What is the best browser and why? Internet Explore, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, or Google Chrome?

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What is the best browser and why? Internet Explore, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, or Google Chrome?

Answer 1

I love the new Chrome browser, but I have never liked IE, and Chrome will get better, especially when they work out the kinks. It's just a better browser all together - and super fast. I absolutely love that it runs Javascript code much faster and that makes Google docs so much better! It's really simple and streamlined, and there are many really good features that other browsers don't have. For example: inCognito lets you go online without leaving any trace of history, which I find great when I'm using a public computer.



It's working great for me as we speak, and I'm a die hard Firefox user!

Answer 2

Hello,

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Firefox is a great browser that present a lot of interesting functionalities.

Answer 3

Well in my opinion Google Chrome is the best :)



Its very fast, stable and uses the same security techniques adopted by internet explorer in Vista that is Internet Explorer protected mode.



Plus, I love some of its features like being able to drag a link from a website to the tab bar to open a site or drag a saved document to the tab bar to open a site.

Answer 4

It really depends on what you are looking for in a browser. Internet Explorer has been around for ages, and has the full support of Microsoft behind it. It is sleek and powerful, but on old(ish) computers that may slow you down a bit. Still, as the standard browser, you won't find many other negatives with it.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/getitnow.mspx



Mozilla FireFox is a highly customizable browser. New themes and gadgets are released every week, and this gives a personal feel to it when viewing websites. Although it slows the computer down, it isn't as bad as IE, though on a fast computer, you won't notice much of a difference between the two.

FireFox 3.0.3: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html



Other options available are Opera Browser. This browser offers very limited customization features (only a colour change in fact), but because of this gives very fast browsing. it doesn't require as many resources as IE or FF, but it isn't very fun to browse in something that looks as out-of-date as it does.

Opera 9.60: http://www.opera.com/download/



The final major browser is Apple Safari. In my opinion it is the fastest of the 4 browser and my personal favourite. Its style is based on the iTunes layout and it doesn't offer any customizability, but if you like iTunes, you'll love this browser. Its major downfall is the fact that it doesn't render (load) webpages very well. This can become very irritating while browsing so most people don't give it a second thought. It does run very fast (even on slow computers) and has the fastest startup time of all browsers. If you find that the pages you usually visit work fine on Safari, you won't have anything bad to say about it.

Safari 3.1.2: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/safari312forwindows.html



A new introduction to the Browser market is Google Chrome, Google's first attempt at an internet browser. It is currently in a beta version, but it seems to be one of the fastest browsers out there. But, as it is still in beta, there are many stability and security problems with it. I would recommend against using it as your primary browser, for the moment at least, until the final release comes out.

Google Chrome 0.2.149 Beta: http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html?hl=en&brand=CHMG&utm_source=en-hpp&utm_medium=hpp&utm_campaign=en



So it really depends on what kind of person you are and what type of computer you have. You can't go wrong with IE or FF, but under stress, they perform slowly, Opera is a boring looking browser but can run where the other two can't, Safari has problems with rendering many webpages and there are far too many security risks with Chrome, but is much the fastest of them all. I personally use all five of them (but IE and Safari are my main two). If Apple ever get the rendering process sorted, it would be my number 1 choice.



Hope that helps.

Answer 5

Safari And Google Chrome , they the two are quickly and stable yet continuously shop IE because of the fact some web pages require it. Fore occasion i couldt do my military training on line with the different browser yet IE. so attempt them and desire it works out =]

Answer 6

Mozilla Firefox for sure, you can view this blog i found about them at http://www.brandonio21.blogspot.com <--my blog



i recomend:

BM DiscoverE

Mozilla Firefox



BM DISCOVERE is still in the beta process so it might not be exactly what you want, however it is extremely fast but mozilla is NOT in the BETA stage, so it would be a little more user friendly, PLUS it is fast and has user-submitted themes and extensions. so, Mozilla Firefox would be the way to go!

Answer 7

i would say mozilla firefox. i use firefox at home and my school has explorer. i like firefox a lot better. i haven't used safari or chrome.

Answer 8

my favorite is firefox...you can have plug-ins and a bunch of different features that are easy to use

IE was going to slow for me, and i haven't used it in years, so i would stay away

for safari, it's alright, but i also found it to be a bit slower than i would have liked

and for chrome, it's my second favorite. very user-friendly with the home page of most used sights, is well set up, but it doesn't have the ability to use plug-ins and other useful features that the others have.

Answer 9

I RECOMMEND GOOGLE CHROME BECAUSE OF ITS SECURITY WHEN COMPARE TO MOZILLA & SAFARI



Security

Chrome periodically downloads updates of two blacklists (one for phishing and one for malware), and warns users when they attempt to visit a harmful site. This service is also made available for use by others via a free public API called "Google Safe Browsing API". Google notifies the owners of listed sites who may not be aware of the presence of the harmful software

Chrome will typically allocate each tab to fit into its own process to "prevent malware from installing itself" or "using what happens in one tab to affect what happens in another", however the actual process allocation model is more complex.[25] Following the principle of least privilege, each process is stripped of its rights and can compute, but can not write files or read from sensitive areas (e.g. documents, desktop)—this is similar to "Protected Mode" that is used by Internet Explorer 7 on Windows Vista. The Sandbox Team is said to have "taken this existing process boundary and made it into a jail";[26] for example, malicious software running in one tab is unable to sniff credit card numbers, interact with the mouse, or tell "Windows to run an executable on start-up" and it will be terminated when the tab is closed. This enforces a simple computer security model whereby there are two levels of multilevel security (user and sandbox) and the sandbox can only respond to communication requests initiated by the user.[27]

Typically, Plugins such as Adobe Flash Player are not standardized and as such, cannot be sandboxed as tabs can be. These often need to run at, or above, the security level of the browser itself. To reduce exposure to attack, plugins are run in separate processes that communicate with the renderer, itself operating at "very low privileges" in dedicated per-tab processes. Plugins will need to be modified to operate within this software architecture while following the principle of least privilege.[7] Chrome supports the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI),[28][29] but does not support the embedding of ActiveX controls.[29] Also, Chrome does not have an extension system such as Mozilla's XPInstall architecture.[30] Java applets support is available in Chrome as part of the pending Java 6 update 10, which currently is in Release Candidate testing.[31]

A private browsing feature called Incognito mode is provided as well. It prevents the browser from storing any history information or cookies from the websites visited. This is similar to the private browsing feature available in Apple's Safari and the latest beta version of Internet Explorer 8

A security expert, Aviv Raff, has criticized what serves as the automatic file download feature that comes enabled by default in Google Chrome. They argued that it could be used easily by an attacker to trick a user into opening a malicious executable file.

A denial-of-service vulnerability was found that allowed a malicious web page to crash the whole web browser.[34][35] However, Google Chrome developers confirmed the flaw, and it was fixed in the 0.2.149.29 release.





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Answer 10

Well, theres not much of a difference in web browsers in terms of online security these days, mostly all of them are secure, and also all of them are relatively the same in terms of browsing speed or opening web pages....And all of the browsers provide tabbed browsing too.....

A user might go for any browser which appeals to him/her, I mean the accessibility of the browser in terms of the user interface it provides such as the Menu items, the shortcuts, the buttons etc etc....

You gotta try every single browser to know which suits you best......

Answer 11

well, what do you want to use it for.... the fastest is Internet Exploroer,,,

If you are a Mac fan, then Safari is pretty cool

Firefox, is great... but statistics show that it is the slowest...

but, only by half a second...lol

google chrome, is really cool... i like it

it really depends on what you want...

Answer 12

i've used firefox for a long time now and have not switched back to IE at all. firefox has more features, easier to use, safer, faster, more customizable, and user friendly. check it out for yourself



http://www.mozilla.org/firefox