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Apple's Safari, Mozilla's Firefox 3, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8
Back when the earliest programs for viewing Web content simply browsed flat pages of images and text, the name browser truly fit the software.
Butyesterday's amateur pages have evolved into dynamic, content-richportals and powerful online programs. For many online habitués, thedo-it-all browser has become a PC's single most important program.
Recognizingthat fact, Apple's Safari, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and Mozilla'sFirefox are battling to win the nod as your browser of choice. So whichone should you use--Safari 3.1, Firefox 3, or Internet Explorer 8?
Apple's latest offering, Safari 3.1, preserves the company's signature focus on clean design and smooth usability, but it lacks any phishing or malware filters.
For its part, Mozilla should have applied the finishing touches to Firefox 3 by the time you read this (I tested the feature-complete beta 5 release). From under-the-hood memory improvements to a major reworking for bookmarks, version 3 represents a big step forward.
Whereas the new Firefox and Safari browsers are ready to roll, Microsoft's early beta of Internet Explorer 8remains a work in progress. Bugs and rough edges are to be expected ina first beta intended for developers and testers. But IE 8 beta 1provides a glimpse of new features such as WebSlices (which let sitescreate widgety snippets of information that you can view by clicking abookmark button) and Activities (which add right-click menu options forlooking up selected text and pages on map, translation and other sites)that will distinguish the browser Microsoft eventually releases.
Firefox,IE, and Safari are the three most popular browsers, according toInternet usage statistics, but they aren't the only ones available. SoI also took a separate look at two worthwhile, free programs--Flock and Opera.SRI
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