We all know that today’s search engines are less than perfect. For this reason, some Web surfers rely on downloadable search utilities (sometimes called search managers) that serve as add-ons to your browser to help you better search the Web. These utilities can provide vital stats about a particular site as you [...]

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I couldn’t put it off any longer. I had to upgrade my browser from Netscape Navigator 3.01 to the newly-free Netscape Communicator. I do write about this stuff, after all, so it seems only right that I should be a technological guinea pig. Anticipating a molasses-slow system and hourly crashes, I troopered [...]

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When Netscape and Microsoft released the 4.0 versions of their popular Internet browsers, users balked at all of the superfluous features that made downloading the new browsers a hefty proposition.

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So you’ve downloaded the beta of the latest (and indisputably greatest) incarnation of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. What do you do now? With all of the new groupware-esque features, the new “browsers” can seem a bit overwhelming.

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Microsoft has released the gold-code version of Internet Explorer 4.0, which promises to be less buggy (let’s hope) and full of new groupware-esque features that go beyond traditional browsing.

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During the next few months, you can expect to hear a lot about Gecko, Netscape’s latest browser technology. No, this isn’t Communicator 5.0, though the soon-to-be-released Communicator 5.0 will utilize Gecko technology.

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