Although Netscape Navigator officially stopped development of the Netscape browser a while ago, and the last entry on blog.netscape.com was almost two years ago, it seems that Netscape has found new life in its new browser Flock, which recently made the top 12 browsers list. With the variety of browsers out there, here's a short list of the best.
The Newest and Best Current Browsers
Compiling a list of the best browsers available to web-surfers today is complicated, since today's users approach the web with a variety of needs and purposes. Flock advertises itself as the "Social Networking Browser," and watching today's teens and tweens, it's hard to argue against the usefulness of a browser targeted at that demographic. Google's Chrome browser continues to gain popularity, according to netmarketshare.com, and seems to be the only browser to do so. Internet Explorer, although the most popular browser in the world, has been losing popularity.
Web designers, of course, have headache after headache as new browsers appear. Creating websites that work on the widest variety of browsers and systems is a never-ending task. Older browsers don't support some CSS, flash, and various other new languages and content. The newer browsers all have the support for these elements, and users rarely get that "Flash Update Needed" message so common to older browsers. Today's best browsers are: