A panel discussion among browser executives shed a little light on the philosophical differences between four major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera), but more than anything showed how these products are moving in the same direction.

Responding to an audience question at the end of the panel, the browser reps set their products apart from the others this way:

Browser fellows. Left to right: Moderator Stephen Wildstrom of BusinessWeek, Christen Krogh of Opera, Sundar Pichai of Google, Dean Hachamovitch of Microsoft, and Mike Shaver of Mozilla.

(Credit: Rafe Needleman / CBS Interactive)

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