Since I like to try new things related to IT, I thought I would try out one of Mozilla’s latest projects, the Minefield internet browser.  In the past year I have tried Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox, Internet Explorer 8 (IE), and Google’s Chrome.  My current favorites are Firefox and IE.  Unfortunately my employer is not a big fan of trying the latest version of Firefox even though I’m only using it on my desktop, I’m not deploying it to other desktops, and I’m using it knowing that I am responsible for supporting it.  In fact, our desktop people officially only support IE 6.

Sorry for the tangent…

For a pre-beta (alpha) of an internet browser, I am greatly impressed with how stable the Minefield browser is.  I realize that Minefield has a look and feel very similar to Firefox, but for me, there is something to be said for trying something new and being amazed when it works and how fast it is.

To obtain the latest (nightly) build of the Minefield browser, visit:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

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For a bit of nostalgia, I was trying to remember some of the first internet browsers that I used while working at computer labs in college and decided to take a look at the following webpage:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers

The university computer lab that I occasionally worked in (1991-1993) was fortunate to have several NeXT workstations with the WorldWideWeb browser and later the Mosaic browser installed.  In 1993-1995 while still in college I occasionally worked at a computer lab that had a few OS/2 Warp workstations with the IBM WebExplorer installed, but most of my time was spent at a Windows/Mac computer lab, where we used the following browsers: EINet’s WinWeb, NCSA’s Mosaic, EINet’s MacWeb, Minuet, Netscape Navigator, MacWWW, and Lynx.