Safeguarding Your Children Online (part 3)

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Parental control available from other Internet browsers.

In the last article we looked at the parental controls available through the ever popular Internet Explorer browser and IE7 and IE8 in particular. In this article we are looking at the most popular competitors to Internet Explorer and what parental controls they possess.

Mozilla Firefox

Secure in the number two spot (and rising), the Firefox browser is the Open Source answer to IE and accounts for 20% of all browser use. It is very secure and there are lots of free add-ons to make your browser customisable. Go easy on the add-ons because Firefox can get a bit bloated and become slow to load.
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Like IE7 and IE8, Firefox is a tabbed browser, which means that you can open several web pages at a time and click on the tabs to move from one to another.

Firefox has no parental control over content other than the usual blocking of fraudulent websites, phishing and malware defence, pop-up blockers and cookie acceptance control. However, it does have a very good system for Bookmarks (similar to IEs Favourites) and an excellent method whereby you can import all the favourites in IE into Firefoxs bookmarks.

Safari

Safari is to Apple what IE is to Microsoft. Originally developed by Apple as a browser for their Mac operating system, Safari has been available in a Windows version for some years and now accounts for 10% of all browser use. In common with all Apple software, the security is excellent. The bookmarks are displayed in an area below the address bar all the time in a tabbed browser, which is a bit limiting on the number of Bookmarks you can keep. Safari has no parental control over content other than the usual blocking of fraudulent websites, pop-up blockers and cookie acceptance control.

Chrome

Fast competing with Safari for the number 3 spot, Googles own browser Chrome is at number 4 and accounts for 10% of the browser market. It is super fast to load and browse and earlier issues with its security have been addressed. Chrome has exactly the same problem as Safari; the bookmarks are displayed in an area below the address bar all the time, which is a bit limiting on the number of Bookmarks you can keep. Chrome has no parental control over content other than the usual blocking of fraudulent websites, phishing and malware defence, pop-up blockers and cookie acceptance control.

Opera

Five % of Internet users use this super fast and secure browser. Opera keeps its bookmarks (favourites) in a normal list like IE or Firefox and is a tabbed browser. Like IE8 it shows thumbnails of your most visited websites when you open a new tab, in a feature called Speed dial. Opera has no parental control over content other than the usual blocking of potentially dangerous websites (virus-wise) and has no pop-up blocker or cookie acceptance control.

AOL

Both a browser and a search engine (powered by Google), America Online is a popular browser for those with an AOL e-mail account and AIM (AOL Instant Messaging). AOL comes with no parental control out of the box, but has the option of AOL Security suite (powered by McAfee) which covers both PC Virus control and Online protection. In addition you can subscribe to a separate Online Identity protection and secure transaction browser within a browser called SafeCentral for an annual fee that covers up to three computers.

by: Hannah McCarthy

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