Firefox – Released first in 2004 Firefox, the second position browser in terms of number of people using in this World has its root with Mozilla Application Suite. The creators of Firefox, Blake Ross and Dave Hyatt thought of browser carried around by multi-purpose suite and hence Phoenix previous name of Firefox was born. The name was changed to Firefox to avoid trademark infringement since Phoenix was the mane of BIOS manufacturer. Firefox had a fine beginning, its feature set was highlighted in the media. Firefox released in 2004, Firefox came with a search bar built into menu bar. It also had pop-up blocker, built-in RSS reader, tabbed browsing, central download manager and was believed to be more secured than internet explorer as it did not supported ActiveX or VBScript. Firefox had a continue success as it supported extensions. [...]
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Things changed rapidly when going into next century. New browsers with added features were available in the market to make your web browsing entertaining. Amaya – Released first in 1996 Amaya created in 1996 by W3C was more the web editor than web browser. The creation of this browser was with a goal to create testbed that stick to more standards. The development of Amaya is still on, but its use is as a testbed for new technologies. [...] September 6th, 2009 | Tags: Amaya, oracle power browser, web browser | Category: News
 Leave a commentOpera – Released first in 1996 Before Opera it was called MultiTorg Opera. It was in version 2.0 Opera was available to general public as shareware and the tag of MultiTorg was removed. Opera 2.0 was written from scratch and had nothing to do with Mosaic, Netscape or IE. Opera 2.0 supported HTML 3.0 and was able to zoom the full page from 20 percent to 1000 percent. It saved, opened, inserted and restored sessions and could support video. [...] IBM WebExplorer – Released first in 1994 IBM launched its operating system OS/2 in the year 1987 to work on PCs. After seven years in 1994 IBM served its own web browser called WebExplorer a free download for OS/2 users. IBM bundled WebExplorer in OS/2 Bonus Pack from April 1995 and had collection of applications put together in a CD and included with Wrap. WebExplorer had integration of mail and news and users were able to have a look at browsing history through WebMap. A links menu had all the links on the viewed webpage organized in a pull-down menu. This was used in conjunction with Voice Type voice navigation of IBM. [...] September 4th, 2009 | Tags: IBM WebExplorer, internet explorer, web browser | Category: News
Leave a commentMoving further ahead of the year 1992, the web browsers saw progressive changes that made web browsing much more interesting and entertaining. With each passing year the development were noteworthy in the development of web browsers. Here are some of them. MidasWWW – Released first in 1992 MidasWWW released in November 1992 and developed by Tony Johnson was called Midas. Midas stood for Motif Interactive Data Analysis Shell. This browser was popular among physicists but Johnson didn’t took interest in development of MidasWWW. But one of his colleague translated it to run on VAX computers, thus making it one of the few number of dedicated browsers to be used for VAXes. [...] September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: web browser, web browser's history, web browsers | Category: News
Leave a commentYou require a web browser to surf the web and at present there are many to choose from. If your search is for lean browser then Chrome is the one you require. Internet Explorer has still an edge over the other browsers if you want to make sure that web pages load correctly, its not because of internet explorer having superior standards but rather developers on the web are driven to code the webpages that look best on internet explorer. Firefox has also found its market share more than niche market by providing users the customization that’s endless. Safari of Apple contends to run around everyone else. And then there are Flock which is Firefox based and Avant which is internet explorer based which are browser shells. [...] August 31st, 2009 | Tags: web browser, web browser evolution, website | Category: News
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