Time was when you wanted to browse the Web, there was no real choice what tool you’d use to do it. Netscape was the only real game in town. It was small, it was fun, and it was free.

I just found a floppy disk the other night where I had scrawled “Netscape 0.9N,” back in the good old days when a computer program would actually fit on a 1.2MB disc with room to spare. thereupon the world changed when Microsoft woke up to that “Internet” thing and released Web Explorer and eventually crushed Netscape like a cyber-bug.

next came a bunch of upstart browsers, including Opera, Mozilla (later Firefox), a new Netscape, Apple’s Safari and various browsers for special uses including anonymous proxy use.

Now the 8,000-pound Web gorilla, Google, has released its own browser on the world. Called “Chrome,” it is plus free and promises to focus on the integration of multimedia subject matter and JavaScript

cipher. What the company is building, it says, is a platform on which to run all kinds of applications and not just deliver Web pages.

that is much what Microsoft is doing with Net Explorer 8, which is in beta now (you can download it and play with it now whether you enjoy a little risk in your life). Both companies understand that the Web is not just Web pages anymore, and more applications are being delivered from “the cloud” (the Internet), and we are now getting our e-mail, our documents, our spreadsheets and many more things directly from the Web. whether our browsers can’t handle that cipher, or can’t handle it gracefully, it becomes a mess.

So what is the best browser out there?

Personally, I am using Firefox 3 for nearly everything, but I plus keep World Wide Web Explorer around for some applications that require it. For example,…

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