Lynx is a text browser that is used to browse the World Wide Web. Lynx is often used by web developers, and is even suggested by Google to identify and troubleshoot problems with how a web spider might see a particular webpage. The Lynx browser is no way the latest and greatest browser on the web, but it does continue to serve a very useful purpose to the web community.

Opera is one of the older browsers on the web, and didn't always used to be totally free. In it's early day's it was supported by ads which would run in the header of the program. Well, times have changed, and Opera has smartened up to the fact that a browser has to be free in order for it to be popular. Nobody is going to pay, or want to have extra ads thrown in their face for using the most basic of tools to access the web. They have gone even further than imagined with their latest release, which essentially turns your browser into a social networking hub. This enables you to share files with your friends easily, chat, and become your own server that you can connect to from anywhere in the world. It seems like a pretty cool idea, but time will tell how effective it is for their browser.

Mozilla Firefox is by far one of the most preferred browsers on the planet at this point, especially within the development community as it has tons of add-ons that will blow your mind. Once again, the open-source community shines through with a huge community behind these addons, and some see hundreds of thousands of downloads per day. If Firefox isn't the most popular browser right now, within 10 years it probably will.