This poll question has been surveyed on 23rd January till 29th January. The question asked was "Which web browser loading speed do you prefer?" And we had provided five answers which are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, and Mac Safari.
In the results, we can see that most of the people still prefer Mozilla Firefox loading speed which consist 52%. Most of the respondents still prefer Mozilla Firefox are because it is popular and it's loading speed is faster than the other web browser.
The second highest was Google Chromewhich consist 32%. Google Chrome was launched at 2008. Although Firefox is fast , Google Chrome loads faster and keep your surfing super fast. It lose to Firefox in this survey might because still many people do not know about this new web browser and they haven figure it out.
Next is Internet Explorer which consist 16%. We get some respondents' opinion that Internet Explorer is getting slower and slower lately. It made them wants to change their web browser. Nobody voted for Opera and Mac Safari in this poll because these two web browsers less people to use.
In conclusion, Mozilla Firefox is still leading among others web browser nowadays. Thanks a lot for everyone for answer the question.
Due to the results obtained from last week poll, I had decided to write a post about the most preferred type of browsers by the public. Therefore, in this post, I will be discussing the battle between Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Lets begin with by learning more about the comparison of these two browsers.
Google Chrome is a webkit-based Internet browser that had been released. With all the publicity that is created around it, many people have already tried and had their very first impressions about it. While,Firefox is an advanced with its root from the old Netscape browser. Can Google Chrome give a competition to Firefox which is now considered the best browser in business?
Speed: Firefox is fast but Chrome loads faster and keep you surfing super fast. This will be the first thing to note in Chrome as it is twice as fast as in JavaScript. It loads websites in lighting speed. An average user will experience almost immediate web browsing with it. For instance, opening mail in Gmail is almost stunningly fast. Even Youtube rocked in Chrome.
User-friendly: Just like Firefox, Chrome is also very user-friendly as the navigation is quite simple. However, Firefox is much better than Chrome as the ending is somewhat clumsy as everything is embedded in menus and also the tabs on the top are hard to find. For instance, the differences in Firefox and Chrome tabs. Tabs are at the top in Chrome which is above the buttons for back, forward, refresh and most importantly the address bar while in Firefox, the tabs are at the top of the application window.
Security: Firefox is well-known for its security whereas Chrome whose core is a multi-process platform which helps provide users with enhanced security. Both browsers have an anti-malware tool that warns users when they visit a website that is known to install viruses, spyware and other malicious codes. This tool also helps protect against known as 'phishing' sites. However, an early criticism of Chrome is the lack of a 'Master Password' feature that Firefox supports. In the absence of such a feature, anyone who uses the browser will have access to the stored passwords. Both browsers allow users to view the stored password in plain text. However, Firefox's Master Password feature prevents unauthorized users to use this feature.
Design: Like Google's homepage, Chrome is very minimal. The browser is designed to be out of the way that the user only sees the site, not the browser. The whole interface looks just like browsing another google site. There is no status bar and menu bar. Chrome's tabs are above the address bar (as opposed to Firefox where the tabs are below the address bar).Chrome comes in Google's trademark which is baby blue color.
Extensibility: Firefox is a flexible, open source browser with thousands of extensions that help users to customize their browsing experience. Firefox extensions are the reason of its popularity. Extensions allows the application to be customized to fit the personal need of each user if they need additional features, while keeping the applications small to download. Since Chrome is also a open source browser, it is expected that several Firefox extensions will be ported to the Chrome platform and be made available for both browsers. However, this will depend upon the success of the browser with the user community as well as the extensibility of its architecture.
There are many features in which Google Chrome scored good marks but Mozilla Firefox wins the race. As Chrome is still in the BETA stage, so you would not expect t to be so popular now if you compare it to Firefox. Firefox is still the best browser so lets hope Chrome gives a tough competition to Firefox in order that we can get the best browsing experience possible.
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Do you know what is browser war actual means? It is actually refers to the serious competition in the world of web browsers. The first such “war” was between the Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
A long time ago, when Netscape dominated the market, at around version 3 the browser was, for that time, Excellent. HTML was simple and relatively pure. Eyeing Netscape's success in a field that they had previously shown no interest in ( Bill gates himself once dismissed the internet as a passing fad), later Microsoft released their own web browser named 'Internet Explorer (IE)' with the sole intention of dislodging Netscape.
When Internet Explorer was launched, Netscape was completely dominant in the web browser world. Netscape had led in user share until Internet Explorer took the lead in 1999 due to its distribution advantage.
Internet Explorer became popular. Then come a period of flurried activity, with two browser manufacturers releasing their updates to their browser on ever-decreasing time scales. New HTML tags and DHTML extensions were created and then loosely documented. A designer could use these elements, but at the cost of having them fail in the competitor’s browser. A split started to form as pages designed for one of the ‘big two’ browser would not work in the other.
Netscape released Navigator version 4 in 1997. It was very poorly designed browser, laced with bugs and new abilities that broke backwards-compatibility. What caused most pain among developers was that it happily blundered into advanced CSS and JavaScript code that it should have the sense to ignore. Microsoft released the superior Internet Explorer 4, and the tide started to turn very quickly.
Eventually it become obvious that Netscape were fighting a losing battle between Microsoft. Because Internet Explorer came pre-installed on every Windows operated machine, most users just used that instead of seeking out alternatives (this is the same problem that plagues any competing browser to this day). By the time Internet Explorer 6 was released, its market share had grown to a high of about 95%.
In the years that followed, lazy or ill-equipped web designers began their sites to work only in IE, as making a site look the same in other browsers required a lot of knowledge and effort. This only encouraged user to stick with Internet Explorer, no matter how many advances were made in other browsers. Even when Netscape belatedly released the vastly improved Navigator 6 in year 2000, it barely made a dent in the market.
And so, the war ended. Lying in its wake was a web of incompatibilities and sites that only worked in a certain version of one browser. HTML had been blown off course as a structural markup language and was now bloated with presentational elements like the much-maligned font tag. It took years to even begin to undo the damage that had been done.
Happily, things have finally started moving back towards a level playing field. Internet’s Explorer dominancy is no longer absolute after new browsers had launched like Mozilla Firefox, Mac Safari, Google Chrome and much more. Besides that, web users now have lots of choice when deciding which browser they should use.
This is the results of the question that was surveyed last week. For those people who has voted, THANKS for your participation!!
The question asked was 'Which type Web Browser do you prefer'?
The options given were Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mac Safari and also Opera.
As the results shown, most of the respondents use Mozilla Firefox. Why is that so? I have asked most of the respondents and what they told me was Mozilla Firefox are safer and the firewall are stronger than the others. Furthermore, Google Chrome is somehow still new to the users that visited our blog. Therefore, there are lesser people are using it. For Internet Explorer, the users who uses this has been decreasing from time to time. It was mainly because Internet Explorer has bad anti-virus and they hardly block the pop-ups that irritates the users. In addition, lesser people would prefer using Mac Safari is because it gives users an impression that it is complicated and new to the users. For Opera, there is no one voted for that. This is mainly because most of the people prefer to use Opera when they are accessing Internet using phone. Moreover, Opera is also used by most of the mobile phone users that will access the internet through hand phone.
In Conclusion, Mozilla Firefox is the most popular Web Browsers available now and 73.3% of the respondents prefer using it.
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This post is posted to further discussed more in detail on the different types of web browsers.
There are FOUR leading web browsers : Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mac Safari and Netscape Navigator but there are many other browsers available. Now, we will discuss these browsers in a bit more detail.
Internet Explorer more commonly known as the IE is a product from the software giant Microsoft. It is the most widely-used web browser by people around the world. IE was first introduced in 1995 along with Windows 95 launch. Most people have a wrong idea that browsing the Internet is only possible through Internet Explorer. This simply proves that they are unaware of the various web browsers available and Internet Explorer is used by the majority. Since IE was introduced, its usage share was around 95% until 2004. However, with many companies coming up with web browsers that challenge IE in their features and usage, Microsoft occasionally updates with some improved capabilities. The 'favicon' which is the favorite icon first introduced in IE was later adopted by many other web browsers. Initially, IE did not support tabbed browsing but today, it can even be used in the older version by installing toolbars. The latest version is Internet Explorer 8 which is a FREE update. So, update your latest Internet Explorer NOW!
Mozilla Firefox is a new browser developed from Mozilla. It is owned by Mozilla Corporation and this browser has gone through many name changes due to name clashes with other products. It was initially named Phoenix, Firebird and finally Firefox. Mozilla Firefox was officially announced in February 2004. Since then, it had slowly grown to be the second most popular web browser after Internet Explorer. Until November 2008, 700 million downloads were recorded. The release of Firefox had became the main cause of the sales of IE to gone down drastically. Among all the other browsers, Firefox has around 22% of the market share at present. it has undergone many updates and version changes to improve usability to the universal users. Firefox is an open source software and its source code is available, therefore, it allows everyone to access the code. It supports tabbed browsing that allows users to open multiple sites in a single window.Besides that, session storage is also an important feature of Firefox which allows users to regain access to the open tabs after he/she has closed the window. Apart from these, there are many other user-friendly features that Firefox offers.
Mac Safari is a browser developed from Apple Inc., which is similar with Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and the iPhone OS. Safari was first released as a public beta in January 2003. By March 2009, the market share of Safari has gone up to 8.23%. The Safari 4 beta release claims to have many features like the Voice Over Screen Reader. It is able to read aloud everything that takes place on the screen with text and web links. Besides that, Grammar Checking is another interesting built-in feature which performs grammar checks on typed text and gives suggestions to correct your sentence if wrong. If you need to fill an online form with your personal information, AutoFill is a feature that can automatically does that for you, with the help of information that is stored in your address book or Microsoft Outlook. Safari also has very good support for the latest technologies like XHTML, CSS2, JavaScript support and etc. Safari supports all the functions that are available in other web browsers. The Safari is also known for its sleek design.
Netscape Navigator was developed by the Netscape Communications Corporation and was most popular in the 1990s. It was one of the original web browsers and this is why Microsoft designed Internet Explorer to compete against it. Netscape and IE comprise the major portion of the browser market. With the help of exceptional features provided at the time of its release, it had raised its fame with a market share of more than 50% in the 1990s. It was compatible to almost every operating system. However, since 2002, it has almost disappeared from the market due to the strong competition from rivals like the Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mac Safari and etc. Due to the strong competition, it had undergone multiple version changes to maintain its stake in the market but none was successful. The development of Netscape officially ended in February 2008.
Opera was developed by Opera Software in 1996. It is a well-known browser that is mainly used in the Internet activated mobile phones, PDAs and smartphones. Opera Mini and Opera Mobile are the browsers used in PDAs and smartphones. Though it is not a renowned computer web browser, it is popular as web browser in mobile devices. It is compatible to with Symbian and Windows Mobile operating system. Opera 9.64 which is the latest version provides am e-mail client known as the Opera Mail and an IRC chat client built-in. The Opera Software company self-proclaimed that Opera is 'the fastest browser on Earth'. Opera is fast, small and standard-compliant web browser. it is a preferred browser for a number of small devices like mobile phones and hand-held computers. It has some commons functions like zoom and fit-to -width, content blocking, tabs and sessions, download manager with BitTorrent, a search bar and mouse gestures.
Google Chrome is a free and open-source web browser developed by Google. Its beta and commercial versions were released in September 2008. It has soon become the fourth most widely used web browser with a market share of 1.23%. The browser options are very similar to Safari, while the setting locations are similar to Internet Explorer 7 and the window design s based on Windows Vista.
There are many different web browsers that are available and in use nowadays and they all come in a variety of features. However, many more are likely to arrive in future but only those which are exciting and user-friendly will be able to survive the market competition and hold on to a substantial market share.
Hopefully by now, you can have a little more knowledge on the different types of web browsers.
That's all from me, for now.
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This post is posted to discuss the FUNCTIONS of Web Browsers...
There are approximately 11 FUNCTIONS for most of the Web Browsers.
The functions are the following : -
The NAVIGATION Function : it helps navigating recently viewed page by using Back, Forward, Recent Pages, Home, Stop, and Refresh buttons.
Using the TABBED BROWSING: allows you to open multiple Web pages in a single browser window by pressing Ctrl + T.
Using the ADDRESS LIST : Address list will Appear as you start typing a URL in the Address box.
Creating and Using a FAVORITE: a favorite is the Shortcut to a Frequently viewed web page.
Using the HISTORY LIST:this lists down the web pages that had been Visited during the past few Days.
Creating a Web Page DESKTOP SHORTCUT :can be done by Dragging in the Web Page Icon to the desktop.
PRINTING a Web Page :Preview and select particular parts that you want to print it out.
SAVING a web page or information : web pages, images can be saved in your computer.
E-MAIL-ing a Web Page : send a Page or Link to a page using commands on the Page button on the command bar.
ADDING Web Content to the active background : allows you to set your favorite Application as you Active Background.
ZOOMING a Web Page : zoom in those Pages that you want to see it in a bigger sizes.
These are the FUNCTIONS of Web Browsers and there are more
we can learn from different types of Web Browsers.
I hope you all can learn something from this post
and ABLE to use web browsers wisely in the FUTURE!!!
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Reference: Text Book, Chapter 2: Browsing The Web, Gary B.Shelly, et al (2007)(2nd Edition):Discovering The Internet: Complete Concepts and Techniques Thomson Course Technology.
In order to access the Internet, one needs special computer software called a Web browser. A web browser is a software application that helps a computer user gain access to all the content that is on the Internet and the hard disk of the computer. It’s that allows a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network.
Besides that, more than one web browser can also be installed on a single computer. When the browser is used for browsing web pages, the text and images on a Web page can contain hyperlinks to other Web pages at the same or different website which can be opened in a new browser. Multiple tabs and windows of the same browser can also be opened.
Web browsers are an old concept in computers. As time passed, browsers with advanced functionality were developed and updated. The primary and secondary features and facilities offered by web browsers include downloads, bookmarks, and password management. They also offer functions like spell checking, search engine toolbar, tabbed browsing, advertisement filtering, HTML access keys and pop-up blocking.
There are many types of web browser nowadays such as:
Microsoft's Internet Explorer: Most Internet users are using Internet Explorer because it's easy to use and most Web sites are written with Internet Explorer in mind, which mean that they are compatible.
Opera: Opera is another popular browser that's easy to use; however, it can have some compatibility issues with various websites.
Mozilla's Firefox: Firefox is rapidly gaining ground right behind Internet Explorer because of its tabbed browsing, superior security features, and fast load.
Mac Safari: Specifically for Mac users, Safari is an excellent choice for a Web browser, with fast load and good compatibility with most websites out there.
Google Chrome: Chrome is an Web browser designed by Google, Inc. It is one of the newer additions in the competitive web browsing market
Above are the most popular web browser in Internet nowadays. There will be more details on those web browsers soon.
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