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Safari as your browser
The world’s fastest browser. Free download for Mac + PC.
Macintosh Requirements
- Any Mac running Security Update 2009-001 and Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 or Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11
- Mac with an Intel processor or a Power PC G5, G4, or G3 processor and built-in FireWire®
- 256MB of RAM
- Top Sites and Cover Flow on Mac OS X Tiger require a Quartz-Extreme compatible video card.
Opera as your browser
Opera is the only browser that comes with everything you need to be productive, safe and speedy online. Learn everything Opera can do for you… Discover Opera!
Firefox as your browser
Can a browser really make the Web better?
Try Firefox and see for yourself
It’s Time to Get Personal
There are literally thousands of totally free ways to customize your Firefox to fit exactly what you like to do online. Check out our other posts to find more add-ons and other means to customize your FireFox browser!
Google chrome as your browser
Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
Search from the address bar
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.
Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.
Private browsing
Open an incognito window when you don’t want to save your browsing history.
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Internet Explorer as your browser
One of the most common explorers used for Windows.
Netscape as your browser
AOL has a long history on the internet, being one of the first companies to really get people online. Throughout its lifetime, it has been involved with a number of high profile acquisitions, perhaps the largest of which was the 1999 acquisition of the Netscape Communications Corporation. Netscape was known to many as the thought leader in web browsing, and had developed a number of complementary pieces of software that allowed for a rich suite of internet tools.
At the time of the acquisition, the Netscape team had begun working on converting their flagship product - the Netscape Communicator web suite - into open source software, under a new name: Mozilla. AOL played a significant role in the launch of the Netscape 6 browser, the first Mozilla-based, Netscape-branded browser that was released in 2000 and continued to solely fund the development and marketing efforts of Netscape-branded browsers. In 2003, an independent foundation was created to support the continued development of the open source web suite. AOL was a major source of support for the Mozilla Foundation and the company continued to develop versions of the Netscape browser based on the work of the foundation.
While internal groups within AOL have invested a great deal of time and energy in attempting to revive Netscape Navigator, these efforts have not been successful in gaining market share from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Recently, support for the Netscape browser has been limited to a handful of engineers tasked with creating a skinned version of Firefox with a few extensions.
AOL’s focus on transitioning to an ad-supported web business leaves little room for the size of investment needed to get the Netscape browser to a point many of its fans expect it to be. Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox.