Kerry ChengComputer Applications I

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Firefox 3 is the most popular web browser because•Better pop-up blocker than Internet Explorer•Download manager•More secure•More space for content of the website•Faster

Internet Explorer 7 is the second most popular web browser•Tabbed browsing•Quick Tabs•Tab Groups•Streamlined interface•Advanced printing•Instant Search box•Favorites Center•RSS feeds•Page zoom

Safari 4 is Apple’s web browser•Top sites•Cover flow•Full history search•Tabs on top

Add-ons are installable enhancements to the Mozilla Foundation's projects that allow the user to add or augment application features, use themes to his or her liking, and handle new types of content.•Mozilla Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client.•Mozilla Sunbird is a free, open source, cross-platform calendar application.•SeaMonkey is a free, open source, and cross-platform Internet suite.•ChatZilla is a full-fledged Internet Relay Chat client that works inside Firefox.

A plug-in consists of a computer program that interacts with a host application to provide a certain, usually very specific, function "on demand".•Rockbox, a firmware for digital audio players, can use plug-ins, for example: play games, use the text editor•Email clients use plug-ins to decrypt and encrypt email (Pretty Good Privacy) or to send oversized email attachments (Globalscape Mail Express)•Graphics software use plug-ins to support file formats and process images (Adobe Photoshop)•Media players use plug-ins to support file formats and apply filters (foobar2000, GStreamer, Quintessential, VST, Winamp, XMMS)

Adobe Flash Player is software for creating and viewing animations and movies using computer programs such as a web browse.

Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video playback that characterizes rich Internet applications.

WorldWideWeb is the first web browser, created by Tim-Berners Lee in 1991.