Browser+Wars

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"Browser wars" refers to the competition for online dominance. The browser wars occurred in two periods beginning with the competition between Microsoft's Internet Explorer and its rival Netscape Navigator, ending with the defeat of Netscape. A second browser war was revived in 2003 with Microsoft's Internet Explorer against several other browsers such as Mozilla FireFox, Safari, Opera, and in 2008 Google Chrome. -Frank Thai

**Background**:
__The First Browser War__ In the early '90s, the World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee. He created the first web browser, named it Nexus to avoid confusion, and released it in 1991. At the end on 1992, many more browsers appeared. The increase in the numbers of browsers resulted in a choice between browsers and started the first competition. In 1993 even more browsers were released, most notable among them Mosaic, which quickly became the most popular. In 1994, Mosaic faced many competitors, the most significant of all Netscape Navigator. Netscape Navigator improved Mosaic's reliability and its ability to be used and by 1995 it emerged as the dominant browser. Although it remained the dominant browser, more competitors arose including: Omniweb, Webrouser, and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. -Frank Thai

__The Second Browser War__ After the defeat of Netscape by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Netscape released its browser source code (Code written by a programmer in a high-level language and readable by people but not computers. Source code must be converted to object code or machine language before a computer can read or execute the program). Mozilla rose up as a competitor. The initial browser release by Mozilla was called Phoenix, later changed to Firebird, and what's now known as FireFox. Later work on the browser led to the release of FireFox 1.0 on the 9th of November 2004. -Frank Thai

__The (Soon to be) Third Browser War__ The third browser war is predicted to take place very soon. The war will be fought for the dominance of internet browsers on cell phones and mobile devices. With new inovations such as the well known iPhone, and other cell phones having more advanced internet surfing capabilities. So far, there are only two browsers who can claim that they own any part of this new industry. Mozilla's Firefox and Opera have already made efforts and put out programs for this new venue. Their two programs are very different. Mozilla focuses more on easily maneuvering on the web pages. Opera is more geared to the user because you have an option to load all of your saved bookmarks and preferences from your home browser and home computer. It is needless to say that this battle will heat up soon with new entrants into this war. -David Beckett

Browsers :
__Internet Explorer__ Internet Explorer 7, one of the most widely used browser due to the fact it is pre-installed on all vista/XP computer builds, is one of the "top dogs" of this war. This can be disputed because it is arguably the supreme browser, with build releases like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera, keeping up with them has been difficult for them. And it has been, they’re struggling but they just released Internet Explorer 8, which proves that Microsoft could be top dog again. Its faster, it has tab protection where if one tab crashes the others remain stable, and it gives you features that you always wanted.(Raphael) - Stephen Scanlon

__Mozilla Firefox__ The second competitor, Mozilla Firefox, shows us what can be done with add-ons, with the addition of a fast browser. Many people now use Mozilla Firefox as a great alternative to Internet Explorer due to faster speeds, and the add-ons are geared towards users. If you would prefer to apply weather on your search bar at the top, or a mini radio that streams right from the browser, all you have to do is click the buttons at the top of the toolbars. Also, Mozilla is geared to operate on BOTH Internet Explorer and Safari. This duel ability to work on the two different platforms allow for a very wide fanbase and improved publicity for the company. -Stephen Scanlon & Darien Bouzakis & David Beckett

__Safari__ Another successful browser is Safari. It was created and released by Apple on January 7, 2003. The "Mac" series came preinstalled with only Safari on the OS (operating system). Safari has most of the same features as Mozilla's FireFox. In 2007, Safari 3 was released which would be compatible with Windows XP and Windows Vista. Shortly after its release, Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple Inc.), claimed it to be the fastest browser on Windows in terms of loading websites overall, but it tied with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla's FireFox when compared with loading cache. Through the years of Safari's existence, it is still best-known as the default browser for Apple. -Frank Thai

__Google Chrome__ One of the considerably newer browsers is Google Chrome. This browser was released of December 11, 2008 and created a lot of “noise” for Google to make the company even further known throughout the world. When searching for Google Chrome I noticed that the search results totaled to a total of 31,800,000. The makers of this broswer also improved the "awesome bar", or the "Omni-Bar" that was included in Mozilla Firefox helped Google Chrome to be downloaded a total of 8 million times since it was released to the public ( Quittner). It has made a decent surge into the Browser Wars when it sustained a collaboration with Mozilla. -Darien Bouzakis & Brandon West & David Beckett

__Netscape Navigator__ During the long run of Netscape, it finally came to a close in this past year in February of 2008. When Silicon Graphics founder, Jim Clark collaborated with Marc Andreessen to found Mosaic Communicationsto create Netscape in 1994. This browser was in compition with Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the first Browser War (Wilison ). -Darien Bouzakis

__Maxthon__ Maxthon is a browser released in China by a company in Beijing during 2003. The use of the browser spread from China to Europe. As of 2006, an estimated 60 million people use the browser. Its use is starting to spread to the United States but is still widely unknown. -Frank Thai

__Opera__ Opera is a semi-sucessful browser that offers features that cannot be found on any other browsers. Opera was designed in mind to be able to be easily understood and used by people with impairments. Specificaly visual and motor impairments. Also, Opera is now branching into new fields that other browsers are not yet even thinking about. Opera has burst onto the scene of internet browsing on mobile devices such as cell phones. This show of diversity and the variety of add-on's for this browser show for a promising future. -David Beckett

__Tencent Traveler__ Tencent Traveler is a user friendly browsers that allows the user to mix and match their own skins to cover the browser. It is souly a browser made to amuse the user, and keep them around for lightweight browsing activities: unlike others, this browser is not a heavy duty taskmaster with downloads, tabs, etc. It is said to offer multi-threaded high-speed downloads, however users have pleaded otherwise. Nonetheless, this is a safe and easy browser to use, and is more for the new members of web 2.0, and a little too weak for the more experienced users. - Gordon Kender

__The World__ The World is a safe, relatively new browser that has not yet met the public eye. The main goal for this browser is to keep the user on as many tabs a possible without lagging to a great extent (or any at all). The World is one of the first multi-threaded browser to be released. This simply means that because all of the tabs are threaded separately from each other, the browser is less likely to freeze. This is obviously a huge advantage to every user surfing the web, but is most efficient for those who open multiple tabs, normally hosting many downloads at the same time. A few extra goodies that come along with The World are pop-up filters that allow the user to label what they do and don't want, a mute button that instantly silences the entire browser, and custom hotkeys. The World is a slowly evolving super-browser. - Gordon Kender

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