Quiz: Browser wars
Summary: In the last few weeks all the major browsers have been updated to give us a faster and hopefully more secure access to the Internet. Let's see how much you know about them.
Hard to believe but it was only 20 years ago when the first Web browser made an appearance. In the last few weeks all the major browsers have been updated to give us a faster and hopefully more secure access to the Internet. Let's see how much you know about them.
Instructions: Click on your answer and then see how many others agree with you. Then click to see the answer and the next question.
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Internet Explorer made a smashing debut at a time when over 80 percent of the browsers in use were named Netscape. About three years later IE moved ahead. One reason is...
Answer is C. IE was bundled with every new Windows PC
Netscape found out that it was almost impossible to compete with a browser that was free and easily accessible.
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In the most recent surveys, which browser version is the most in use today.
Answer is: C. Internet Explorer 8.0 owns about 34 percent of the browser market share according to Netmarketshare's February statistics.
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During recent benchmark speed tests of the major new browsers one fell flat
Answer is B. Internet Explorer 9 (64-bit).IE 9 64-bit is using an older, slower JavaScript engine.
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Which Scandinavian country is the home of Opera?
Answer is A. Norway. OK. Who thought Switzerland was in Scandinavia? [poll id="195"]
Firefox could be in trouble according to ZDNet’s Ed Bott. Why?
Answer is C. Firefox doesn’t have an app ecosystem or a loyal core of developers, according to Ed Bott. But Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and Stephen Vaughan-Nichols don't agree.
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Which current browser is a direct descendant of Netscape Navigator (which was built by the people who built Mosaic)?
Answer is A. Firefox
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Who invented the first browser, the WorldWideWeb browser?
Answer is D. Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 (remember that year)
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Mozilla’s first browser was called?
Answer is C. Phoenix
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In recent usage surveys which browser is gaining the most ground.
Answer is D. Chrome [poll id="201"]
Already in a steep slide, Netscape was purchased by what company in 1999?
Answer is B. AOL. Netscape continued to slide in market share until AOL stopped supporting it in 2008 but it did assist Firefox.
Correct answers
10: You're addicted. 7-9: You use a different browser for every Website. 4-6: You've used the same browser for years. 1-3: You must be using IE 6. 0: You think Al Gore was elected president, too. Thanks for playing!
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Bullcrap
RE: Quiz: Browser wars
Perhaps you need to refer to Microsoft's antitrust case - it directly pertained to the unfair advantage of IE through bundling with Windows.
Yeah Sure
Been using Netscape until IE5. At that point NN4.76 just stopped developing so I used IE5 for a year or 2. What they did develop was bundled crap for AOL. Then Mozilla .5 came along and I was back and forth with IE until Mozilla .8 and never went back to IE.
By the way, none of the alternative browsers failed to install on any version of Windows and make it my default browser. Now Firefox is in the lead and Windows still bundles IE with every install if you don't count Win98Lite shell stripping program. Created more problems than they are worth.
Go here.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
Perhaps you need to refer to the whole story. This was a serverly bias
You're right
Judge Jackson's findings of fact were all upheld on appeal
So we're not talking about just a single Judge here. It looks to me like they were all in agreement.
Let's get this straight
You're going to argue that Netscape
-Didn't quickly descend into a mess security wise due to their "need" to have more features than IE
-Didn't become more bloated due to the same reason
-Didn't become slower due to the large number of unnecessary features
-Didn't have the support of the ISP
?
goff256, just reread what I actually wrote
The case was on whether or not they were using their monopoly status
However, recent evidence has proven that a superior browser can beat IE (as shown by the marketshare of IE falling). This evidence was not around back then, and thus was not brought up. But it has been shown that a superior browser won't fail in the market the same way that Netscape did after IE was introduced.
Why is this?
NETSCAPE SUCKED.
Tell it to the Judges.
<b><i><u>All of them.</u></i></b>
Do you think repeating things
More to the point...
Alright, let's go through what he said.
Did it ever occur to you...
So you're saying, with your words
Netscape wasn't better so it lost.
You can't rewrite reality and make Netscape less of a sucky browser.
Those are not my words - you are hallucinating.
You're right
But Netscape sucking was another cause, one that hurt them more than IE. The fact that you're leaning on LEGAL things regarding IE/Netscape means you don't want to go on the VALUE of Netscape. That says a lot.
Also, IE was falling fairly fast BEFORE the browser ballot, as Firefox has actually proven to be really good competition. Same with Chrome, it is competitive. Netscape was not, which aided greatly in it being killed off.
Don't bother with @goff256
Of course I believe in the third option where he really knows but chooses to publicly deny it anyway because to do so would be admitting his employers engaged in wrong doing.
It's a typical shill tactic.
RE: Quiz: Browser wars
RE: Quiz: Browser wars
IE9 64 bit does not use old javascript engine. It uses the same 'Chakra' engine but it is not JIT compiled like IE9 32 bit does.
Taken from h-t-t-p-://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2009/05/29/q-a-64-bit-internet-explorer.aspx
"Q: What does 64bit IE9 get faster JavaScript benchmark scores than IE8 but slower scores than 32bit IE9?
In IE9 there's one other major difference between the 32bit and 64bit versions of IE. IE9 includes a new script interpreter which is much faster than the script interpreter in IE8. However, 32bit IE9 also includes a Just In Time (JIT) script compiler which converts script into machine code before running it. There is no JIT compiler for 64bit IE. So, for benchmarks like SunSpider (and script-heavy sites) 32bit IE9 runs script up to 4 times as fast as 64bit IE9 (which itself runs script around 5x as fast as IE8). So, you could end up paying a significant speed penalty when using 64bit IE9 vs using the default 32bit version."