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Mozilla
by Marcus Garvin

Mozilla Foxfire is a browser used all around the world and is preferred over Internet Explorer, because the speed of Mozilla compared to Internet Explorer. Mozilla has a recovery mode, so if your computer gets unplugged, freezes and you have to shut it down, or your laptop dies, you can start from where you left off.

One of the many sweet features about Mozilla is the master password lock, which prevents people from seeing your saved passwords. It has a quick bookmarking button, so all you have to do is click the star in the URL search bar. It allows to pick the search engine of your choice in the search bar, which is also a good thing. It makes it easy to open a new tab as well. There are a lot of other features that makes Mozilla better than the rest, but those are just a few.

Mozilla Foxfire is a safe and fast web browser. Easy to grasp and easy to use. It is compatible with most programs, and can be used for anything. If you are going to pick a web browser to use, I would say pick Mozilla, because it is fun and many things you can explore on the browser.

Opera

Opera
by Austin Crane
Opera is a browser that is almost like Internet Explorer except it has a lot of cool add-ons. Opera is basically Internet Explorer for England and the U.K. Unlike Google Chrome there is no way that you access any of the passwords on the browser. Which makes it a really secure browser.

Some of the cool add-ons that you can use for Opera are Google Translator, different clocks and some fun games. If you go to open another tab in Opera you get a window with some previews of some of the previous windows you have opened. In this feature you can have an option to have the browser show only four previous windows or up to twenty five windows which could mean you could have all of your favorite windows to choose from.

Although all of this is great the bookmark tab is not as easy to access as it is in Mozilla Firefox. In Mozilla or Google Chrome it is only a only touch button, when in Opera you have to open up the bookmark page and then save it into your bookmarks. Opera has its ups and down but it is a pretty good browser to use and could come in handy someday.

Apple Safari

Safari is a browser made by Apple. Safari is the iPads, the iTouches, and the Macs primary browser but can be downloaded to a Windows PC. Safari is like Google Chrome, but has more features. Safari is also faster. Loading Youtube was 9 seconds faster on Safari than Chrome.


A cool feature in Apple’s Safari is the ability to make drop down folders in the bookmark bar. Then you can add your websites to whichever list you want to add them to. Another cool feature on Apple’s Safari is the spellchecker just like the one on Microsoft Word. A good thing about Safari is the screenroom. If no tabs are being used, the tab bar collapses.



The downside about Apple Safari is the inability to save passwords. You have to type them in manually. Like all the other browsers, you can add add-on to the browser. Apple has many browser add-ons from Twitter to eBay (http://extensions.apple.com/.) They are easily accessed on the home page of safari. Safari is a fast, great browser for pretty much anyone who uses the Internet. Click here to download Safari.
By: Jeff Koester

Google Chrome Review

Google Chrome
by Leslie Raffelson

I have been a fan of Google Chrome for sometime now. My favorite feature of Chrome has been the maximum amount of screen ‘real estate’ I have when I am browsing the internet. In Internet Explorer, it seems like the top is always cluttered with navigation and bookmark bars. Google Chromes tabs are nice and neat and the search bar is all included in your URL bar.

Google Chrome extensions are options that add features and functions to your browser. One add on that you might consider is a button for the Google Bookmark feature. https://www.google.com/bookmarks/l is a service Google offers for sharing and storing bookmarks online. Ever been at home and wanted the bookmarks you had on your work computer? Ever been in the computer lab and wanted to save a bookmark and use it later for homework? This is a resource for just those situations.

Another extension that is a nice feature for those that have Blogger accounts is the blogger button that allows quick postings. I could see this being a nice feature for students who are using blogs for their journals. You could read the newspaper sports section and then click on blog and create a nice quick blog post about your thoughts on it.
https://chrome.google.com/extensions is the link for Google Extensions search feature.