Research on Web Browsers

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Sagar A. Agrawal

Pratik Gandhi Rajwin Patel

Aditya Ganjewar

IIPM Tower, 893/4 Bhandarkar Road, Deccan Gymkhana,Pune - 411004

http://www.iipm.edu

08Fall

I N T E R N A T I O N A L I N S T I T U T E O F P L A N N I N G A N D M A N A G E M E N T

Fall 09

MARKET RESEARCH ON WEBBROWSERS
http://www.iipm.edu/http://www.iipm.edu/


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MARKET RESEARCH ON WEB BROWSERS 2

AcknowledgmentWe heartily thank our Project in-charge, Prof. Abhishek Lingayate (IIPM,

Pune), whose encouragement, guidance and support from the initial to the

final level enabled me to develop an understanding of the subject. We are

grateful for Sirs contribution towards the execution of our project.

Lastly, we offer our regards and blessings to all of those who supported

us in any respect during the completion of the Research.

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT


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INDEXS.r.no.

Topic Page no.

1 Abstract 4

2 Objective of Study 5

3 Executive Summary 6

4 History OF Browsers 7

5 Introduction to theCompanies

9

6 Methodology 17

7 Analysis 23

8 Global Statistics 49

9 Recommendation 53

10 Bibliography 54



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Abstract

We present a case study on the usage and user-experience on Web-

Browsers. This will navigate the anticipation of usage of Browsers on a

regular basis. A browser provides a user interface for displaying and

selecting items from a list of data or from hierarchically organized lists of

data such as directory paths. With the constant addition of new and

pertinent information coming online every second it is very easy to go

information overload. The true key is to able to identify the important

information and how that information relates to information resources

through information visualization that will aid you in the creation of new

intelligence and research data using online Web-Browsers.

Following are the notifications of all the list of the browsers and its

cascaded version of getting into the research of Web-Browsers.



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Objective of Study

The Internet revolution gave a rise for the ease of access to free

information. To access this information there should be a medium; a

web browser acts as a medium. A web browser is the most integral

part of computer system and when we talk about computer system

then we refer it to INTERNET. Technically, a Web browser is

a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing

information resources on the World Wide Web. An information

resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and

may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of

content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily

navigate their browsers to related resources.

Although browsers are primarily intended to access the World Wide

Web, they can also be used to access information provided by Web

servers in private networks or files in file systems.

In this report we will be analyzing the concept of a

web browser in a very brief format.

There are many browsers in the world and are

categorized in many types. We have taken in

consideration four major web browsers which are



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Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and

Apple Safari. These browsers will be analyzed with

respect to different parameters based on their

compositions.



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Executive summary

The project merges the techniques of networked information to make

an easy but global information system. The project represents any

information accessible over the network as a part of a seamless

hypertext information space which is a WEB BROWSER.

This report on a web browser will determine the comparison and

usage share of web browser in percentage of users and visitors.



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HISTORY OF BROWSERS

The history of the web browser dates back in to the late 1980s, when a

variety of technologies laid the foundation for the first web

browser, World Wide Web, by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. That browser

brought together a variety of existing and new software and hardware

technologies. Dozens of innovative web browsers have been developed

by various people and teams over the years.

The first widely used web browser was NCSA Mosaic. The Mosaic

programming team then developed the first commercial web browser

called Netscape Navigator, later renamed Communicator, then renamed

back to just Netscape. The Netscape browser led in user share until

Microsoft Internet Explorer took the lead in 1999 due to its distribution

advantage. A free open source software version of Netscape was then

developed called Mozilla, which was the internal name for the old

Netscape browser, and released in 2002. Mozilla has since gained in

market share, particularly on non-Windows platforms, largely due to its

open source foundation, and in 2004 was released in the quickly popular

FireFox version.



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Introduction to theCompanies

1. Internet Explorer:

Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer;

abbreviated to MSIE or, more commonly, IE), is a series

of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part

of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995. It

has been the most widely used web browser since 1999, attaining a peak

of about 95% usage share during 2002 and 2003 with IE5 and IE6.

The latest release is Internet Explorer 8, which is available as a free



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update for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Server

2003 with Service Pack 1 or later, Windows Vista, and Windows Server

2008, and is included with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Internet Explorer was originally going to be omitted from Windows 7 and

Windows Server 2008 R2 in Europe, but Microsoft later dropped the

plans, and instead included a browser ballot screen with the products,

allowing users to select a different web browser if they wish.

Features:

The latest of the Browser IE has today is IE 8, which was released on

March 19th, 2009. The main features include:

Enhancement in the Security

Ease of Use

Improvements in RSS, CSS and AJAX support.



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2. Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from

the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. The

Firefox project began as an experimental branch of the Mozilla project

by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross. They believed the commercial



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requirements of Netscape's sponsorship and developer-driven feature

creep compromised the utility of the Mozilla browser. To combat what

they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a stand-alone

browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite. On April

3, 2003, the Mozilla Organization announced that they planned to change

their focus from the Mozilla Suite to Firefox and Thunderbird.

The Firefox project has undergone several name changes. Originally

titledPhoenix, it was renamed because of trademark issues with Phoenix

Technologies. The replacement name,Firebird, provoked an intense

response from the Firebird free database software project. In response, the

Mozilla Foundation stated that the browser should always bear the

name Mozilla Firebirdto avoid confusion with the database software.

Continuing pressure from the database server's development community

forced another change; on February 9, 2004, Mozilla Firebird

became Mozilla Firefox, often referred to as simplyFirefox. Mozilla

prefers that Firefox be abbreviated asFx orfx,though it is often

abbreviated asFF.

The Firefox project went through many versions before 1.0 was released

on November 9, 2004. After a series of stability and security fixes, the

Mozilla Foundation released its first major update, Firefox version 1.5, on

November 29, 2005.

Features:

Written in C++, XUL, JavaScript, CSS.

Real-time add on facilities from THIRD-party



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Live-Bookmarking

3. Apple Safari

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. First released as

a public beta on 7 January 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating

system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X

v10.3 "Panther". Apple has also made Safari the native browser for

the iPhone OS. A version of Safari for the Microsoft Windows operating



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system first released on June 11, 2007 supports Windows XP, Windows

Vista, and Windows 7.

Until 1997, Apple Macintosh computers had shipped with Netscape Navigator and Cyberdog only. Internet Explorer for Mac was

subsequently included with Mac OS 8.1 onwards as the default web

browser, as part of the five year agreement between Apple and Microsoft.

However, Netscape Navigator continued to be included. Microsoft

released three major versions of Internet Explorer for Mac that were

bundled with Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. Microsoft subsequently released

a Mac OS X edition of Internet Explorer 5, which was included as the

default browser in all Mac OS X releases from Mac OS X DP4 until Mac

OS X v10.2.

On January 7, 2003, Steve Jobs announced that Apple had developed

their own web browser based on KHTML rendering engine, called Safari.

They released the first beta version that day and a number of official andunofficial beta versions followed, until version 1.0 was released on June

23, 2003. Available as a separate download initially, it was included with

the Mac OS X v10.3 release on October 24, 2003, as the default browser,

with Internet Explorer for Mac included only as an alternative browser.

Since the release of Mac OS X v10.4 on April 29, 2005, Safari is the only

web browser included with the operating system.

Features:

Based completely on JavaScript.

Tabbed-Browsing



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Integration with iPhoto photo management

Support for Transport Layer Security protocol

4. Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser released by Google which uses

the WebKit layout engine and application framework. It was first released

as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on 2 September 2008, and the

public stable release was on 11 December 2008. The name is derived

from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers.As of 1 November 2009, Chrome was the fourth most widely used



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browser, with 3.6% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.

Development versions of Chrome for Linux and Mac OS X were

released in June 2009.

Google released the entire source code of Chrome, including its bespoke V8 JavaScript engine as an open source project

entitled Chromium, in 2008. This move enabled third-party developers to

study the underlying source code and potentially port the browser to

the Linux and Mac OS X platforms. A Google spokesperson also

expressed hope that other browsers would adopt V8 to help web

applications. The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released

under the permissive BSD license, which allows portions to be

incorporated into both open source and proprietary software

programs. Other portions of the source code are subject to a variety of

open-source licenses. Chromium implements the same feature set as

Chrome, but without Google branding and automatic updates, and it has a

slightly different logo.

Features:

Safe Browsing API (Application Programming Interface)

V8 JavaScript generates more speed

Themes

Usage Tracking



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MethodologyBackground:

Duration of Research & Survey -- October 5th December 5th

Data Collection Time 10 Days

Data Allocation Time 5 Days

Respondents(On the Field) 50 People (Students, Employees,

Teachers)

Respondents (Online) 134 visits came from 25

countries/territories

Source: Google Analytics



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1. India 42

2. United States 34

3. Vietnam 15

4. United Kingdom 6

5. Canada 4

6. Russia 4

7. Poland 4

8. (not set) 3

9. South Korea 2

10. Philippines 2

11. Austria 2

12. Malaysia 2

13. Germany 2

14. Portugal 1

15. Bangladesh 1

16. Croatia 1

17. Indonesia 1

18. Japan 1

19. Ghana 1

20. Mexico 1

21. Netherlands 1

22. Lithuania 1

23. South Africa 1

24. Argentina 1

25. Tanzania 1

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We have chosen to do two rounds of interviews for our methodology to

gather informative user requirements and one questionnaire. These

interviews were done mainly in person to ensure a deeper understanding

of the user needs and wants. The problems of users can therefore be

expressed as the interviewee feels more familiar to express their ideas,

concerns and frustrations. In the interim we conducted these interviews in

terms of 'Questionnaire' which was physically taken by us from 50

people.

Before conducting the actual interviews, firstly questions developed must

be short enough to be understandable and descriptive enough to make

sense. The limited answer question helps in creating quantitative data to

portray the demographic of the users. There are more open questions

asked in the end, as interviewee are comfortable with answering and give

elaborate responses.

Specific things they like and dislike about current functions: These

qualitative results will benefit the brainstorming process greatly, tackling

targeted user wants and needs, which help reinforce what to watch out forin designing.

Even if the questions were prepared, there was a lot of refinement and

redundant data. There were problems where answers to questions were

required to be guessed beforehand for specifying type of conclusions we

want to make.

The locations of the interview are:



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One was done at

Laptech Computers, Kothrud, Pune

And second interview was done at

House of Laptops, Tilak Road, Pune.

Talking about submitting the questionnaire some are done over the

Internet via blogging where the user is in their own working space.

One was done over at two multiplexes of Pune, E-Square and INOX.

Another one was conducted in the college amongst friends, seniors and

faculty members at IIPM, Pune.

In the creation of an application, it is important to have a targeted user

groups. In this case targeting

Major usage groups of the Internet usages, the two groups that popped up

are:

Students

Teachers, Workers in the showroom

These users are from a range of age groups with different experiences of

using browsers or the Browser history. This will reinforce the concept

design is catered to not just very niche users.

Specifically tertiary students are chosen (age 18-35), due to the nature oftheir studies, students are required to develop a research papers, with

correct references, that there is a high chance students forgets to keep

track of text that is required to be sourced.

Teachers, Workers in the showroom on the other hand requires to use the

computer for work all day long, the amount of Internet usage and work

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SAMPLE QUESTIONNAIREFOR MARKET RESEARCH

Thank you for taking the time to fill in this questionnaire, you will remain anonymous. Weneed a sample of an audience to use as an example for our Research Project at College

1) How often you use your Computer?

Less then 30 Minutes 1 hour 2 Hours 3 Hours More than 3 Hours

2)What do you use your computer for?

Internet Work Personal Learning Gaming

Other, Please Specify __________

3) What are the 3 most common topics (relevant to IT) of conversation amongstyour friends?

a) ___________b) ___________

c) ___________

4) How many hours a day would you spend on internet?


5) Which amongst these Web Browsers you are aware of?

Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Safari Other, Please Specify ____________

6) Which web browser do you use as your default web browser?




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7) Which web Browser do you use for your Mobile Phone?

Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome

Safari Other, Please Specify ____________

8) In last 6 months, was your Computer got affected with any virus? If yes orno, which web Browser were using?

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9) Which web Browser supports your creativity?


10) Which web Browser advertisement do you see very often?

Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Safari

Other, Please Specify ____________

11) Which products are stable?


12) Which web browser you think has better Session Management?


13) How would you describe the services of Internet Explorer?

Efficient Inefficient

Fast Slow

Reliable Unreliable



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14) How would you describe the services of Safari?


Fast Slow

Reliable Unreliable

15) How would you describe the services of Google Chrome?


Fast Slow

Reliable Unreliable

16) How would you describe the services of Mozilla Firefox?


Fast Slow

Reliable Unreliable

17) Do you have Training Sessions from the respective web Browsers you haveinstalled?

Yes No

18) Rate your Brand on a Scale of 1 to 5

(1=poor 2=average 3=good 4=very good 5= excellent)


Brand IE Firefox Safari Chrome

Performance ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

Stability ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

Compatibility ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

User-friendliness ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

MemoryManagement

( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

Customer support ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )


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19) Which one would you choose?



20) How important is Web browser initial load speed? Very Important Less Important Not Important

21) Would you try new web products after taking this survey? Yes Probably

Maybe Probably Not No

Name: ___________________________________________

Age Group: 15- 25 25-35 35+

Gender: Male Female



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AnalysisResults from the interviews are interesting as they are very informative

and qualitative, results differs greatly as a student, Generation next

perspective where we know everything about computers and Internet. In

our surprise there were users that have never heard of browser history,

especially when some of the employees were in generation next.

Whilst filling the questionnaire most of the students used Firefox and

many of which who were in the age after 25 used Internet Explorer.

In searching for information, users mainly Google for white-collar

workers and students often make bookmarks of the link they know they

would visit back. Users value the search of Google more than anything.

Both users groups are wants efficiency in their searches, they every

recommended awesome bar that have an auto recognition of tags/titles,

and URLs previously visited or typed.

In evaluating the interviews, it can be said privacy wouldnt be much of a

concern for students, as well as in developing concepts of browser history

the design does not need to take into account of adding security function

like login, since most users (employees and teachers) would have cleared

it regularly. Adding a login to browser history just adds unnecessary timerequired to login, and it will probably be an annoying function if

implemented into designs.

Need to develop a higher search functions to tackle user groups

preference of Googles search function over histories. This might be

because users are relatively very happy with Googles searching

functions, in this case its not just by tags and recent weeks, users can

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Users are very happy with sticking to the traditional Internet Explorer,

when new browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari popped up.

They also did mention Opera Browser for their phone as the other option

in our questionnaire. Safari was seen as very user friendly and easy to use

browser and it seemed as though majority of the people like to stick with

what they are familiar with. (Many applicants dont know what browser

history is, they just use Google to find past websites.) And a sense of

unwilling to change Im happy with what I got and adapt new

applications. Continuing on from above many people preferred

applications that resemble existing design, its the familiarity of the

application that makes it friendly and easy to use. And its what makes

users willing to try and learn to use this application.

With the amount of applicants that stated they can remember a website by

the visual cue and elements, it seemed only normal to try implementing a

high visual aspect design into concept ideas.

From the information gathered, efficiency and simple is what users want.

Users just want to quickly and easily find the information that theyre

after. Seen from users may not know the exact dates, and doesnt want to

load each link that they think might be the website they want. Users seem

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Questionnaire Analysis: - per questionbasis

Gender: Male Female

Male Female

41 9

Age Group: 15- 25 25-35 35+

15-25 43

25- 25 6

35+ 1



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1) How often you use your Computer?

Less then 30 Minutes 1 hour 2 Hours 3 Hours

More than 3 Hours

Less than 30 mins 6

1 hour 8

2hour 9

3 hour 14

More than 3 hours 13



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2)What do you use your computer for?

Internet Work Personal Learning Gaming

Other, Please Specify __________

Internet 41

Work 23Personal 26

Learning 18

Gaming 17

Others 3



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3) What are the 3 most common topics (relevant to IT) of conversation amongstyour friends?

a) ___________b) ___________c) ___________

O.S 19

Network 17

Gaming 13

Networking 12

Downloading 6

Updates 12

Languages 8

Surfing 7

Software 4

Technology 4

Music 13

Education 1

Web 6

Downloading 5

Outsourcing 4

others 14



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4) How many hours a day would you spend on Internet?


Less than 30 mins 9

1 hour 122hour 14

3 hour 7

More than 3 hours 8



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5) Which amongst these Browsers you are aware of? Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Safari Other, Please Specify ____________

Internet Explorer 42

Mozilla FireFox 43

Google chrome 35

Safari 22

Other 2

6) Which browser do you use as your default browser? Internet Explorer

Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Safari Other, Please Specify ____________


Mozilla Firefox 22

Google Chrome 10

Safari 5

Other 1



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7) Which Browser do you use for your Mobile Phone?



Mozilla Firefox 6

Google Chrome 7

Safari 4

Other 11

N/A 10



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8) In last 6 months, was your Computer got affected with any virus? If yes orno, which Browser were using?

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Yes 27

No 23


Mozilla FireFox 5

Google chrome 4

Safari 5

9) Which Browser supports your creativity?



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Internet Explorer 8

Mozilla FireFox 26

Google chrome 15

Safari 7

Other 3

10) Which Browser advertisement do you see very often?




Mozilla Firefox 20

Google Chrome 24

Safari 5



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11) Which products are stable?



Mozilla Firefox 29

Google Chrome 16

Safari 8



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12) Which browser you think has better Session Management?


Internet Explorer 8

Mozilla FireFox 22

Google chrome 10

Safari 13

13) How would you describe the services of Internet Explorer?


Fast Slow

Reliable Unreliable


30 20

Fast Slow

15 35

Reliable Unreliable

31 19



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14) How would you describe the services of Safari?


Fast Slow

Reliable Unreliable

Efficient Ineffiecient

24 6

Fast Slow

19 11

Reliable Unreliable

25 5

15) How would you describe the services of Google Chrome?


Fast Slow

Reliable Unreliable


34 8

Fast Slow

31 11

Reliable Unreliable

31 11

16) How would you describe the services of Mozilla Firefox?


Fast Slow

Reliable Unreliable

Efficient Ineffiecient45 3

Fast Slow

40 8

Reliable Unreliable

38 10

.Analyzing 13,14,15 & 16



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a) Fast or Slow

Fast Slow

Internet explorer 15 35

Safari 19 11Google chrome 31 11

Mozilla FireFox 48 8

b)Efficient or Ineffecient



Safari 24 6

Google chrome 34 8


c) Reliable or Unreliable



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Reliable Unreliable


Safari 25 5

Google chrome 31 11


17) Do you have Training Sessions from the respective Browsers you haveinstalled?

Yes No

Yes 20

No 30

18) Rate your Brand on a Scale of 1 to 5



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(1=poor 2=average 3=good 4=very good 5= excellent)

INTERNET EXPLORER

Performance 148

Stability 152

Compatibility 148

User-Friendliness 148

Memory-Management 142

Customer-support 132

MOZILLA FIREFOX

Performance 184Stability 180

Compatibility 180




SAFARI

Performance 120

Stability 116

Compatibility 127

User-Friendliness 122Memory-Management 122


GOOGLE CHROME

Performance 149

Stability 146

Compatibility 151





Brand IE Firefox Safari Chrome

Performance ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

Stability ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

Compatibility ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

User-friendliness ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

MemoryManagement

( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

Customer support ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )


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Internet Explorer Firefox Safari Chrome

Performance 148 184 120 149

Stability 152 180 116 146

Compatibility 148 180 127 151User-Friendliness 148 187 122 156

Memory-Management 142 172 122 151

Customer-support 132 176 115 145

19) Which one would you choose? Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Safari Other, Please Specify ____________

Internet Explorer 7

Mozilla Firefox 25

Google Chrome 12

Safari 5

Other 1



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20) How important is browser initial load speed? Very Important Less Important Not Important

Very important 47

Less important 3

Not important 0



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21) Would you try new web products after taking this survey? Yes Probably Maybe

Probably Not No

Yes 18

Probably 15

Maybe 12

Probably Not 3

No 2



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Blogging Analysis- snap shots taken for the respective blogs.

Blogs - http://iprkworld.blogspot.com

http://iprkworld.blogspot.com/http://iprkworld.blogspot.com/


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Blog - http://dreamsarenobigger.blogspot.com/

http://dreamsarenobigger.blogspot.com/http://dreamsarenobigger.blogspot.com/


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Global Statistics

Source: Wikipedia



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Recommendation

Our work attempted to improve user satisfaction and efficient discoveryof content in an online forum for Web-Browsers.

Firefox remains the most-recommended web browser for Windows,Mac OSX and Linux users. This is the only browser which is available on

all three Operating System and which gives maximum output. Reviews

say Firefox is even better, using less memory than earlier versions and

incorporating other improvements as well. It's by far the most

customizable web browser, with thousands of add-ons available. Forspeed, Firefox rivals the new Google Chrome browser as well. Although,

there is a very little preference for Apple Safari that claims to be the

fastest Browser in the World.

From the survey which we took with respect to the questionnaire as

well as the real-time interviews we would put it very lucidly that Firefox

is a clear winner if we take in consideration all the factors which are

essential for a Web-Browser to be the best.

Out of the 50 people we asked, 22 of them had their default

Browser as Mozilla Firefox.

First in Session Management First in Reliability

First in Efficiency First in Stability

First in the preference as well.

Firefox has features that no other browser has. When it comes to

searching the Web, then indeed Firefox is the best. It ensures that youdon't face any difficulty while searching the Web. A few mouse clicks

and you will be able to assign keywords to inbuilt Firefox search engines.

This will make things simpler. Just enter the search words and key in

location bar. This feature indeed is very useful. For instance if you type

book home building it will search Amazon.com without any

instructions. Your computer screen will show the list of books on home

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Find feature is another very useful feature that will help you to search a

phrase on a Web page. A simple keystroke and you will be able to use the

Find feature. Before you use this feature, you need to highlight text.The

finder will open with your selection. It is possible to see instances of

search at once. Now if that was not enough, you could also scrollforwards and backwards through appearances of word on that page.

Firefox gives you an easy method to access hundreds of Web search

engines. Thanks to integrated search bar, you can access quickly your

favorite web search engines. This means, for every search, you can now

access a new search engine or else you can use your favorite search

engine for each search. You can browse from the list of available search

engines. To ensure that you are offered the list of search engine options,

you will have to install an add-on.

Integrated Web search: Now searching the internet has become simpler

like never before. With search box inline that is on the location bar,

searching is a breeze. Firefox gives you the flexibility to choose a web

search engine from a list of inbuilt search engines. It is also possible to

adjust the width of search engine that you choose to use. You can always

make it bigger in case you require more space.

When you start typing your phrase or specific keyword in search bar, a

drop down box will be displayed showing you the list of filled inalternatives. The search bar of Firefox is multi-functional as it can be

used as a converter, calculator and more.

Another very interesting feature is Tab browsing which is especially

useful for advanced users. It has been observed that most internet users

frequently have to access data from multiple websites in order to

complete their task. Use multiple web browser windows to browse

different sites at a time is not at all feasible. To solve this issue, Firefox

has come with a new innovative way. This feature is very simple and easyto operate. Using this feature, you will be able to view as many sites as

you want.With tab browsing, you can conveniently open a site in a new

tab. So why open a new window for every site if all sites can be opened

in the same window. With a single mouse click on the tab, you will be

able to access these sites. It is possible that in a hurry you may close a tab

that you require. However Firefox gives an easy way to open the tabs that

you have closed. Click on history option and you will be able to view tabs

that you have recently closed. From there, just select tabs that you want to

open. The new features in Firefox 3, make your Web browsing user

friendly.



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