Which browser is perfect for you?Posted by Avijit on August 18th, 2010 Those days are gone, when people using the Internet explorer 6.0 or Netscape Navigator oreven Lynx (a text-based web browser). Now a day, people have a wide choice of browsers. Development of different operating system also affects the web browser development. For example ? Microsoft Windows XP contains IE version 6.0 but the latest version of Windows contain IE 8.0. The browser development will take place when the open source operating systems will capture the market share. Unix like operating systems like ? Linux and BSD have their own web browsers like ? Mozilla Firefox, Konquerer and many more? not only that, major search engine Google already has a well-established web browser called Google Chrome. Here is a list of most popular browser list - ? Internet Explorer ? Mozilla Firefox ? Google Chrome ? Opera ? Apple Safari You can download Microsoft Internet Explorer from their website; current version of Internet Explorer is 8.0. Generally it is freely available with latest Microsoft Operating System ? Windows 7. This browser can freely downloadable from other sites like Softpedia.com. The standalone version of the browser comes with different language packs like ? French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and many other language packs. If you need to try this browser in your language, you have to download one of them and install separately. Internet explorer 8.0 has great security and enhanced web surfing experience. Probably the most popular alternative web browser is Mozilla Firefox. It is available for different Operating Systems like ? Windows, Linux and BSD; today numbers of users choose this for their favorite web browser. Mozilla Firefox has great features like ? tabbed browsing, better security and privacy options and hopefully the best option is ? automatic pop-up blocking. Lastly, Mozilla Firefox has a great support of exclusive extension directory. Firefox is open source software, that?s why the source code of the software is freely available on the Internet. Due to that, developers can get the source code and create their custom extension or plug-ins for more customized browsing experience. Major search engine Google has developed the advanced browser called ? Google Chrome. It has a different look and feel from other browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox. Google Chrome has a minimum design features, but it has the best technology and security features, which makes it faster and safer. Like Firefox, Google Chrome is open source software and has an extension directory for enhanced browsing experience. Opera is another most popular web browser available on the Internet. It is available freely but it is not open source software. Open is one of the oldest browser on Internet. The developers denotes the browser ? ?Fastest Browser of the world?, means it opens the website faster rather than other web browsers; Opera browser available with two different versions, Desktop or PC edition and Opera MINI for mobile phones; Both the browser free from licensing cost. Opera has the ability like other popular browsers, such as ? tabbed browsing, security, pop-up blocking and many more? Apple Safari developed by Apple and it is comes with MAC OS X. now a day, it is available for Microsoft Windows. Unlike Firefox and Google Chrome, it does not have extension support but is more secure and fast than IE. On the other hand, it has better support of CSS and W3C technologies. Now the question is ? what browser should I use? The answer is ? if your computer running with Microsoft Windows, it is recommended that, you can use Firefox or Google Chrome and if your operating system is MAC OS X, you can use Apple Safari. Like it? Share it! More by this author |