December 13, 2009

What is a Browser?

Choosing a web browser, Pandia (Dec 3)

Firstly, what is a browser? It's the software on your computer that you use to navigate the web - visit sites, use tools, look at videos, view documents. But many people don't know this. And if they don't know this, they won't know that there are different browsers with different capabilities.

Choices are Internet Explorer, which will be loaded on every Windows machine, Safari, which will be on the new Mac, Firefox, Chrome and Opera.
Why would you pick one over the other? Pandia points to speed, security, some special functions - depends on your needs, and gives a thumbnail description of each of them.

Posted by Gwen at December 13, 2009 06:27 PM