Download Your Favorite Web Browser!

11/24/2010 01:21:00 PM , , 0 Comments


  Five of the most popular web browsers are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera & Apple Safari. Know the new features and download them. Download the beta version or the stable release.
 

Google Chrome
Main Features:
  • Speed: Chrome is designed to be fast in every possible way, It's quick to start up from your desktop, loads web pages in a snap, and runs complex web applications fast.
  • Simplicity: Chrome's browser window is streamlined, clean and simple.
  • Security: Chrome is designed to keep you safer and more secure on the web with built-in malware and phishing protection, autoupdates to make sure the browser is up-to-date with the latest security updates.
  • Themes: Customize your browser with themes from artists around the world.
  • New Tab page: Visit your favorite websites easily from the New Tab page. When you open a new tab, the sites you visit most often are readily available.
  • Omnibox: Use the Omnibox to type both web addresses and searches in Chrome.
  • Incognito mode: When you don't want your website visits to be recorded in your browser history, you can browse in incognito mode.
  • Tabs and Stability: Chrome is built for stability. If an individual tab freezes or crashes, the other tabs are unaffected.




    Current Stable Release: Google Chrome 7.0.517
    Current Beta Release: Google Chrome 8.0.552.23 Beta
    Latest Dev Release: Google Chrome 9.0.587.0 Beta


    Mozilla Firefox
    Main Features:
    • Awesome Bar: Find the sites you love in seconds (and without having to remember clunky URLs).
    • One-Click Bookmarking: Bookmark, search and organize Web sites quickly and easily.
    • Super Speed: View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory.
    • Easy Customization: Thousands of add-ons give you the freedom to make your browser your own.
    • Private Browsing: Surf the Web without leaving a single trace.
    • Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware: Enjoy the most advanced protection against online bad guys.
    • Tabs: Do more at once with tabs you can organize with the drag of a mouse.
    • Password Manager: Remember site passwords without ever seeing a pop-up.
    • Session Restore: Unexpected shutdown? Go back to exactly where you left off.
    • Personas: Instantly change the look of your Firefox with thousands of easy-to-install themes.



      Current Stable Release: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.12
      Current Beta Release: Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 7


      Internet Explorer
      Main Features:
      • Fast: Hardware-accelerated text, video, and graphics, Installs faster & starts faster
      • New Tab page helps get you started browsing quickly, providing meaningful suggestions and information to help you decide what to do next as you browse.
      • Notification Bar: Notifications allow for more fluid and faster browsing. Instead of dialog boxes popping up unexpectedly and getting in your way, all notification messages are consolidated in the Notification Bar, located at the bottom of the browser frame.
      • One Box: You can start typing a web address and AutoComplete anticipates what you’re looking for to help you get to your websites quickly. And because search functionality is integrated into One Box, you don’t have to worry about remembering the full web address—type in familiar terms like “news” or “music” and you can get to the sites you love in a flash.
      • Pinned Sites: With Pinned Sites, you can get to your favorite sites directly from the Windows taskbar—without having to open Internet Explorer first.
      • InPrivate: InPrivate Browsing helps prevent your browsing history, temporary Internet files, form data, cookies, and user names and passwords from being retained by the browser.
      • SmartScreen Filter: SmartScreen Filter gives Anti-phishing & Anti-malware protection.
      • Download Manager: New and improved download manager.


      Current Stable Release, Internet Explorer 8 is included in Windows 7.
      For Current Beta Release, Visit: Internet Explorer 9 Beta

      Note: IE9 is only available fo Windows 7 & Windows Vista


      Opera
      Main features:
      • Extensions allow you to add new functionality to Opera easily.
      • Tab stacking helps you keep your tabs organized.
      • Pinned tabs now take up less space and are neatly grouped to the left of your tabs.
      • Visual mouse gestures help you learn how to control Opera with mouse movements.
      • An enhanced address field makes it easy to stay safe on the Web.
      • Mail panel upgrades give you greater control over your email in Opera.
      • Search predictions from Google harness the power of Opera's integrated search.
      • A new bookmarks bar gives you easy access to your bookmarks and replaces the personal bar.
      • Speed improvements bring Opera ahead of other browsers in many benchmarks.
      • Auto-update now makes sure you have the latest extensions and Opera Unite apps.
      • You can now set plug-ins to load only on demand to significantly speed up browsing.
      • Opera's installer is smaller and streamlined for a faster, easier installation.


      Current Stable Release: Opera 10.63
      Current Beta Release: Opera 11 Beta


      Apple Safari
      Main features:
      • VoiceOver Screen Reader.
      • Full-Page Zoom.
      • Zoom Text Only.
      • Safari supports Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA).
      • Enhanced Keyboard Navigation.
      • Custom Style Sheets.
      • Closed Captions for HTML5 Video.
      • Cover Flow.
      • Built-in RSS.
      • Safari Extensions.


      Current Stable Release: Apple Safari 5

      For VERY detailed study & comparison of browsers visit this Wikipedia page: Comparison Of Web Browsers
       

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