Browsers

Web browsers are the software programs that enable you to use the Internet. The browsers I know the best are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, AOL, Opera, and Netscape. I’m most familiar with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and AOL. I've heard that Netscape may cause some problems though.
Explorer is probably the most standard web browser, and is part of the essential programs you’ll get with a computer operated by Windows. It is also the most popular of the browsers, and works really well. You need Internet Explorer to operate some programs on the web. Mozilla Firefox is also a pretty good browser. My mom prefers it to others. You use to have to pay for AOL, but not anymore. I like the voice that says, “You’ve got mail!” When you have mail on AOL.
Each of these share similar features. Explorer and Firefox both have the tab feature, where you can have several sites available at the same time in the same window connected to tabs. You can make and organize bookmarks, go forward and backward in pages, change font size, set up various tool bars such as Google or Yahoo, make a homepage which will be the first page you come to when you sign on, view a history of pages you’ve visited, and refresh the page you’re on if it gets stuck. You can have more than one browser window up at the same time if you’d like. To go to a website you can type the URL in the web address box at the top of the screen.
My favorite browser is, of course, Internet Explorer, and I rarely use anything else. But it’s not the only good one. You can test the different types out yourself to find your own favorite.