3 main web browsers for Windows platform
Nearly 10 years ago, Internet is not so popular as nowadays, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are the main web browser. Actually, Microsoft is a freshman but Netscape is senior. In this condition, Microsoft Internet Explorer went up rapidly with the help of Windows prevalence. During a long time, Internet Explorer is the most popular web browser on Windows platform without any competitors.
But now the condition changes, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and even the Apple Inc. aslo released its Safari for Windows. So it is very good for Windows users that they have more browser options to surf Internet and watch online movie. Windows 7 is the new released Windows system and its default web browser is Internet Explorer 8.0. But Windows 7 also allows you to remove IE8 from Windows 7 temporarily if you want to surf webpage with other web browsers. Followings are options for you to browse webpage in Windows 7.
1. Default Internet Explorer - Most of Windows users complained that Microsoft Internet Explorer always break down suddenly when surf Internet, and it runs slowly than other browser, so some of users turn their focus to the third party web browser such as: Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Coogle Chrome. Frankly speaking, Internet Explorer 8.0 has improved more than old version, especially than IE 6.0. security protection such as: popups blocking, anti-phishing etc. resolution makes IE 8.0 more safer than before. In addition, IE is the own product of Microsoft, so its compatibility will be better than others. If you want to save your Windows originally, it is better for you to browse webpage with Windows default IE browser.
2. Google Chrome - Chrome browser is developed by search engine tycoon Google in September, 2008. At the beginning, Google said that Chrome is the fastest web browser for users, and according to the test by Lifehacker, Google Chrome surpasses others and gets the first postion in running speed. Now Goolge has launched its new Google Chrome 4.0, so if you wanna a extremely fast surfing experience, you can have a trial with Google Chrome web browser.
3. Mozilla Firefox - Mozill Firefox is an open source web browser so that most of uers could add their own plug-ins onto Firefox in order to customize their web browser. Recently, Mozilla release the latest Mozilla Firefox 3.6 beta, but this beta version isn't compatible with most of Firefox plug-ins, so it is suggested that you can download Mozilla Firefox 3.5 stable version to surf webpage with this well performed third party browser for Windows.
To sum up, users have lots of webpage browser options in Windows platform, no matter what you want to use, IE, Firefox and Chrome. They all perform well in Windows platform but none of them is perfect. So you can select the one your favorite to surf webpage in Windows.
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