Every now and then, I hear my friends tell me they use internet explorer. Yes. I'm serious. Internet explorer.
Why the sarcastic tone?
Because hell, the people who still use internet explorer as their primary browsers are either idiots or are people who don't know WHAT a browser even is.
So, let's start at the basics shall we?
First off when I say a "browser", you may not understand it but people generally refer to "internet" browsers, but it can also be used to talk about your computer explorer (you know, that thing you use to find files in your computer?).
So what i want to talk about are those internet browsers. What do they do? they're an orgnised interface that allows you to "surf" (or browse, hence the name) internet.
Beware, do not mix up browser and search engine. A search engine (google, bing, yahoo search) is a tool that will allow you to search for keywords in the digital universe that is the Internet. A browser WILL use a search engine for researches.
So, the most popular browsers are:
Internet explorer Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Safari
You've probably already heard of all those bigshots before and in this article, I will try to help you to tell which one is best.
I will start by excluding Safari because I don't consider it being a "rival" to the other three. If you have a Mac, you'll just stay with safari because it was made for Mac. Whereas the others were optimised for PC.
Note that these all exist on mobile phones too. Don't even bother using them as they are all useless on that front. (once again safari excluded since it is the one on apple products).
So, let's start!
As I've already told you before. Internet explorer is... bad (and that's to not use harmful words).
The truth is, microsoft actually left out the browser opportunities while Chrome and Mozilla kept updating the tools to create awesome browsers. They both had innovative ideas, they even put in some humor. During this time, Internet explorer stayed on the same level without a single upgrade.
After that Microsoft finally noticed there was some potential in browsers so basically ripped off all the innovations (google) Chrome and (mozilla) Firefox had made and claimed them as it's own.
The thing is, even by "stealing" google and mozilla's best parts, Internet explorer still hasn't attained anything near that level.
This can be seen in every aspect. Today, websites ar first tuned for mzilla nd chrome and then for internet explorer, which leads to some pages actually not working on Internet explorer or heavily bugged.
Then microsoft will try in every aspect to force you to use bing as a default search engine (even though it's the crappiest one out there), there are countless barson your internet explorer interface, it's full of utterly useless things. A lot of functionnalities that are present on Chrome and mozilla aren't usable on internet explorer.
Internet explorer is
slower than Chrome and Firefox (note that chrome is very slightly faster than Firefox) the interface is plain ugly and it just doesn't fit right in a computer's fonctionnalities whereas Firefox and Chrome both do the maximum for their browsers to be perfect.
You can also note that Chrome has another functionnality that is the user interface that lets you sync pretty much everything on different computers with your google account (if you use gmail for example).
In my opinion, the real rivals here would be Chrome and Firefox, as they are both fully and constantly updated and come with enough functionnalities and options for a lifetime.
If I were to choose a browser between the two, I'd say Chrome is the best for me, but, if you are new to computers and don't like things a bit complicated and prefer a browser that explains everything to you then consider downloading Mozilla.
Anyways, know that it is
always best to have two different browsers on your computer so that in case there is a compatibility issue or a bug, you can easily go on the other one.
