25 January, 2010

Five alternatives to Internet Explorer

Google Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Safari and Flock: five alternatives to Internet Explorer
There are plenty of alternatives to Internet Explorer, but be warned -- no web browser is 100 per cent secure

Mozilla Firefox

Firefox 3.6 is the latest version of the increasingly popular web browser. Mozilla claims it's 20 per cent faster than its predecessor, and features a "plug-in updater" – a tool that detects out-of-date programs that run in your browser (such as Flash, which is used for displaying some animated web pages or watching online videos).

Flock

Flock is a "social web browser" – it acts as a portal for people who want to integrate their Facebook and Flickr accounts, blogs, YouTube page and favourite websites into a single window.

Chrome

Google's web browser handles media-rich websites with ease, and because it treats individual "tabs" – open web pages – as separate programs, meaning that if one tab crashes, the whole browsing session isn't affected. The "incognito window" means you visit sites without saving your browsing history.

Opera

Opera is used on the Nintendo Wii, and Opera Mini is also an incredibly popular browser for mobile phones. Opera has all the usual features (it pioneered tabbed browsing in 2000), and can restore browsing sessions at the click of a mouse.

Safari

The Apple equivalent of Internet Explorer has a similar look and feel to the iTunes music store. Along with tabbed browsing and a built-in RSS feed reader, it also has Top Sites, a window that shows your most frequently-visited web pages.

Courtesy: Telegraph
Author: Claudine Beaumont

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