Firefox
March 27, 2008
Firefox is a web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had about 15% of the recorded usage share of Web browsers as of January 2008 making Firefox the second-most popular browser in current use worldwide after Internet Explorer. Firefox has been considered a “rival” to Internet Explorer.
Firefox uses the open-source Gecko layout engine, which implements some current Web standards plus a few features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.
Firefox includes tabbed browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager, and a search system that uses Google. Functions can be added through more than 2,000 add-ons created by third party developers; the most popular include NoScript (script blocker), FoxyTunes (controls music players), Adblock Plus (ad blocker), StumbleUpon (website discovery), DownThemAll! (download functions) and Web Developer (web tools).
Latest version: 2.0.0.13 updated
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Flock
March 6, 2008
Flock is a web browser built on Mozilla’s Firefox codebase. Flock integrates various blog, news aggregation, and social networking sites including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger, and others. When users log in to any of the 15 supported social services, the browser asks them if it should remember their account. If a user does so, Flock will announce when friends have uploaded photos or published other items. The browser claims to “allow easy media sharing via drag and drop, easy photo uploading, and a built-in blog editor for easy posting from anywhere on the web.”
Latest version: 1.0.9
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Camino
March 6, 2008
Camino is an internet browser based on mozilla engine. It makes your web experience more productive, more efficient, more secure, and more fun. It looks and feels like a Mac OS X application should, because it was designed exclusively for Mac OS X and the high standards set by Mac users.
Features:
- Uses the Gecko rendering engine, the same engine used in the popular Firefox web browser.
- Integrates tightly with your Mac OS X computing environment.
- Annoyance Control
- Provides useful tools for searching both the internet and individual web pages.
- Privacy and Security Tools
- Tabbed Browsing
- Download Manager
- Universal Binary
Latest version: 1.5.5 updated
Opera
January 13, 2007
Opera is the world’s fastest, most secure browser. Opera 9 comes loaded with the tools to keep you productive and safe.
Features:
- Navigate quickly using intuitive mouse gestures and browser tabs.
- Start from where your last browsing session ended or save your entire session.
- Access downloaded files quickly with the transfer manager.
- Protect against identity theft and phishing with integrated security features.
- Speak up: surf the web hands-free using voice commands.
- Shop Amazon, browse eBay and search the web with Google right from the address bar.
- Set reminders for web pages you visit with the notes feature.
- … and many more rich features ….
Latest version: 9.26 updated
