With all this talk of web-based apps, it's easy to forget there's still a battle going on for the browser platform - upon which most of the 'Web 2.0' apps run. Firefox will be releasing its 1.5 version later this week, accompanied by a marketing campaign to convince users of other browsers to switch. Also a new PCWorld article gives us a glimpse of the next version of Microsoft's market-leading browser, Internet Explorer 7.0. IE7 won't be released to the general public until early next year, so PCWorld's tests are all we have to go on for now. They compared Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1, Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 1, and Opera 9 Preview 1.
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