Introduction
Computer and internet both bring lots of benefit to every human . Some using them to work , some for entertainment , some for researching and lots more . Every internet activity has to progress through either Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer . These two browser software play a very important role and the bridge to link between the computer and the internet world .
After some research , there are lots of ways to differential them including the speed of loading and security system when downloading file . The area of the language that they can cover also a main point of choosing either one of them .
Introduction of Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser created by the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by the Mozilla Corporation . According to Net Application , in July of 2010 , Mozilla Firefox was the second most widely user browser , with 22.91% of worldwide usage share of web browsers . Other sources put Firefox's usage share between 20% and 32% .
Mozilla Firefox uses the Gecko Layout Engine to display web pages , which implements most current web standards in addition to several features which are intended to anticipate likely additions to the standards .
The latest Firefox features include tabbed browsing , spell checking , incremental find , live bookmarking , a download manager , private browsing , location-aware browsing (also known as " geolocation ") based exclusively on a Google service and an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most localizations . Functions can be added through extensions , created by third-party developers , of which there is a wide selection , a feature that has attracted many of Firefox's users .
Firefox runs on various versions of GNU / Linux , Mac OS X , Microsoft Windows and many other Unix-like operating systems . Its current stable release is version 3.6.8 , released on July 23 , 2010[update] . Firefox's source code is free software , released under a tri-license GNU GPL / GNU LGPL / MPL .
History of Mozilla Firefox
The Mozilla Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project by Dave Hyatt , Joe Hewitt and Blake Ross . They believed the commercial requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser . To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat , they created a stand-alone browser , with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite . On April 3 , 2003 , the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird .
The Firefox project has undergone several name changes . Originally titled Phoenix , it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix Technologies . The replacement name , Firebird , provoked an intense response from the Firebird free database software project . In response , the Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the name Mozilla Firebird to avoid confusion with the database software. Continuing pressure from the database server's development community forced another change ; on February 9 , 2004 , Mozilla Firebird became Mozilla Firefox , often referred to as simply as Firefox . Mozilla prefers that Firefox be abbreviated as Fx or fx, though it is often abbreviated as FF . The Firefox project went through many versions before 1.0 was released on November 9 , 2004 . After a series of stability and security fixes , the Mozilla Foundation released its first major update, Firefox version 1.5 , on November 29 , 2005 . Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.12 is the final version officially supported under Windows 95 .
Introduction of Internet Explorer
Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer ; commonly abbreviated to IE) , is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995 . It has been the most widely used web browser since 1999 , attaining a peak of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003 with IE5 and IE6 .
Since its peak of popularity, Internet Explorer's usage share declined in the face of renewed competition from other web browsers to 55% , and is slowly trending downward . Microsoft spent over $100 million per year on Internet Explorer in the late 1990s , with over 1000 people working on it by 1999 .
The latest release is Internet Explorer 8 , which is available as a free update for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later , Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or later , Windows Vista , and Windows Server 2008 , and is included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 . Internet Explorer was originally planned to be omitted from Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in Europe but Microsoft later dropped the plans , and instead included a browser ballot screen with the products , allowing users to select a different web browser if they wish . Versions of Internet Explorer for other operating systems have also been produced, including Internet Explorer Mobile (Windows CE and Windows Mobile) , Internet Explorer for Mac (discontinued) , and Internet Explorer for UNIX (Solaris and HP-UX) .
History of Internet Explorer
The Internet Explorer project was started in the summer of 1994 by Thomas Reardon , leveraging source code from Spyglass , Inc . Mosaic , an early commercial web browser with formal ties to the pioneering NCSA Mosaic browser. In late 1994, Microsoft licensed Spyglass Mosaic for a quarterly fee plus a percentage of Microsoft's non-Windows revenues for the software . Although bearing a name similar to NCSA Mosaic , Spyglass Mosaic had used the NCSA Mosaic source code sparingly .
