Browser wars is a metaphorical term that refers to competitions for dominance in usage share in the web browser marketplace.During the 1990's Netscape's Navigator got replaced by Microsoft's Internet Explorer as a dominant browser. From the 1990s to just lately, 4 different browsers have been created, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, and Opera. In my opinion, a "browser war" is the competition between browsers. They constantly try to out do each other, with different ways to offer their service. To add more features to their browser to make it easier for everyone to use, and coming out with new upgrades with better and better accessible features. For example, Netscape's browser war with Microsoft in the 1990's. Internet Explorer did everything they could to make their browser the bested offered. They came out with new logos to put Netscape away. The four most used browsers today are, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Google Chrome. The differences in how different web browsers parse and display web pages, which creates problems for web developers trying to make their web pages display consistently from one browser to another. To have the #1 web browser means you have to be consistent with your page and keep updating the features and fixing the odds and ends.
When my family first got a computer and have AOL, the dial up service. The service was horrible, very slow. The features weren't accessible at all. Then it switched to Internet Explorer, at first the browser didn't have much to offer. For example, now you can open as many tabs as you want and be on as many sites at you wanted at the same time, a few years ago that was not possible at all. Now I used Mozilla Firefox and have used it for awhile now and I don't have any problems with the browser at all, as of now.
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