Speed kills — ask any cop — and browser users are going to find that out very soon.
The browser wars heated up this week, with Microsoft’s launch of Internet Explorer 8,
Google’s release of a new beta version of Chrome, and the debut of Mozilla’s Fennec, the mobile version of Firefox. One of the main talking points for both Google and Mozilla has been JavaScript — how it makes their browsers faster and boosts Web 2.0 capabilities. Microsoft, on the other hand, is emphasizing security — which is where the other browsers may run into trouble.