The Web Browser War: Everything You Need To Know About The Top 3 Browsers

The browser war is starting again and this time Chrome OS will be involved. Chrome OS was announced earlier this year to be released in 2010 and this made us realize that web browsers are a big part of our computer. They are our outlet to the Internet, and they help us organize our information in an orderly fashion. So, because choosing a good web browser that fits your personality and tastes is very important for a good Web experience, we’ve decided to put together the 3 best web browsers and write a little bit about each of them to give you an idea of what makes up each one.

1. Safari

Safari from Apple, first released January, 7, 2003 was first released as a public beta but quickly grew to take its rightful place as a solid web browser, becoming a part of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system starting with Mac OS X v10.3 “Panther”. Safari distinguishes itself from other web browsers because of how it incorporates small features in with the big, allowing users to personalize it the way they like their web browser to be designed. Some features on Safari are:

- Tabbed browsing
- expandable text boxes
- Mail Integration
- Ability to save webpage clips for viewing on the Apple Dashboard
- History and bookmark search
- Private browsing
- Inline PDF viewing
- Integration with iPhoto photo management

Safari’s multiple handy features and constant Software Updates make it a fast and reliable web browser. You can download it here.

2. Google Chrome (OS)

Google Chrome was created in competition with Apple’s Safari, and proved worthy of a place in the web browser war when it users noticed that it was one of the cleanest and most organized web browsers without all of the confusing buttons and boxes. Google Chrome was first released on September, 2, 2008 also as a public Beta version for Microsoft Windows. The first public stable release was two months after the Beta release in December 2008. Development versions for Mac OS X and Linux were released in June 2009 and full stable versions for OS X and Linux will be released next year. Google Chrome, upon release last year ws given praise because of its unique features and functionality:

- Task manager (Chrome has its own task manager that allows users to see how much CPU and memory you are using for each plug-in and tab you use.
- One Box for search, address, and history (Instead of having multiple boxes for searching on Google , searching history, and typing in an address, it’s all combined in one so you can leave it up to Chrome to determine what you typed in).
- New Support for web applications (a new market calls for web applications and Google is already taking care of it with their new support for more applications, aside from their current applications, Google Docs, Salesforce.com, and Outlook Web Access).

3. Mozilla Firefox

Firefox is probably one of the oldest and most widely used web browser around because of its reliability and somewhat easy to use interface. Firefox is a free and open source web browser that allows for easy add-ons and applications. Firefox currently runs on various versions of Mac OS X, Linux, and other UNIX based operating systems. Firefox’s current stable release version is 3.5.5, which was released to users on November, 5, 2009. Updates comes slowly on Firefox, so the feature list for it are an accumulation of features since the release of 3.0:

- Live Bookmarking
- Tabbed Browsing
- Integrated Search Feature
- A Built in Download Manager
- Private Browsing
- Location Aware Browsing (Geolocation)