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I thought of it this week, at university. I wanted to see my blog through the old web browsers, and that's not as good as I believed. Actually, everything looks well, except the bottom bar, because only recent browsers supports the "inline-block" value of the "display" property. But that's not why I recommend you to keep your browser updated ; that's just an example among so many others.

Keep your browser updated, means you do a step in favour of the future ; let me explain. When you update your browser, many new properties are available, and web developers can make applications easier. Moreover, new browsers engines tend to be more equivalent, therefore there are less compatibility problems.

But keep your browser updated also means to avoid security issues, that are so recurrent in a browser life.

Moreover, by updating your browser it would offer you a better experience of the web ; often faster than your old version, more standards-friendly, your compatibility is increased. There aren't any good points to keep your oldish web browser. The main problem of the browser update is that people often don't even know that they exist. It's a real problem for developers who have to make web applications which are both compatible with old and newer browser versions. Therefore, it slows significantly the web enhancement.

So you guys are wondering if you have the latest version of your browser now ? Let's take a look at the main web browsers :

• Mozilla Firefox, known as one of the best browser to be released. A bit slower than Chrome, Safari or Opera, but it's open-source (Windows, Mac, Linux)
• Opera Browser, one of the most innovative web browser, which most known one is the inclusion of tabs into the browser instead of multiple windows (Windows, Mac, Linux)
• Apple Safari, a good web browser by Apple, not available on Linux (yet ?) (Windows, Mac)
• Google Chrome, the latest web browser to be released (it appeared in 2008), and the fastest in javascript execution (Windows, Linux with Chromium)
• Internet Explorer, known as the worse web browser to be released, for its standards and security issues, only available on Windows

So check out these websites and compare your version (generally available via the menu "About") with the one which is on your browser website. Download the lastest version if yours is not up-to-date !