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Web Browsers
(A
browser is software that accesses and displays pages and files on the
web)
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Your Windows PC comes with
Microsoft's Internet Explorer as its default browser.
Your Mac comes with Apple's
Safari as its default browser.
Did you know you don't have
to use your computer' default browser? In fact, you can have
multiple browsers on your PC or Mac, and you can use them at the same
time.
As an example, in Windows, I
have 4 browsers, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and
Safari. On my Mac, I have 2 browsers, Safari and Firefox.
Why so many
browsers? For security and to test things (web pages).
Should you have another
browser other than the default one that came on your
computer? Yes!
If you have Windows,
Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the worst thing you can use to surf
the web. Almost all viruses and spyware are written to
exploit Internet Explorer's flaws (scripts). 99% of the
websites you visit will work fine on these "other" browsers.
So download and use another
browser!
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