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Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator was a
proprietary web browser that was popular in the 1990s. It was the
flagship product of the
Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant web browser in terms of
usage share, although by 2002 its usage had almost disappeared. This was primarily due to the increased usage of Microsoft's
Internet Explorer web browser software, and partly because the Netscape Corporation (later purchased by
AOL) did not sustain Netscape Navigator's technical innovation after the late 1990s.
The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of
Microsoft's antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that
Microsoft Corporation's bundling of Internet Explorer with the
Windows operating system was a
monopolistic and illegal business practice. The decision came too late for Netscape however, as Internet Explorer had by then become the dominant web browser in Windows.
The Netscape Navigator web browser was succeeded by
Netscape Communicator. Netscape Communicator's 4.x source code was the base for the Netscape-developed
Mozilla Application Suite, which was later renamed
SeaMonkey. Netscape's Mozilla Suite also served as the base for a browser-only spinoff called
Mozilla Firefox and
Netscape versions 6 through 9.
AOL formally stopped development of Netscape Navigator on December 28, 2007, but continued supporting the web browser with security updates until March 1, 2008, when AOL canceled technical support. AOL allows downloading of archived versions of the Netscape Navigator web browser family. Moreover, AOL maintains the Netscape website as an
Internet portal.
Internet Explorer
Windows Internet Explorer (formerly
Microsoft Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated
IE or
MSIE) is a series of
graphical web browsers developed by
Microsoft and included as part of the
Microsoft Windows line of
operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package
Plus! for Windows 95 that year. Later versions were available as free downloads, or in
service packs, and included in the
OEM service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows.
Internet Explorer has been the most widely used web browser since 1999, attaining a peak of about 95%
usage share during 2002 and 2003 with
Internet Explorer 5 and
Internet Explorer 6.
[citation needed] Since its peak of popularity, its usage share has been declining in the face of renewed competition from other web browsers, and
is currently 40.9% as of June 2011
[update]. It had been slighly higher,
43.55%as of February 2011, just prior to the release of the current version. Microsoft spent over $100 million USD per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s,
[1] with over 1000 people working on it by 1999.
[2]
Since its first release, Microsoft has added features and technologies such as basic
table display (in
version 1.5);
XMLHttpRequest (in
version 5), which aids creation of dynamic web pages; and
Internationalized Domain Names (in
version 7), which allow Web sites to have native-language addresses with non-
Latin characters. The browser has also received scrutiny throughout its development for use of third-party technology (such as the
source code of
Spyglass Mosaic, used without royalty in early versions) and security and privacy
vulnerabilities, and both
the United States and
the European Union have alleged that integration of Internet Explorer with Windows has been to the detriment of other browsers.
The latest stable release is
Internet Explorer 9, which is available as a free update for
Windows 7,
Windows Vista SP2,
Windows Server 2008 and
Windows Server 2008 R2. Internet Explorer was to be omitted from Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in Europe, but Microsoft ultimately included it, with a browser option screen allowing users to select any of several web browsers (including Internet Explorer).
Versions of Internet Explorer for other operating systems have also been produced, including an embedded OEM version called Pocket Internet Explorer, later rebranded
Internet Explorer Mobile, which is currently based on Internet Explorer 7 and made for
Windows Phone 7,
Windows CE, and previously
Windows Mobile. It remains in development alongside the more advanced desktop versions.
Internet Explorer for Mac and
Internet Explorer for UNIX (
Solaris and
HP-UX) have been discontinued.
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a
free and open source web browser descended from the
Mozilla Application Suite and managed by
Mozilla Corporation. As of August 2011
[update], Firefox is the second most widely used browser, with approximately 30% of worldwide
usage share of web browsers.
The browser has had particular success in
Germany and
Poland, where it is the most popular browser with 55% usageand 47%
respectively.
To display web pages, Firefox uses the
Gecko layout engine, which implements most current
web standards in addition to several features that are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards.
The latest Firefox features
[14] include
tabbed browsing,
spell checking,
incremental find,
live bookmarking, a
download manager,
private browsing, location-aware browsing (also known as "
geolocation") based exclusively on a
Google service
[15] and an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most localizations. Functions can be added through
extensions, created by
third-party developers,
of which there is a wide selection, a feature that has attracted many of Firefox's users.
Firefox runs on various
operating systems including
Microsoft Windows,
GNU/Linux,
Mac OS X,
FreeBSD, and many other platforms. Its current stable release is version 6.0.2, released on September 6, 2011
[update].
Firefox's
source code is
tri-licensed under the
GNU GPL,
GNU LGPL, or
Mozilla Public License.
Opera
Opera is a
web browser and
Internet suite developed by
Opera Software with over 200 million users worldwide
. The browser handles common
Internet-related tasks such as displaying
web sites, sending and receiving
e-mail messages, managing contacts,
chatting on
IRC, downloading files via
BitTorrent, and reading
web feeds. Opera is offered free of charge for
personal computers and
mobile phones.
Opera does not come packaged with any
desktop operating system. However, it is the most popular desktop browser in some countries, such as
Ukraine.
Opera Mini, which is the
most popular mobile web browser as of May 2011, has been chosen as the default integrated web browser in several
mobile handsets by their respective manufacturers.
Features include
tabbed browsing,
page zooming,
mouse gestures, and an integrated
download manager. Its security features include built-in
phishing and
malware protection,
SSL/TLS encryption when browsing
HTTPS websites, and the ability to easily
[citation needed] delete private data such as
HTTP cookies.
Opera is known for originating many features later adopted by other web browsers.
Opera runs on a variety of personal computer
operating systems, including
Microsoft Windows,
Mac OS X,
Linux, and
FreeBSD. Editions of Opera are available for devices using the
Maemo,
BlackBerry,
Symbian,
Windows Mobile,
Android, and
iOS operating systems, as well as
Java ME-enabled devices.
Approximately 120 million mobile phones have been shipped with Opera.
Opera is the only commercial web browser available for the
Nintendo DS and
Wii gaming systems. Some television
set-top boxes use Opera.
Adobe Systems has licensed Opera technology for use in the
Adobe Creative Suite.
Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a
web browser developed by
Google that uses the
WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a
beta version for
Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the
graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. As of August 2011, Chrome is the third most widely used browser with 23.16% worldwide
usage share of web browsers, according to
StatCounter.
In September 2008, Google released a large portion of Chrome's source code, including its
V8 JavaScript engine, as an
open source project entitled
Chromium.
This move enabled third-party developers to study the underlying source code and to help port the browser to the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. Google also expressed hope that other browsers would adopt V8 to improve web application performance. The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the permissive
BSD license,
which allows portions to be incorporated into both open source and closed source software programs.
Other portions of the source code are subject to a variety of open source licenses.
Chromium implements a similar feature set as Chrome, but lacks built-in automatic updates, built-in PDF reader and Google branding, and most noticeably has a blue-colored logo in place of the multicolored Google logo.
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