How To Install Alternative Browsers

Hi I am Steve Ling form PC Paramedics. Some of you might have noticed a new icon on your desktop since last windows update. This is the icon here.

Microsoft have decided to give users the opportunity to install a number of different web browsers in addition to or instead of their own embedded internet explorer.Today I would like to look at what this icon means how we use it how we install internet explorer if we dont wish to use it and how install one of the alternative web browsers. So the first thing to do is to look at this particular application by double clickling on it and reading what Microsoft is saying.

This is telling you that there are many web browsers out there and this particular applet features just a fewn in fact 5. We click here on OK it will go to the internet and you see the five that is offering you google chrome, Mozilla Firefox well lots of you have heard these particular names internet explorer 8 the latest iteration of internet explorer, opera's browser and the well known safari browsers that comes with most apple macs. So you choose an example, I will choose google chrome because its the closest one to me, we just click on install.

That takes you to web broser page gives the opportunity to accept the license and install the browser. We are now downloading th Google Chrome browser and installing it automatically, very little for the user to intervene. Behind that particular window its telling you thank you for trying Google chrome.

As soon as Google chrome is downloaded and installed one can start using it as your browser. Lot of people find different browsers faster than others or have features they prefer, its really a matter of experimentation. You can use this particular screen if you are running internet explorer 7 to upgrade to internet explorer 8 its the simple way of doing so.

So we are just installing Google chrome now its almost complete. As you can see from desktop we have already installed Mozilla Firefox. Here is an important choice which you need to make do you want to make Google chrome your default browser or you would prefer to leave one of the other alternative browsers as a default one to open up a webpage.

I am going to say don't make it my default browser but I am going to say start Google chrome. Its importing all of my history from my previous browsers and its offer me the opportunity there quite clearly because Google chrome is from Google to use Google as main search engine. So if we close that down now you can see that Google chrome have installed a desktop icon a shortcut from to open it up.

You can see how fast is Google chrome install because there is very little behind it to slow it down. However you can still use internet explorer 8 and because we already installed it from that application we can use Mozilla firefox as well as a browser. And we are not going to install it as the default.

So thats Mozilla Firefox. There are three different browsers with three different ranges of configurations and options.