| User Interface | QtWeb 3.2 | FireFox 3.5 | Safari 4 | Opera 9.64 | Chrome 2.0 | K-Meleon 1.5.2 | MS IE 8 |
| Tabbed interface | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tabbed can be switched to non-tabbed | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Movable and Dock/Undockable toolbars | Yes | No | No | No | No | Movable only | Movable only |
| Customizable Toolbars | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Customizable GUI (schemas, app. styles) | Yes | No | No | Yes
via skins | No | Yes
3 skins supplied | No |
| Customizable menu titles and hotkeys | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
| Customizable command shortcuts | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Text Encodings supported | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Full Screen mode | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Intellectual Address Bar | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Customize default fonts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Zoom page | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-language support | Yes new! | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| QuickTabs | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
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| Management | QtWeb 3.2 | FireFox 3.5 | Safari 4 | Opera 9.64 | Chrome 2.0 | K-Meleon 1.5.2 | MS IE 8 |
| Cookies | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Bookmarks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| History | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Usernames and Passwords | Yes | Yes | Yes
usernames only | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Search text within a web page | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Plug-Ins/Add-Ons management | No | Yes | No
just displayed | No
just displayed | No | Yes | Yes |
| Import settings from other Browsers (History, Passwords, etc..) | No | Yes
from Opera, IE | No | No | Yes
from IE, FireFox | No | Yes
Cookies, Bookmarks, Feeds |
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| Portability | QtWeb 3.2 | FireFox 3.5 | Safari 4 | Opera 9.64 | Chrome 2.0 | K-Meleon 1.5.2 | MS IE 8 |
| Single stand-alone executable (requires only system MS DLLs) | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Can be run in limited Windows environment (WinPE, BartPE) | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Can be copied as folder and run from other media (USB, CD) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Minimal package size just after installation | 5.72 MB | 25.6 MB | 66 MB | 18 MB | 75 MB | 17 MB | Nobody knows |
| Portable executable size | 5.10 MB | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Installation size | 5.37 MB | 7.73 MB | 27.1 MB | 7.1 MB | 30 MB | 5.59 MB | 13.2 MB |
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| Licensing | QtWeb 3.2 | FireFox 3.5 | Safari 4 | Opera 9.64 | Chrome 2.0 | K-Meleon 1.5.2 | MS IE 8 |
| Type of license | GNU General Public License | Mozilla Public License | Apple Software License | Opera Software License | BSD License | GNU General Public License | Microsoft Software License |
| Open Source. Code is available to developers | Yes | Yes | No
except WebKit | No | Yes | Yes | No |
