Internet Explorer 6 has been upgraded to Internet Explorer 7. You must run Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Vista to download and use it. It will also run on Windows Server 2003 and folks don't try to uninstall Internet Explorer if you opt for another browser. Can we say chaos? There's a bunch of hoorah on Windows site about version 7 and they seem proud of it. At best, it's okay. Go to the IE7 site to download.
Just downloaded Opera 9.2.1. This is a browser that's been around for a while. For years you had to buy the full edition which is one of the reasons it is not well known. Several years ago they decided to go "free" and some people swearr by it. It is a very clean, easy to use, lightwweight browser. It's fast, very fast. Try it you might like it.
SeaMonkey does exist. I didn't make it up. It comes to us from the folks at mozilla,org, the home of the Firefox browser (more on that below). It will run on Linux, Mac, Windows and OS2. OS2? If you don't know don't worry. This is an all-in-one browser, email, chat, news feed, HTML editor that has the look of the last Mozilla thangy before Firefox. How can you not like something called SeaMonkey?
Favorite browser used at the beach house for Windows machines? That winner is Firefox. Yes, you do have to download 2 or 3 plugins after installation, but when they are needed you just click on the download button (it looks like a piece of jigsaw puzzle) and they install in seconds hassle free. You only download these once. Then it's off to the safest, coolest browser out there. The addons for Firefox are many and some are tremendous. Good product.
Yes, there is a number 5. KDE's Konqueror is my favorite for Linux. It is clean, constantly improving and there's just something about the way text, photos, graphics, etc., look inside Konqueror. It's just better. Before you ask, yes, it will run on Windows XP. It's not your "average" installation. The beach house is working on it and will report the findings later.
Check out Gizmo Richard's opinion on web browsers at Tech Support Alert. This dude is a great source of info when it comes to freeware. Meanwhile, browse away. Browse back here often and please browse amongst your friends and give them this address: http://cybersouth.blogspot.com. Hope this helps!
"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure."
~Douglas Adams
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