There is now a variety of web browsers available for accessing the internet (and mobile phones). In the early days of internet 'surfing' the most well known were probably Internet Explorer and Netscape. The 'new kids on the block', relatively speaking, were Firefox, Safari and Opera, although other browsers are undoubtably in development. They all have their plus points and minus points - at the end of the day, it's all down to personal preference. Without wishing to favour any particular name, here is a brief overview.

• Firefox
  Firefox runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Version 3 released July 2008. (Information source: Wikipedia)). It provides many built in accessibility features for both users and web developers and the large collection of add-ons includes a growing number aimed at accessibility users.
  
  
  
  
• Internet Explorer
  The current Version 7 was released in 2006 and included 'tabbed' browsing, first seen in Firefox. Version 8 was released in beta in March 2008. Find out more about version 6 >
  
  
  
  
• Safari
  First released 2003 and included with the Mac OS X v10.3. Version 2.0 released in 2005 and runs only on Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) or later
  Version 3.1 is now available for the Mac OS X and PC. (Information source: Wikipedia).
  
  
  
  Also see Safari for the iPhone >

• Opera 9.51 and OperaMini for mobile phones.
  
  
  
  
• Konqueror. Open source web browser. Supports Java applets, JavaScript, CSS 1, CSS 2.1, as well as Netscape plugins. Uses the HTML rendering engine called KHTML, which is used by Safari.

Resources

• Opera 9 versus Firefox 3
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Firefox 3 versus Safari 3
  
  
  
  

Tuning your particular web browser

Making text larger in browsers for:

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux

Changing text colours in browsers for:

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux