Try A New Web Browser
Do you remember the browser wars? That was when a company who had a web browser named Netscape fought for dominance with Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE). Guess who won the battle? Many of us have gotten so used to using Internet Explorer that we haven't given much thought to any of the competition. Some are even unaware of the software that does the job of interrpreting the code that goes into making web pages come to life for us. There is a lot of variety out there.
One contender for your browsing pleasure is FireFox 3.x and it is the preferred browser of some users. There's Opera, currently in it's nineth version, so that tells us that it's been around for a while. Flock is the social web browser. I guess that would be a favorite among the MySpace crowd. There's Safari, and there are others as well.
One new one that came to our attention recently is Google's Chrome. This one is so much faster than IE, that it's a pleasure to use. Even the painfully slow sites load noticeably more quickly. This is easy to find and easy to download and install. Google has a good help section on its web site. Just google "Chrome browser" and your search engine, propably Google, will take you to the download site.
Incidently, I have been using Opera as my default browser while in testing mode, and found a lot to like about this browser. A feature that will make it popular among some users—especially developers, is that it remembers the loaded pages from one session to another. That is, close it and the same pages are loaded when you open it the next time. Ever lose a page that you just can't find again. This feature is the answer to that dilemma.
How many browsers do you need?
Those who develope web sites need as many as they can find in order to test the code they write. As surprising as it may seem, web browsers are not consistant in the features they support nor the way they render the features that they do support. If a page does not seem to be complete, you may be right. The browser you are using may be ignoring parts of the page or displaying it in another way than intended by the designer.
These lesser known browsers have a great advantage at this time: They have smaller user bases, so they are not so often targeted by the hackers. This means that your net-cruising is safer in these vehicles.
Why not try other browsers to see another view of the web? But don't consider Netscape, the original browser for the World Wide Web. They've quit publishing it.
Google Earth?
By the way, have you tried Google Earth? If you enjoy travel and looking at pictures of places you might let Google install that while you're getting Chrome. Or if you have Earth, let Google install the upgrade. To move from one place to another Google uses the term fly. So thay you fly from one place to another.