Photos: Top 10 alternatives to Internet Explorer

When you leave Redmond, where do you go?

Another browser with a solid IE-bothering market share is Apple's Safari, no longer confined to Macs after Cupertino launched a Windows-friendly version last year.

As well as its good looks and plus points for usability - the bookmarks bar is a clever idea - Safari has all the features you'd expect including the original 'porn mode', Private Browsing, autofill for form and tabbed browsing.

It also offers a rather nifty feature called Snapback - which allows you to find the page you were looking at before you got distracted. Take Google for example - if you do a Google search, then start exploring some of the sites Google found and want to get your original search listings back, Snapback will take you straight there with one click.

Another nice touch is the bookmark organising feature, shown here, which is based on iTunes.

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  1. 1. Malcolm

    I'm surprised you didn't review Safari 4. It has also gained a one-click 'add tab' feature and includes coverflow for navigating bookmarks if you prefer, along with a nice home page feature which shows your favourite/most visited sites in a video wall style, using 'live' thumbnails of the site itself.

    • 3 July 2009 11:57
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