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QUESTION POSED ON: 07 December 2004
What are the differences in costs and features between Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, Opera, Netscape and IE?

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There's no cost difference, except that you can pay to get rid of advertising that appears in Opera. They're otherwise all free of purchase cost.

To comprehend this, consider that lots of things are free in this life that other people have laboured on: jazz in the park, birthday parties, walking tracks through the forest. They might cost money to make, but no-one's going to send you a bill. Just enjoy such things, don't waste the opportunity.

On features, that's a very long story, but some basic points are:

  • Product Maturity: Opera, Netscape and Mozilla are more mature.
  • Internal Quality: Opera, Netscape and Mozilla are better inside.
  • Vendor lock-in: IE is the only browser seeking to be non-standard.
  • Security: IE has a track record ten times worse than the rest.
  • Featurism: Opera and Mozilla have many small enhancements.


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