ChasUFarley Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 How many different web browsers are there now? I know of Mozilla Firefox (my favorite) and Microsoft Explorer (my LEAST favorite)... Can you name some others? Just wondering... as usual.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WordWolf Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are the basis for all other web browsers. All browsers, AFAIK, are variations of one or the other. IE2, now known as Maxthon, is a recommended IE ripoff. Mozilla is what the Netscape Navigator was based on. So, you have Netscape, and the current builds of Mozilla, and variations: Opera is a complicated Mozilla build. Mozilla minus the Opera frills was Phoenix, which became Firebird, which became Firefox. That's what I know offhand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChasUFarley Posted January 5, 2006 Author Share Posted January 5, 2006 Got 'cha... I think... Now, can you say it again slower... (Just kidding...) (It sounds like a small town in Maine - there's only two or three last names you need to know and everyone is related!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmiller Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Used to use Internet Explorer. Am using Safari now. Soooo much nicer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawtucket Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 http://www.flock.com/about/ I just heard about this one last month. It is called Flock and is in Beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WordWolf Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 The practical differences, as I see it, between IE builds and Mozilla builds: A) Mozilla builds tend to have fewer security exploits which are patched faster. B) Mozilla builds tend to be based on better code. C) Some websites are standards-compliant, but those that aren't are all built to work with IE. (That means IE works with just about everything.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 (edited) In a fit of compulsive geekiness, I would have to add Lynx, the DOS-based, text only browser to the list. Edited January 10, 2006 by Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluzeman Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I was going to mention Lynx, but didn't think anyone else would know what I was talking about. :) Except my copy is posix-based (running on FreeBsd). Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Yup, been ported to Unix and Unix-like operating systems. I ran it on a cheap dos box for a couple of days. I hear it's popular with vision impaired people who feed the text stream into a text-to-voice synth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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WordWolf
Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are the basis for all other
web browsers. All browsers, AFAIK, are variations of one or the other.
IE2, now known as Maxthon, is a recommended IE ripoff.
Mozilla is what the Netscape Navigator was based on.
So, you have Netscape, and the current builds of Mozilla,
and variations: Opera is a complicated Mozilla build.
Mozilla minus the Opera frills was Phoenix, which became
Firebird, which became Firefox.
That's what I know offhand.
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ChasUFarley
Got 'cha...
I think...
Now, can you say it again slower...
(Just kidding...)
(It sounds like a small town in Maine - there's only two or three last names you need to know and everyone is related!)
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dmiller
Used to use Internet Explorer.
Am using Safari now.
Soooo much nicer!
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pawtucket
http://www.flock.com/about/
I just heard about this one last month. It is called Flock and is in Beta.
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WordWolf
The practical differences, as I see it, between
IE builds and Mozilla builds:
A) Mozilla builds tend to have fewer security exploits
which are patched faster.
B) Mozilla builds tend to be based on better code.
C) Some websites are standards-compliant,
but those that aren't are all built to work with IE.
(That means IE works with just about everything.)
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Jim
In a fit of compulsive geekiness, I would have to add Lynx, the DOS-based, text only browser to the list.
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Bluzeman
I was going to mention Lynx, but didn't think anyone else would know what I was talking about. :) Except my copy is posix-based (running on FreeBsd).
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Yup, been ported to Unix and Unix-like operating systems. I ran it on a cheap dos box for a couple of days. I hear it's popular with vision impaired people who feed the text stream into a text-to-voice synth.
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