FireFox ,Opera & other Internet Browsers.......

Hi every body ,

Most of the people uses internet in his daily life for various purposes ,so we get connected to the live world through a tool known as browser.So lets discuss few browsers today.There nearly 10+ browsers available today supporting various operating systems.Among this most known browsers are Internet Explorer , Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox,Opera , Netscape, and Safari.Lets discuss few of this here considering different aspects.

Internet Explorer (IE):-

IE browser is developed by the Microsoft Corp. This is the most widely used browser , today most of the PC's have IE 6 browser.The problem with IE6 is that it doesn't have multiple tabs , each time it opens a new window which makes our explorer a mesh of window.However this problem is overcome in there updated browser IE 7.

The main problems with the IE browsers are that they throw script and html errors frequently. From developer point of view its a headache to handle there Java script and JSP codes in IE. Suppose if your using one form in another form it will through an error as a result it throws an alert which is hard to understand for this we require visual studio(developed by Microsoft) 'is this is a business tactics by the organization[:)].Its not friendly to web developer point of view.

Any how due to well established in the market they are 1st in place.But if the development in developing there browser is slow like this then its a big problem for them. If you want to download the IE7 you can get from here.

Mozilla & Mozilla Firefox:-

In my point of view this is the best user as well as developer friendly.These two products are developed by Mozilla Corporation.These browsers are open source and come up with huge number of add-ons (themes ,web developing tool bars,etc.), here you can create your own extension but need to know some technology.The main advantage of mozilla is it supports Windows Mac os and Linux in .It come up with multi search engine sights and you can configure it.
Among this add-ons well famous ones are,

• cooliris Previews:-its just similar to snap shots its open the link in a dialog window you don't need to go that page.
• firebug:-This the feature which every developer would like to have.Using this u can see the page download time,can see how many requests are being passed while loading the page,you can dynamically change the HTML code and see the changes at that instance.
• Dictionary Tooltip:- Here you can see the meaning of unknown word.
• FoxyTunes:-You can listen online music while surfing in web.
• Web Developer:-Adds a web developer tool bar which can be used while debugging the code of web based applications.

...and lots more.

The draw back of firefox is it crashes more when compare to other browsers.But any how the updated version is some what stable.You can get Firefox updated version from here.

Opera:-Opera browser comes for the windows machines.The following considerations they make in there updated version.Let me discuss some salient security features here.

Security: -

• Fraud Protection:-It will protect your personal data from being steal by the websites.You can see the demo here
• Encryption:-Opera supports Secure Socket Layer (SSL) versions 2 and 3, and TLS. Opera offers automatic 256-bit encryption, the highest available security of any Web browser.
  
• Cookie control
• Security bar are some key features.

You can see all features in opera downloading site.

Safari:-Safari is developed by Apple Inc. Its totally performance based browser.Its available for Mac OS & windows think so. They(apple) clam it to be a fastest browser on any platform.You can see stats and download product from this link.

So these are some of the browsers which i have used.Please share your view, opinions and if you know any thing more about the browsers.
Lets see in coming years who dominates in the world.