Web browsers are the software tools we all use most often to perform tasks online. There are a few different browser that make up the entire market share and we all have our favorite.
Picking a web browser for regular use is really no different than picking any software. You want to find a program that is fast and reliable and has features that make the things you do often easy and efficient.
A Little History
| 1991 | World Wide Web (browser) is released as part of the Web development by Tim Berners-Lee. |
| 1993 | Mosaic, the first "popular" graphical browser is released. |
| 1994 | Netscape is formed by Marc Andreesen, a developer for Mosaic. Netscape is code-named Mozilla for Mosaic killer (Mosaic/Godzilla) and becomes the first commercial web browser. AOL starts offering subscribers access to the public Web. |
| 1995 | Internet Explorer is released as part of Windows 95. This starts the first big browser war. |
| 1996 | Opera, a Norwegian company, is released. |
| 1997 | AOL HAS 9 million subscribers. |
| 1998 | Mozilla, an off-shoot project/company of Netscape, is formed. Netscape source code is released as open-source. |
| 2000 | AOL has 23 million subscribers. |
| 2002 | IE has 95% of browser market share and the first browser war ends. |
| 2003 | Apple Safari is released and uses a rendering engine called WebKit, popular with mobile devices. |
| 2004 | Firefox, which is based off of the Mozilla/Netscape open-source code is released. |
| 2006 | IE 7 is released five years after IE 6 and copies many features from the main competition (Firefox). |
| 2008 | Google Chrome is released and browser war intensifies. |
| 2010 | Rockmelt, a social media browser is funded by Netscape's Marc Andreesen and based off Google's open-source project, Chromium. |
