Ever experienced problems with Internet Explorer? Ever thought, “If only there were other options than IE…”? Here are those options, the most worthy alternatives for Internet Explorer.
Ever experienced problems with Internet Explorer? Ever felt “If only there were other options than IE…”? Then here are those options. I have listed what I thought are the most worthy alternatives for Internet Explorer.
Safari
Safari is one of the fastest web browsers on any platform. It loads pages up to 1.9 times and executes JavaScript up to 6 times faster than Internet Explorer 7. It has excellent features like tabbed web browsing, resizable text fields, snapback and easy book marks. As expected from any apple products, this web browser is designed for more security and easy usage.
Latest version: Safari 3.1
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is an excellent free web browser. With this browser you can view the pages faster and it requires less computer memory. You can avoid online scams with Instant Website ID. It offers a wide number of features like anti-malware, anti-virus and anti-phishing options. This web browser is available in more than 40 languages. Pop-up blocker, Spell checker and many more wonderful features are available with this browser. Whenever I get a problem with IE, I use this browser and personally felt that this is the best alternative to IE.
Mozilla web browser is faster in Java script processing when compared to other web browsers.
Latest version: Firefox 3.0 Beta 5
Opera
Opera is a superfast web browser. It is a free Web browser and can access web pages 30% faster than Internet Explorer and much faster than Firefox when using tabbed browsing. Moreover it offers lots of great tools for Web Developers. This is more secure and stable with fraud protection, cookie control and security bar.
Latest version: Opera 9.5
Maxthon
Maxthon is a powerful web browser with many interesting features like Tabbed Browsing, Feed Reader, Ad Hunter and Web Sniffer etc. The super Acceleration Mode improves your browser speed. URL Alias enables you to visit your favorite website by setting its name in the menu and typing just the name in the address bar than the whole web address. The Filter pack feature removes ads on a specified website and also gives you the possibility of modifying web page source code. Some excellent features include Anti-Freeze, Web Bar, Super Proxy, Screen Capture and Undo List. It offers Trusted Website Check by indicating with green color.
Latest version: 2.1.2.649
Avant
Avant is another web browser with many interesting features like Active X controls, Java Script, Real Player and Macromedia Flash. The Flash Animation Filter helps you to block the unwanted advertisements (which are mostly flash files). Additional mouse functions, multi window browsing, ATOM Reader and Pop-up Blocker are some of the important features of this.
Latest version: 11.6Build20
July 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 am
Valli, these alternatives are great. I will check them out, but Opera seems to be my favorite so far..Thanks!
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
what do you have to say about K-Meleon
it is hell customizable
and I like such stuff
July 22nd, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Very useful information. Foxfire is great.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:26 am
I’ve used Firefox before, but I’d never heard of any of the others. Thanks for the tips.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:58 am
I hadn’t heard of a lot of these before. Thanks for sharing this.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Great info!
August 13th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
This is a very helpful list, Valli.
I haven’t used IE for years. With all we have to choose from it makes it easy to design out own way to surf the web. My grandson won’t use anything but Opera but my browser of choice has always been Firefox. I have Safari and have used it occasionally.
Great information.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Thank you everybody for the support
August 24th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Im surprised you did nbot even mention Flock browser as it is the best this year hands down.
Flock is a web browser that specializes in Web 2.0 applications and addons and excellant in providing social networking and other features built into its interface. The browser is built on Mozilla’s Firefox plattform thus you can use all of firefox’s addons. On June 16th 2008 Flock 2 based on Mozilla’s Firefox 3 went into open beta.
http://www.flock.com