Firefox 4 Beta is out with a revamped UI, Google Chrome continues to gain popularity and Opera has a slick new version. Let's take a look at which browser uses your screen the best without wasting space.

Firefox/Chrome/Internet Explorer: With a browser extension, users can control their privacy and stop their data from being sent to Google Analytics, a Google service which monitors and tracks traffic and visitor data for websites.

Internet Explorer doesn't exactly have it all over Firefox, or even Chrome, when it comes to a robust collection of add-ons that add great features. Still, they exist, and, well, they cause crashes. Most crashes, in fact, according to a Microsoft whitepaper (direct DOC link).

Internet Explorer runs a distant second to Firefox amongst Lifehacker readers, but IE8 does have a few useful tricks up its sleeve -- including a bunch of add-on tools to make life easier for Facebook addicts.

Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, like every other browser, makes a claim to being "faster". We took Firefox and all the other latest browsers, put them on Windows 7, and ran them through our human-measured speed tests to vet the bragging.

Internet Explorer 8 only: Internet Explorer may be the least popular browser among our readers, but weblog IEBlog demonstrates how to determine which add-ons are slowing down your IE page loads with a tool we wish other browsers would pick up on.

Finding Internet Explorer 8 a bit sluggish when it comes to opening new tabs? Badly written browser add-ons might well be to blame.

Not using Internet Explorer as your main browser but still need a copy of IE8 for occasional testing? A change to the browser makes it slightly less likely to railroad your existing browser preferences.

Internet Explorer 8 is by far the best browser Microsoft's ever released, but most of our readers are happily using a better alternative like Firefox or Chrome. Microsoft's not happy about this, so they've created an absurd piece of propaganda to win you back.

If you want to add Microsoft's new search engine in the quick search box for your favourite browser, we've got you covered.

The odds are good that no matter what your preferred browser you don't spend a lot of time with the zoom feature, but the recently released Internet Explorer 8 has a few neat zoom tricks up its sleeve.

The official IE blog points out a useful new feature included in Internet Explorer 8: You can login to the same site with multiple accounts—simultaneously.

A quick pointer for anyone who's playing with an "unofficial" copy of the Windows 7 Release Candidate ahead of this week's official public rollout: it doesn't yet include the Compatability View feature in IE8.

Windows: Xdn Tweaker, which we've previously enjoyed for its fine-tuning capabilities on Windows XP and Vista, has upgraded to support the same sort of fixes and features on Windows 7, plus a few unique offerings.

Granted, it doesn't have the full-on extensions capabilities Firefox users get addicted to, but there's still plenty you can customise in Internet Explorer 8 even without playing with the new Web Slices and Accelerators features.

Apart from loading web pages, there's one thing that most of our readers want their browser to do: Block annoying advertisements. Web site Neowin points out that Internet Explorer 8's InPrivate feature does just that.

If you're a Windows user who wasn't tempted to download Internet Explorer 8 the minute the final release went live, take note: it's probably about to appear on your system anyway courtesy of Automatic Update.

If you're keen on Internet Explorer 8 but haven't quite gotten into the auto-updating "Web Slices," the LiveSlices site makes it super easy to track Gmail, RSS, Twitter and other feeds from a drop-down menu button.

According to web analytics firm StatCounter, Firefox 3 has ousted Internet Explorer 7 as the most used web browser use in Europe. Good news, but it's not exactly as rosy as it sounds.