In the ensuing chaos of the feature-packed browser wars it's allways nice to have a friend.
Freeware Browsers -- The Big Boys:
Netscape is, in our opinion the best browser
overall. It allows for stability, while allowing for many extras
and such. It is also consderably smaller that Internet Explorer
in its full blown form. Netscape allows for the top of the line
features you expect from a browser of such quality. Netscape
allows for HTTP,, WYSIWIG, Gopher, FTP, et cetera. It can come
without the extras (email, composer, newsgroups...) in a stand
alone version too. 5 of 5 rating.
Internet Exploi--excuse me-- Internet Explorer is a
extremely large browser. Internet Explorer is unstable, and/or
annoying at many points durring your browsing expirence. Internet
Explorer, however, dose have good sides to it. It comes with all
the extras, and contrary to what you might have heard, it dose
slightly update the integrated IE 4.0 in Windows98. I have found
Internet Explorer to be slightly faster than Netscape, which
counterballances the instability. 4 of 5 rating.
Neoplanet is not really a browser, but it shure
looks and feels like one. It really uses IE in the background to
load and display the information, but it dose not eat memory
doing this. It merely loads a small portion of IE and uses it.
Neoplanet looks unlike all other browsers; it allows for diffrent
themes to be applied to its "look 'n' feel." I sugesst
you give this one a download. 5 of 5 rating.
The not-so big boys, Shareware Browsers:
Opera, a small and widly unknown browser. It's small, and looks like file manager. It is pretty fast though, along with small. Try it out. 3 of 5 rating.
NCSA Mosaic, this one started it all. Netscape, in fact, used to be called Netscape Mosaic 1.0. This browser is fast, diffrent, and dose everything you expect from a browser. Give a old classic a whirl. 4 of 5 rating. It's freeware, not shareware.
Hot Java, a pretty cool browser. It allows you to move around the tool bars to new places, and it looks really slick. It runs java real fast, and loads at a supprisingly Netscape speed. My only complaint is that it flickers when I scroll down a lot. 4 of 5 rating.
Lynx, a UNIX users closest companion. Available in DOS, WIN32, WIN16, and maybe even MAC formats now. It is very fast, and straight foreward. The major drawback is that it may only view the text. you will not see Evil Java Monkey, nor will you see Bulbous Picture Sac. Overall, I give it a 3 of 5 rating.Freeware.