1. Browser Wars By: Jesse Arredondo

2. What Browser Do You Use? There are many options available to users
The competition:
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Chrome
Safari
Opera

3. About Internet Explorer
IE has been bundled with Windows Operating Systems since 1995
95% of users using IE in 2003
Remember Netscape? I don’t either.
Current version: Internet Explorer 9

4. Rise of Firefox Released in November 2004
Important features of Firefox
Popularized tabbed browsing
Integrated search box
Open source software; users can freely create add-ons or “extensions”
Current version: Firefox 4

5. What happened to IE? IE7 released in October 2006
5 years passed before a new version of IE was released with IE6 released in August 2001
Did not provide an increase in market share
IE7 provided little innovation
Many of the features included were already present in early versions of Firefox
Lack of standard compliancy; fails Acid2 test
Not open source

6. Acid2 Test
IE7 Acid2 Test Result:
What it should look like:

7. Statistics from W3schools.com
Percentage of users as of April 2011:
Internet Explorer – 24.3%
Firefox – 42.9%
Chrome – 25.6%
Safari – 4.1%
Opera – 2.6%

8. Browser of Choice Choose the one you are most comfortable with
Give them all a shot!
Play with all of the features
See what you can and can’t do with certain browsers
I personally use Chrome and Firefox