Safari For Windows Mobile

Which web browser should I use?   by Matt

If statistics are to be believed, then there’s a good chance that you’re reading this post using a version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. The market dominance of IE has many people, including the European Union, questioning Microsoft’s dominance of the browser share, particularly when Internet Explorer is pre-installed on Windows machines. Most users will be happy to use it, without considering something else and many businesses can’t afford to replace IE with another better browser, even if the alternatives are free, open-source products.

So what are those alternatives? The big four main choices are Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

Firefox is produced by the Mozilla Foundation. It has an impressive history, going way back to the birth of the Internet.
Chrome is Google’s opening gambit in the web browser market and features as a key component in the imminent Chrome OS.
Apple’s Safari is becoming increasingly popular. Available for Mac and Windows, it is also the browser inside the iPhone and iPad.
Opera is made by the Norwegian company, Opera Software, who specialise in providing web browsers for many platforms, including mobile phones. Remember, all these web browsers are free and can be easily downloaded and installed on your Windows, OS X or Linux machine.
Let’s take a look at each in a little more detail.

Firefox
Firefox has the second largest market share, behind Internet Explorer, and is a pure cross-platform browser. It is available for Windows, OS X and Linux and comes with a massive amount of features, such as tabbed browsing, spell-checking, a download manager and private browsing. Thousands of ‘Addons’ are available, which can be download via Firefox and installed to add extra functionality to your browsing experience.

Chrome
Chrome was introduced to the browser market by Google in December 2008 and it aims to improve security, speed, and stability. There are extensive differences from its peers in Chrome’s minimalistic user interface, which is atypical of modern web browsers. Chrome’s strength is its application performance and JavaScript processing speed, both of which were independently verified by multiple websites to be the swiftest among the major browsers of its time. Many of Chrome’s unique features had been previously announced by other browser developers, but Google was the first to implement and publicly release them.

Safari
Safari, from Apple, is currently on version 5.1. It’s is a must for all Mac users, but there is a Windows version available. It features plenty of user interface ‘eye candy’, like Cover Flow for history, searchable history and full-page zoom. It performs nearly as fast as Chrome and has great support for RSS including a built-in RSS reader, RSS aggregation and RSS bookmarking. With the full weight of the Apple corporation behind it and its inclusion on the iPhone, iPod Touch and more recently the iPad, Safari is definitely here to stay.

Opera
Opera is often overlooked by many users and unknown to many more, but, like Firefox and Chrome, it is available on a whole range of operating systems including Windows, OS X and Linux. With Chrome demonstrating the need for Javascript speed in the web browser and Safari almost matching it, the current version 10 concentrates on speed and performance. Other features include Visual Tabs (which shows a thumbnail of the page when hovering a tab), Speed Dial, Webmail Integration and Inline Spell-Checker.
All these browsers tend to adopt new web standards quicker than Internet Explorer. The wheels at Microsoft turn slowly and when new web standards appear it is normally IE that complies last. If you want a free, safer, smoother, faster and regularly updated alternative to the “standard Windows browser”, then I’d strongly recommend one of the above.

About the Author

Matt is the owner of purpleplanet – Software Solutions. He designs and builds websites and web systems for customers and, when not spending time at home with his family, tries to find interesting tidbits of news to post here!

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