BY: JESSE ARREDONDO

H T T P: / / W W W. Z E T A . N E T / I N D U S T R Y - N E W S / B R O W S E R - W A R S . H T M L

Browser Wars

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 2001Did 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