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Update Your Browser

As the internet evolves, so too do the tools that we use in order to navigate and use it. Despite the original Microsoft monopoly on browsers, over the past few years number of new browsers have slowly supplanted Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. They’ve offered different browser experiences, as well as different ways of looking at, and interacting with, the world wide web.

As a result, Microsoft itself has regularly worked on updating and improving their browser software, and new versions of their browser have been frequently available.

Moving Forward With New Technology

Microsoft launched the fist version of Internet Explorer way back in 1995, and for a long time, it remained the pre-eminent browser. With the improvement of web technology though, other browsers gained a respectable market share in the last few years.

Undoubtedly, the most popular Microsoft browser was IE6, released in 2001. However, despite its popularity, its lack of support for later web developments have now, effectively, rendered it obsolete.

As a result, as of this year, Google stopped supporting IE6, and Net Age did likewise, as explained in our article about plans by Google to phase out IE6 support.

IE6 Still In Use

However, going through the Analytics stats of our own and client websites, we can see that at least 30% of users in SA are still using IE6.

Guys and girls, c’mon. This is obsolete technology now. Not only are you missing out on the full range of online possibilities, but more and more you’ll find sites that don’t display, or work, properly in your browser.

Upgrading your browser is an easy process, and won’t use up a lot of your bandwidth either. All you have to do is follow one of the links below to download a new browser, or update your existing one.

Mozilla FireFox

An open source browser with countless free plug-ins to customise it any way you want, Firefox is our browser of choice at Net Age. If you’re going to upgrade your browser,

Visit http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ to download the latest version.

Opera

Opera is an alternative browser that’s now free to download. It’s a strong alternative, although their strict adherence to international standards may cause problems with sites that don’t comply completely with those standards.

You can download Opera by visiting http://www.opera.com/browser/.

Google Chrome

Google’s own web browser, Google Chrome, is another good choice. With fast download speeds, a built in privacy mode, and a simple user interface, Chrome is a great browser from the great search engine, although its relative youth sometimes counts against it, with some web technology so far unsupported.

Visit http://www.google.com/chrome to download Google Chrome.

Internet Explorer

If you really can’t bring yourself to break away from Microsoft, then at least upgrade your browser to the latest Internet Explorer, IE8.

You can download IE8 by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx.

We Recommend

At Net Age, we strongly recommend Mozilla FireFox, but our sites all support each of the browsers mentioned here.

Our sites no longer support IE6 though, and we suggest that everybody stops using this now obsolete browser, and updates to a more recent software package for browsing the internet.