Browser Wars By: Jesse Arredondo http://www.zeta.net/industry-news/browser-wars.html

What Browser Do You Use? There are many options available to users The competition: Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome Safari Opera

About Internet Explorer IE has been bundled with Windows Operating Systems since 1995 95% of users using IE in 2003 Remember Netscape? I don’t either. Current version: Internet Explorer 9

Rise of Firefox Released in November 2004 Important features of Firefox Popularized tabbed browsing Integrated search box Open source software; users can freely create add-ons or “extensions” Current version: Firefox 4

What happened to IE? IE7 released in October 2006 5 years passed before a new version of IE was released with IE6 released in August 2001 Did not provide an increase in market share IE7 provided little innovation Many of the features included were already present in early versions of Firefox Lack of standard compliancy; fails Acid2 test Not open source

Acid2 Test IE7 Acid2 Test Result: What it should look like:

Statistics from W3schools.com Percentage of users as of April 2011: Internet Explorer – 24.3% Firefox – 42.9% Chrome – 25.6% Safari – 4.1% Opera – 2.6%

Browser of Choice Choose the one you are most comfortable with Give them all a shot! Play with all of the features See what you can and can’t do with certain browsers I personally use Chrome and Firefox