Due in June, Mozilla says 'Firefox 3' is ready to rock!

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 24 March 2008 18:05

Opinion and Analysis

Other popular web browsers include the following:

There's Maxthon, which uses the Internet Explorer 7 engine but is a very capable browser nevertheless, offering many more features than stock standard IE7.

If you're an IE7 user, and wish you could improve it, why not try the free IE7 Pro add on - it lets you easily open accidentally closed tabs, it remembers which sites you were browsing should IE7 crash, it can block ads and can do plenty more.

The old 'Netscape Navigator' is still available, now in version 9, but as it is really little more than a re-skinned version of Firefox 2, and has now been officially discontinued (despite its ongoing downloadability), it's best just to stick with Firefox, unless you're particularly nostalgic.

You could also try the Slim Browser, last updated in late 2007, and claiming to be the best 'tabbed browser'.

Another browser with a very small market share is the Avant Browser, which still claims to be the fastest on earth, although Firefox and Safari would certainly beg to differ.

The final interesting browser is called Flock. Based on Firefox, it's billed as the perfect browser for those who love social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and many others.

Mac users are really best served by either Safari or Firefox, with any other browsers out there not really rating at all, although the old (but now discontinued) Internet Explorer for Mac still gets sporadic use on some (likely older) Macs. Linux users also have a few choices too, although I'd wager (not being a big Linux user as yet) that Firefox is still one of the more popular Linux browsers.

So, there's still plenty of choice in the world of browsers, although IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera are the main four browsers fighting it out for dominance on the world wide web!