Web Browsers

In order to get to the Internet, you'll need a web browser.  For computers with Windows operating system, Internet Explorer comes preinstalled on it.  Below is a list of popular web browsers.
Name (click on visit site) Cost The Good The Bad Rating (10 best)
Mozilla FireFox Free Fastest and small.  Purely a browser.  Has pop-up ad blocker. Some sites are coded only for Internet Explorer.  10
Internet Explorer 6 Free Comes preinstalled on all Windows OS.  Fast. Most popular. Very popular, likely to to be exploited. 9
Netscape 7 Free Fast, the standard, cookie logs, site logs Very large and slow when starting up. Owned by AOL. 9
Opera 7 $39/free w/ ads Built-in pop-up ad blocker. $39 and Ads. 9
Mozilla Free Open source, latest and newest features. Buggy, Netscape beta 8
Oxygen Free IE clone Slow 7
OemBrowser $55 Fits on a floppy. Does not support Java.  6
         
(c) 2003 Wadsworth Internet Service, the City of Wadsworth. 
|Home|Support| Policies|