Internet Browsers

There are quite a few free Internet browsing software out there as an alternative to the typical Microsoft Internet Explorer. Some other popular browsers are Mozilla's Firefox, SeaMonkey, Opera, Flock, Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari. I personally like Firefox because of the feature rich add-in options. FireFox's No Script add-in, which blocks potentially harmful spyware, and pop-ups, is very useful for keeping my computer adware-free. I use it when I'm googling research topics and I'm not sure if a web page is safe. For sites that I do trust I use Internet Explorer or one of the alternatives. The FTP plug-in is also handy. I like using Flock for accessing Web 2.0 sites like Facebook and Myspace since it makes logging into those sites easy. Google's Chrome hasn't impressed me greatly. It's not significantly faster than any of the other browsers. For web page designers, it's handy to have a different browsers installed to see how a web page will look. But for the general user, I recommend using Firefox with the No Script plug-in when browsing unknown webpages. Internet Explorer can be used for well-known, safe sites.