There are many Internet browsers. They have many different features and they also look different. The only thing in common is the fact that they can brows the Internet. Which one is better and which one is the most commonly used one?
There are many web browsers. Most of them are unknown to many. The big ones are popular. The most popularly used browser would be Internet Explorer. This is because it is the default browser for a windows computer. As most computers owned in the world are windows computers, this makes Internet Explorer the most popular. This does not mean that Internet Explorer is the best. I’m going to tell you the features of each so you can choose your own web browser.
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer as I wrote is the most used browser in the world. But this leader won’t last for long as the usage of it is declining as shown by this graph:
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The usage of Internet Explorer is declining slowly. But the chart below will show you the popularity of the other web browsers compared:
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As you see above, Mozilla Firefox will catchup eventually. Anyway, I’m now going to tell Inernet Explorers features. Internet Explorer supports HTML, CSS, XML, DOM, XSLT and XSL files.
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Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is the second most used web browser. It used many popular gadgets that were only just recently implemented onto Internet Explorer like tabbing, bookmarking, a download manager, pop-up blocker and an inbuilt search bar that uses google. Mozilla firefox’s features include the above list and users can personalise their browser with add-ons. Add-ons are software that people upload and let you download for free. They allow you to do a certain thing like download a video of youtube instantly! I’m even a Firefox user!
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Safari
Safari is the third most popular web browser. It, like Internet Explorer, is a default browser. It’s popularity may not come from it popular download but from being a default browser Macbook computers. Feature include tabbing, bookmarking, google or yahoo (for windows) and google (for Mac) search bar, pop-up blocker and much, much more.
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Chrome
Chrome is a relatively new browser by google. Chrome’s features were mainly supposed to be used by other browsers but were implemented by Chrome first.
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Opera
Opera is the fifth most popular web browser. It was made in 1994. Opera is apparently the fastest web browser in the world and was tested ans was faster than Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3 and Safari 3 and was faster. It includes: tabbing, pop-up blocking, fraud protection, download manager, bittorrent client, search bar and a web aggregator.
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(the wikipedia link is not correct to any of the above links except 1)
Conclusion
I have not stated all browsers, just the main ones. Hope this has helped you find a good browser!
Cheers!
(if you want a list of ALL browsers, copy this URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers).
August 29th, 2009 at 4:49 am
Good Stuff
Interesting
Best Regards
August 29th, 2009 at 4:55 am
I’m still using the blue one but get frustrated at times.
August 29th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Nice options of webbrowser….
September 1st, 2009 at 5:07 am
i used mozilla , nice article