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Mozilla Just released Mozilla 1.0.2 is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. Mozilla supports Microsoft Windows (95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP) Mac OS X, Mac OS (8.5, 8.6, 9.x), x86 Linux, plus there are Mozilla browser builds for practically every other operating system as well. The favorite of the RCTC Web Manager. Works very well from my experience. I highly recommended it as an alternative to MS IE.

Opera browser - Don't like Micro$oft? Tired of Netscrape? Try the Opera Internet browser. Opera 6 supports many key Web standards and a variety of computing platforms. Its lead designer was the chief author of the CSS-1 standard. If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it. The browser, which works well even on older PCs with limited power, is available free of charge. (A pay version is also available.) Opera supports Windows, Linux (beta, but works very well, from what I've heard), Mac OS (beta, but works very well), and will soon support the OS/2, EPOC, and BeOS platforms.

Netscape Now - Internet browser - Netscape 7, the latest update to the Netscape browser suite. Netscape 7 complies with five important Web standards, including full support for XML and the DOM. These technologies can help Web builders create powerful sites that work well (at least in theory). The browser is available free of charge. It is based on the standards-compliant Gecko engine and open-source Mozilla, which supports AIX, Linux, Win32, Mac OS, OpenVMS, HPUX, and FreeBSD. It also supports Mac OS X and Windows XP. Netscape 6.2 offers Java for running web applets, Nullsoft Winamp for audio playback, RealPlayer8 for streaming media, and Marcromedia Flash for high impact web content.

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