Customizing Your Web Browser

[DudeAsInCool]

The number of competitors to Internet Explorer is surprisingly large and diverse. The most commonly mentioned alternatives are Mozilla and its cousin, the recently released Firefox 1.0, two browsers descended from Netscape, the early Internet company that is now part of AOL. Firefox is a Web browser pure and simple. Mozilla uses the same basic core (known as Gecko) and adds tools for reading e-mail, chatting and composing Web pages.

If you are considering making the leap to a different browser, there are other choices, too. A Norwegian company, Opera, is selling its browser (though a free version that displays advertising is available as well). Apple has Safari, which builds on one called Konqueror, from the world of Linux.

Read more here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/technolo...basi.html?8hpib

[KiwiCoromandel]

good article..i`m cruising on mozilla`s latest beta release at the moment...very nice..... :good job:

[slum_goddess]

i still haven't upgraded to mozilla 1.0 :nope: (it's down the loooong list of my priorities but i will get to it ASAP)

[method77]

Articles like these in big media are just repeating what the geek sites said about 2 years ago. NYT or any media giant just doesn't have the guts to write stuff like this earlier.