Web Browsers
First things first. How do we search the internet? We do so using a web browser.
A web browser is a piece of software or application on your computer that allows you to access the internet or world wide web.
There are many different web browsers and we are not going to recommend one or another of those. You are probably used to one of them already and this will more than likely do the job you need, if you use it properly.
Here is a list of browsers, however, if you want to check out any others. Just click on the links to download.
Some Browsers support different operating systems better such as those on Apple Macs or older Microsoft software such as Windows 2000.
Firefox
Google
Chrome
Internet
Explorer
Opera
Safari
Maxthon
Flock
Avant
Browser
Deepnet
Explorer
PhaseOut
For the purposes of this Guide we are going to use Firefox, as it supports an add on called Zotero that is commonly used for Referencing Sofware for academic researchers and which we will discuss later.
Activity:
Try the same search on two different browsers and see what are the differences in the results
Then click below to continue to the next page.
