Firefox Download May Have Set a New World Record

What is your favorite browser? For many it is Firefox by Mozilla, a browser that I personally like. Apparently, many other users feel the same way that I do. Firefox fans are busy downloading the new Firefox 3 at a rate of 9,000 copies per minute! Firefox has many loyal fans who collectively attempted to set a world record for the most software downloads in a 24-hour period. The category is a new one for the Guinness Book of World Records, and it has to be verified, a process that could take up to a week. But for users, it … Continue reading →

Safari Makes Its Move

Safari is well-known in computing circles as the “world’s fastest browser.” Now, it seems, it may become a threat to Microsoft now that it is available to Windows PC users. Up until now, Safari was only able to be used on Apple machines running Mac operating systems. But yesterday, at the WWDC event, Steve jobs announced that will soon change. Jobs unveiled a new version of safari that is compatible with windows, a move that shocked many. So why would Jobs and Apple make this move with Safari? It isn’t all that surprising when you think about it. Software can … Continue reading →

My favorite Firefox Internet Browser extensions

The Firefox Internet browser is a useful alternative to Internet Explorer. One nice feature of Firefox is the ability to customize your Internet browsing experience with the use of what are called Extensions. Extensions for Firefox are small add-ons that enhance the functionality of the Web browsers. Today, I want to pass on three Firefox extensions that I recommend for all Firefox users. Below, I’ve pasted a screenshot of my current Extensions list. I also encourage you to go to the Firefox Extensions homepage and browse through the endless add-ons you can use to customize your Firefox Internet browser. Forecastfox … Continue reading →

Review of four free Internet browsers (Reviews part 2)

Here are the final reviews for the last two of four browsers reviewed here. ● Netscape Browser 8. The current version of Netscape, published by AOL, is based on the early versions of Firefox. It also includes the rendering engine used in IE. Thus, Netscape should be able to display most web pages without any trouble. Every so often I have a little bit of trouble getting some pages to display. Similar to Firefox, Netscape banks on being different than IE and contains features not yet incorporated in IE. You can use tabbed browsing and customize the interface. You are … Continue reading →

Review of four free Internet browsers (Reviews part 1)

The first part of this blog provided a brief introduction to Internet browsers and the four browsers that I will review. I’ve broken the review up into two parts to make for easier reading. Reviews are organized alphabetically by browser name. ● Firefox 1.5. Firefox, by Mozilla, is the only open source browser of the four found here. Open source means that the programming code that allows the program to run is available and modifiable. Furthermore, Firefox was developed by users around the world using the open source format so you can think of it as a browser designed to … Continue reading →

Review of four free Internet browsers (introduction)

You may remember when Internet usage was heating up in the mid-1990’s and a lot of people were trying to customize the look and feel of how they used the Internet At the time, there were two major players in the Internet browser department: Internet Explorer (IE) and Netscape Explorer. Looking back, the differences between those two browsers were not so great, though they may have seemed large. The key difference that became more clear as time went on was that Internet Explorer was created and backed by Microsoft. Eventually, IE became the default browser for most since it came … Continue reading →