FireFox

My guess is you wouldn't be reading this unless you already knew what a web browser is. However, if you don't then its the software used to visit web pages on the Internet. 

The Internet is just one big giant network of computers. All connected to each other by many and varied means, and those computers that are 'on the net' are in reach of anyone with an Internet connection. Some of these computers are 'web servers'. These are computers that run software that allows web pages to be delivered from that computer - hence the name 'webserver'. Web servers 'serve' webpages. If you want to access these pages then you need software that knows how to do this. This is the purpose of the browser.

Browsers have had one of the most public and interesting competitive lives of any software. The first browser that could show images alongside text was known as Mosaic, and it really was an innovation that has changed the world. However, while Mosaic (and later Netscape Navigator), were first to the game, they failed to corner the market and after a relatively short and aggressive market war, Internet Explorer (made by Microsoft) took the game away. 

Recently there has been a new chapter added to this story. FireFox has come on the scene and it is a distant descendant of Mosaic. However the market war is really over, which is a pity as FireFox is the best browser you can get and continues to innovate and impress. FireFox runs on any operating system, it runs better than any other browser, and its free...