What GUI Web browsers are available?
The most widely used browser that is downloadable for free is FireFox 3. Google Chrome is another free browser developed my Google that competes with FireFox offering the same and much more services compared to FireFox. Google Chrome and FireFox are updated regularly with new features being added every time. FireFox however has more extensions and add-ons from third-party developers on virtually anything.
For use on a workstation with graphical user interface (GUI), we recommend the firefox browser, or its still-experimental, but reasonably stable, second generation, firefox2. The newer version has the convenient feature that, after a crash, it can restart with all previous windows intact. These browsers are the ones under most active development, with new releases appearing every two to three months. Other GUI browsers include amaya, arena, chimera, grail, hotjava, iexplorer, konqueror, mozilla, netscape, opera, seamonkey, xchimera, and xmosaic. Most of these are no longer actively developed, and the older ones support neither Java nor JavaScript, nor newer features of HTML, such as the style sheets used in this FAQ for colored highlighting, so they are mainly of historical interest. Nevertheless, they still useful for testing portability of Web page formatting. Of these browsers, all but konqueror are available on Sun Solaris SPARC systems. That browser is available in GNU/Linux on AM
