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[WEB BROWSERS] Zarak Khan GOOGLE CHROME: Larry Page and Sergey Brin under the umbrella of Google and it was created in September 1998. Features: Light weight, colorful, peaceful, easily browse facility, contains own task manager, great bookmark facility...And so on..... Google chrome contains its own task manager in that, we can see the options like, memory, cpu, network..Contains information how much memory the website occupies and how much the cpu and network usage can be observe. Because it is new release the add-ons are not available. May be Google provide the add- ons later. at presently not available. Main advantage of this browser is default searching facility. if type something in the link bar...the browser automatically shows corresponding searching results. If you type website address in the link bar if it is available, the browser will find the site and displays. Otherwise it will search related information and displays like Google search engine. Just type in the link bar that's it what we have to do. Another advantage of it is, we can see the most visited web sites in the tab. new Incognito mode is a Google Chrome browsing mode where your subsequent web searches are recorded in your Google Web History. In this case, if you want to make sure your searches are not stored in your Google Account, you'll need to pause your Google Web History tracking. Browsing in incognito mode only keeps Google Chrome from storing information about the websites you've visited. Encoding facility, text zoom are also available in this browser. This is super fast browser. Searching history facility is available in this wonderful chrome. This option is available right up corner. View source, debug java script, java script console are available with chrome at developer option. We can observe the download history and the process in the bottom when downloading something. If the add-ons are released the wonderful browser will occupy the first place. You can find only the back and forward button and refresh button and the address bar along with the above mentioned two control menus in the entire browser. If you want to add in the homepage button, you can do so from the customize option available. 1 E. Commerce. BBA 6 A [WEB BROWSERS] Zarak Khan Drawbacks: Because it is developed in 2008.It is available with beta version as usual. It‘s software requirement is winxp service pack 2.Google developed this product for windows only. For some websites like hub pages…its not supported browser, because many products download software are developed and supported for existing browser like IE, Mozilla, opera and so on. it is also available for vista also. It is not available for Linux users immediately. Another disadvantage of Google chrome is its history search box will fetch all types of data - even text from HTTPS-protected financial sites (dslreports.com and tgdaily.com). Like IE and Mozilla and opera there is no menu bar shows file ,edit, tools and so on rather we can customize in customize Google chrome option. MOZILLA FIREFOX: Mozilla Corporation developed the Mozilla Firefox on November 9th, 2004. Features: Tabbed browsing. Browse faster. Site-specific options. Extension system enhancements (plug-in). Updated browser. Appearance Changeable Skin. Find Toolbar, Software Update, Search enhancements. Accessibility compliance. Session Restore. Download resuming across browser sessions. Better Security. Drawbacks: 2 E. Commerce. BBA 6 A [WEB BROWSERS] Zarak Khan Use more memory than other browsers. Certain websites do not render as expected in Firefox. Mozilla Firefox does not provide an MSI package. Slow startup. INTERNET EXPLORER: Microsoft, August 1995. Features: Speed IE seems to be noticeably faster than old versions, which users will welcome. The actual speed difference may be in milliseconds, but the faster downloading could help Microsoft win back some customers. Updated Content An RSS feed on your favorites bar will indicate to you any updated content on sites that you have listed as favorites. This information shows up as a green icon in the upper right hand corner, which alerts you to this update so that you can access it immediately. Similar Sites IE will suggest to you five similar sites to the ones you are currently viewing. This will enable you to find more information quite easily if the site you are on does not give you enough details. Integration Internet Explorer integrates with other Microsoft applications like Outlook Web Access and can show presence. This is a big plus in company environments where a number of persons are online at the same time. Stability If one window in a tabbed environment crashes, the other tabs do not crash simultaneously, and this is a big plus point. Internet Explorer has been able to open a window with tabs in their 3 E. Commerce. BBA 6 A [WEB BROWSERS] Zarak Khan previous versions as well, but this new ability to contain the crashing of any one site is a new feature. Compatibility IE has become more compliant to web standards than its previous versions. It has a compatibility button which you can press if sites that have lower web standards do not display properly. This then enables the browser to open the site in the more compatible, lower version. Drawbacks: Similar Sites Internet Explorer does indicate to you up to five sites that are similar to the one that you have opened. But, this is restricted to the better known sites which have better page rankings. However, a user is generally already aware of such sites. This additional list can only be of help if the sites listed are some of the more unfamiliar ones that are not so frequently visited. This would broaden the web experience. Memory Requirements IE recommends a minimum of between 64 MB and 512 MB of memory. However, this seems inadequate and is better served with a memory of at least 2 GB. This would mean that home users and small business users may be forced to go in for costly upgrades if they are not to find the performance of IE disappointing. Page Display of Sites Sites that have still not complied with the latest web standards may not display easily or correctly in IE. The compatibility button does not easily open all such sites, and you may be forced to wait for the upgrade of the site itself before you can view it properly. Microsoft Playing Catch Up IE really seems like an effort by Microsoft to catch up with other browsers like Firefox but no real attempt at anything new. So, whether this will help Microsoft retain its market share is something the market has to decide. Heavy to Load Internet Explorer is quite heavy to load, and smaller home users may have to watch their hard drives before they can decide on an upgrade to IE. 4 E. Commerce. BBA 6 A [WEB BROWSERS] Zarak Khan LUNASCAPE: Lunascape Corporation, 2004. Features: Triple engine for optimal performance and best website coverage: Trident Rendering Engine, Gecko Rendering Engine and WebKit Rendering Engine. Mouse Gestures Form Data Saving User Agent Camouflaging Change Proxy Settings Pop-Up Blocker Crash Prevention Floating Sidebar Sidebar Auto-Hiding Toolbar Customization Menu Customization Sub-Menu Customization Search Engine Customization Zoom tool Full Screen Display Capability 5 E. Commerce. BBA 6 A [WEB BROWSERS] Zarak Khan Extremely fast and light weight browsing experience Synchronization of Online Favorites Online Favorites Sharing Automatic Sorting of Favorites Search Bar Search Button Hierarchical Search Engine Search within a Page Word Highlighting Drawbacks: Slow Changing engines No Add blocker No Add ons No Language interface change FLOCK: Flock Inc., April 2005. Features: Good User Interface Support for Photo Sharing sites Blogging Support Flock’s Search Extension support Drawbacks: 6 E. Commerce. BBA 6 A [WEB BROWSERS] Zarak Khan Even with the advent of tabbed browsing, which allows you to keep multiple Web pages open in the same window, Web multitasking, can be a pain. You have to constantly click back and forth among tabs if they contain fast-changing material you check often, like the status of your friends in social-networking services, or updates to news feeds. OMNIWEB: The Omni group, 1995. Features: . Separate window form editing Click the square in the upper right corner of multi line form fields to open it in a separate window. This helps when you wish to add lots of text to an area which is very small and you want to see all of it at once. This feature also allows you to enter tab characters. Workspaces Groups of web browser windows and tabs in them. A user can have multiple workspaces for different web research topics and quickly switch between them with a key shortcut or menu choice. View Links: By clicking on this button in the toolbar, one can quickly view all the links contained in the page. Ad blocking: Omni Web uses a powerful pattern match ad blocking feature to stop images from loading from servers matching the pattern. It is also possible to block images that don't originate from the current server you are browsing and to block images that match common advertisement sizes. 7 E. Commerce. BBA 6 A [WEB BROWSERS] Zarak Khan . Shortcuts allows one to type a key word or phrase to open a certain web site or begin a specific web search. Site preferences Omni Web allows you to specify preferences that apply to specific websites. For example, if you adjust the font size on a given web page, the adjusted font size will be used on all other pages of the same site.