What is a browser?

There are some funny stats collected by a Google guy among his friends. People say "I know which Car i drive but when asked about which browser you use they are confused about web browsers — even though the browser is one of the most-used programs on computers.

To popularize Google Chrome and to bring awareness among web illiterates couple of Google Guys have launched a website whatbrowser.

The site gives equally simple text tutorials on how to change a homepage, a default search engine, and a default browser. Credit must go to the "folks" at Google for making these parts of the site accessible to the average Internet user, something that is difficult for a justifiably biased technology company to do.

How To's

• Change your homepage
• Change your search engine
• Change your default browser

The "Under the Hood" section of the site seemed like it might give the geekier among us some food for thought with regard to browser performance. It contained this history lesson of a browser timeline from Wikipedia and a series of diagnostic tests, mostly related to browsers' processing of JavaScript.

Graphs & Charts

• Graphical timeline of web browsers
• Javascript performance over time

And at the end they ask you to try a new browser