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Microsoft Internet Explorer
If you are using a Windows machine, IE would be the best browser to go for.
If you don't already have it, Internet Explorer homepage at
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/
will be a good place to search for it. It is free, of course!
The latest release was last found at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/ie6sp1/default.asp
, so you might want to go straight there as well.
The installer is rather huge and don't try this @ home unless you've a broadband connection.
If your connection is slow, best thing to do will be to buy one of those mags
who always fill their CD's with browsers and stuff.
Mozilla
This is another great browser which is supposed to work well with Windows, Linux and Mac.
An open-source browser named after the original great browser that Netscape came up with
during its years of glory. Netscape has faded out in competition, but this new venture
looks poised for a bright future.
The latest release is at
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-win32-1.4-installer.exe
and the latest night-build is at
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-win32.zip. There is a light version
of this at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/
which they call Mozilla Firebird. Mozilla optionally blocks popup windows.
For those of you interested in trivia, Mozilla is what
Netscape named their Netscape Version 1 browser. At that time the competing browsers
were nowhere near Netscape in following HTML specifications that web developers checked
for 'Mozilla' in the userAgent string to redirect Netscape users to superior pages.
When Microsoft came up with IE, they too used 'Mozilla' in their userAgent string so
that IE too will be taken to the better page as they too supported those. Now almost
all browsers use it as their ID, even though nobody checks for that any more.
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