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Firefox

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 is one of the most secure and user-friendly browsers currently available.  With many different features to improve your browsing experience and with over 6000 add-ons, Firefox has consistently ranked as one of the top browsers on the market.

One of the most innovative and useful ideas that Firefox has included is the ability for it to incorporate add-ons. Add-ons are small additions that you can equip to web browser in order to improve your overall browsing experience. Ranging from blogger tools all the way to additions that will help you download web videos, add-ons are fast becoming a pivotal part of browsing the web effectively.

Firefox was the first browser to incorporate tabs into its design, and Mozilla hasn’t departed from this. Firefox now has a redo tab function, which will enable users to reopen accidentally closed tabs. One of the newest features that Mozilla has added to its browser is called Super Speed. By utilizing a new Java script engine, Firefox is able to render web pages faster and use less of your systems resources.

Another cool and new features that Firefox 3.5 comes equipped with is called Private Browsing.  When you activate Private Browsing you can explore the Internet without leaving any evidence of where you’ve gone. This not only protects your privacy, but also all of your personal information. Firefox’s private browsing feature can be turned off at any point, making it one of the most innovative features Mozilla has ever added.

Another new feature is called Forget This Site. This feature removes all the evidence that you’ve ever visited a specific site.

It appears that for the most part Firefox is without any real flaws. In the past there have been several bugs in Firefox, but Mozilla seem to have fixed a majority of these.

With all these new and improved features, it’s no wonder that Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 is arguably one of the best browsers available.

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Internet Explorer

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

With Microsoft’s browser dominance being challenged by many different browsers, not the least of which being Mozilla’s Firefox browser, Microsoft has redesigned its Internet Explorer in order to compete. In Internet Explorer 8, you’ll see a lot of cool and convenience features that will help add to your overall web browsing experience.

With the addition of tabs to Internet Explorer, Microsoft has incorporated one of the most important features in the new generation of browsers. Internet Explorer’s tabs vary from other browsers because of its color related tab feature. This feature will allow you to group related web pages together, and keep your browser in order.

Another cool feature that Microsoft has included in its Internet Explorer is the new Accelerator function.  If you highlight any text and click on the blue Accelerator icon that appears above it, you’ll be given a large selection of choices.  Ranging from driving directions all the way to translating the text into a foreign language, this feature is convenient and useful.

Microsoft has also included a new feature named Web Slice.  This feature will allow users to check frequently updated web pages from their favorites bar. While Microsoft has done quite a bit to improve its browsers convenience level as well as its usability, it still lacks many of the features that other browsers have had for years.

Internet Explorer 8 still does not have a save sessions and close function, even though almost every other browser on the market does. Internet Explorer also does not have the drag and drop tabs feature that makes moving tabs to other windows easier.

Sadly when this is coupled with several security flaws that Internet Explorer has had for quite some time, it showcases just how behind the times Microsoft’s browser really is.

Hopefully with Internet Explorer 9 still being in development, Microsoft will address many of these flaws and come up with a browser that can really compete with the other browsers on the market.

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Opera

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Opera 10 has all of the marking of a top rated Internet browser. Just from the sheer amount of features this browser has equipped, Opera 10 is giving all other browsers a run for their money. Opera allows you to keep your task bar in order through the use of tabs.  Instead of having to open up many different windows to see more than one web page, you can now open many different web pages within a single window. Opera also comes equipped with its signature “Speed Dial”, which allows users to get to their favorite websites super fast. Whenever a user opens a new tab within Opera, they are directed to a homepage in which all of their most commonly visited web pages are listed.

Another great feature, that Opera has included in its browser, is it’s page zoom feature. Unlike other browsers, Opera’s zoom feature actually re-sizes the entire web page, not just the page’s text. This will enable Opera users to not only view a web page’s text in a much larger font, but to view a web page’s graphic in much more detail.

The next intriguing feature that Opera has equipped is the “Opera link feature”. This feature allows you to synchronize not only Opera’s speed dial with your bookmarks, but to synchronize all of your settings across all of your computers. This really is a lifesaver, when you have more than one computer.

Operas interface is very tidy and clean looking, but is a bit crowded for my taste. The designers of Opera tried to provide its users with as many options as possible, the downside of such being that many of Opera’s menus and toolbars are stuffed with options.  While this may not seem like much of a flaw, when you take into consideration that most of these options never have to be tweaked, it lowers the browser’s overall usability.

While Opera is not without its flaws, it is still one of the best browsers that I’ve seen.

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