Alternative Browers
Alternative Web Browsers
Leana Matthews Alternative Web Browsers
As you undoubtedly know, a web browser is simply a piece of software that requests and then decodes and displays the files that make up Internet pages. Certainly Microsoft 's Internet Explorer and Mozilla 's Firefox are by far the most commonly used browsers, but there are probably at least 50 to 70 others that are available for public use, and virtually all of them have their staunch fans and supporters. Two other major players in the game are Google 's entry Chrome and Opera, which has been through many versions and is very popular particularly in Europe. Different browsers appear to have different degrees of utility depending on the materials to be accessed and the used to be made of the material by the recipient. So for this exercise, you are to compare the performance of your most commonly used browser, whatever it might be, to at least two others that you can either download or access directly online, in terms of the way they perform on several basic kinds of Internet tasks.
For each browser, try to use it to at least access, if not actively work with, each of the following type of common web sites:
• A news site (newspaper, cable news outlet, etc.)
• A sports site
• A large retail operation (Amazon.com or BestBuy.com might be good examples)
• A travel site
• If possible, a private site used in your workplace (obviously, nothing too confidential!)
• A social networking site (Facebook, Twitter, etc,)
• Something else that you use frequently, if possible
When you have had a chance to conduct your comparative evaluations and make notes (it may be helpful to take screenshots if possible -- the key combination ALT-PRNTSCRN will copy the active window into your computer 's clipboard, and you can then use PASTE to insert the resulting picture into your Word document), please prepare a brief summary of your experiences with the different browsers, identifying:
• any differences you
Leana Matthews Alternative Web Browsers
As you undoubtedly know, a web browser is simply a piece of software that requests and then decodes and displays the files that make up Internet pages. Certainly Microsoft 's Internet Explorer and Mozilla 's Firefox are by far the most commonly used browsers, but there are probably at least 50 to 70 others that are available for public use, and virtually all of them have their staunch fans and supporters. Two other major players in the game are Google 's entry Chrome and Opera, which has been through many versions and is very popular particularly in Europe. Different browsers appear to have different degrees of utility depending on the materials to be accessed and the used to be made of the material by the recipient. So for this exercise, you are to compare the performance of your most commonly used browser, whatever it might be, to at least two others that you can either download or access directly online, in terms of the way they perform on several basic kinds of Internet tasks.
For each browser, try to use it to at least access, if not actively work with, each of the following type of common web sites:
• A news site (newspaper, cable news outlet, etc.)
• A sports site
• A large retail operation (Amazon.com or BestBuy.com might be good examples)
• A travel site
• If possible, a private site used in your workplace (obviously, nothing too confidential!)
• A social networking site (Facebook, Twitter, etc,)
• Something else that you use frequently, if possible
When you have had a chance to conduct your comparative evaluations and make notes (it may be helpful to take screenshots if possible -- the key combination ALT-PRNTSCRN will copy the active window into your computer 's clipboard, and you can then use PASTE to insert the resulting picture into your Word document), please prepare a brief summary of your experiences with the different browsers, identifying:
• any differences you
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