The program you use to browse the internet is known, funnily enough, as an internet browser. The most well known of these is Internet Explorer, because it comes free with Windows. You'll see the familiar blue E symbol on your desktop, double click and away you go! But just because it is included on your computer, this doesn't make it the only option available to you.Lots of companies have released their own browsers, such as Google's Chrome browser. One of the first companies to produce an Internet Explorer alternative was Mozilla. Their free browser, Firefox, was the first to introduce tabbed browsing, and after a little bit of practice, is a lot of fun to work with. Because Firefox is open source, any flaws and security holes in the program are easily fixed and updated quickly. And if you want new features to add to your browser, making your internet experience better for you, you can download add-ons. For example, if you are sick of flashing ads at the top of the pages you browse, you can download the Ad Blocker add-on, and stop those ads from ever showing up on your screen again. See what I mean? You have the ability to make browsing the experience you want it to be. You can add things you maybe hadn't even considered as convenient in a browser! Happy Browsing!
With thanks to techie4fun on the PC World Forums for telling me this week about Ad Blocker and Ad Blocker Plus Add-ons.
1 comment:
Actually Firefox was not the first to introduce tabbed browsing (AFAIK it was the third, but before IE). I recall seeing Opera with tabbed browsing before Firefox, but the first was the now dead NetCaptor.
In an unrelated note, I still have my boxed Netscape 1.2.
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