Browsers Internet Explorer Internet Explorer (IE) by Microsoft is the most common Internet browser today. IE was introduced in 1995 and passed Netscape in popularity in 1998. Netscape Netscape was the first commercial Internet browser. It was introduced in 1994. Netscape gradually lost its popularity to Internet Explorer. The development of Netscape officially ended in February 2008. Mozilla The Mozilla Project has grown from the ashes of Netscape. Browsers based on Mozilla code is the second ் largest browser family on the Internet today, representing about 30% தி Internet community. Firefox Firefox is a new browser from Mozilla. It was released in 2004 and has grown to be the second most popular browser on the Internet. Opera Opera is another Internet browser. It is known to be fast and small, standards-compliant, and available for many operating systems. Opera is the preferred browser for a number of small devices like mobile phones and hand-held computers.