Popular Browsers

Netscape

One of the popular browsers in use on the Web today is Netscape Navigator, from Netscape Communications Corporation. Netscape Navigator is most commonly just called Netscape. Netscape 7.0 offers enhanced performance and stability plus a fine-tuned Netscape Gecko browser engine to speed you through the most common online activities.

Tabbed Browsing in Netscape 7.0 lets you keep track of multiple sites or pages at once by letting you view them within a single browser window. You can easily click between pages using a tabbed interface. Tabs load in the background so you can browse the Web faster-and stay organized. To use Tabbed Browsing, click on the Tab icon in the left hand corner next to the first Tab or right mouse click on a tab or go to the File menu and choose New Navigator Tab. You can also open hypertext links within a new tab by right clicking on the link. The current version is available for downloading at Netscape's site at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp

NCSA Mosaic

Mosaic had a place on the Web as the most popular browser. Indeed, Mosaic was the first of the full-color graphical browsers and is usually credited with making the Web as popular as it is today.

Mosaic is developed by NCSA at the University of Illinois, with several supported commercial versions available from companies such as Spry and Spyglass. NCSA Mosaic is free for personal use and comes in versions for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX (the X Window System); each version is colloquially called WinMosaic, MacMosaic, and XMosaic, respectively. The latest version of NCSA Mosaic for Windows is version 3.0. You can find out more information and download a copy from http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html.

Lynx

Lynx ("links," get it?), originally developed by the University of Kansas and now by Foteos Macrides at the Worcester Foundation for Biological Research, is an excellent browser for text-only Internet connections such as dial-up UNIX accounts. It requires VT100 terminal emulation, which most terminal emulation programs should support. You can use arrow keys to select links in Web pages. Because Lynx runs on systems that lack the ability to display graphics, viewing Web pages using Lynx gives you nothing but the text and the links. You can download it from, ftp://ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser software unlocks the possibilities of the Internet. Internet Explorer 6 is a set of core technologies in Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional, and is available to users of Microsoft Windows® 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me), Microsoft Windows NT® Workstation 4.0, and Windows 2000 Professional operating systems. Internet Explorer 6 includes many new and enhanced features that can simplify the daily tasks that you perform, while helping you to maintain the privacy of your personal information on the Web. You can download it from, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp

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