What to know About Browsers

The browser

Avant Browser
tabbed browser

Avant Browser is a multi-window (tabbed) browser based on the Internet Explorer core. It allows you to browse multiple Web sites simultaneously, block popup windows, block Flash advertising, and offers additional mouse functions for faster navigation. Additional features include an integrated privacy cleaner that helps to remove surfing tracks, a built-in Yahoo/Google search, RSS/ATOM Reader, Popup blocking and more. Avant Browser also provides options to easily block downloads of pictures, videos, Flash, sounds and ActiveX components to further spped up page loading times. All your IE settings and Favorites are available from within Avant Browser. (Click here to download.)

Maxthon
IE based web browser with extras

Rated as Excellent, Maxthon is an Internet Explorer based web browser that adds a lot of new features as well as a fresh new look to your standard Internet Explorer browser interface. Among the added features are a tabbed interface that allows you to quickly switch between multiple web pages and create groups of pages that you can launch with a single click. In addition, it offers several privacy features like cookie and history cleanup as well as an option to delete the typed address bar URLs (either all or only selected). There are many other features, most of them small, but very handy. For example, it offers a RSS sidebar, supports URL aliases and keyboard shortcuts, quick proxy switching, auto-scrolling, network speed display as well as content filtering and a popup window killer. Maxthon supports plug-ins (some come included). (Click here to download.)

Acoo Browser
IE browser interface

Acoo Browser is multi-tabbed browser interface for Internet Explorer, that also supports customizable ad filtering and popup blocking, URL aliases and more. In addition, it allows you to create groups of Favorites that can be launched simultaneously, as well as support for mouse gestures. Other than that, the interface and functionality is very similar to the standard IE features, and all IE functionality is available from within Acoo Browser. (Click here to download.)

Just for the Fun of It...

A little trivia for you:

• The very first web browser was developed by Tim Berners-Lee while working at a European center for physics research called CERN.
• The first browser that gained popularity was called Mosaic and was developed by Marc Andreessen.
• One of the central figures in the Netscape story is again Marc Andreessen where he became Co-Founder of Netscape Communications Corporation.