Attack of the Rebel Browsers

Quick, name two web browsers. Oh, come on! You can do better than the usual suspects — Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The geekier among you are probably aware of Opera, a browser born and distributed in Norway. But do you know about Rdesk or 1X or iCab? If not, you should. Navigator and IE may be the Coke and Pepsi of the browser generation, but they have their drawbacks. Each has become ever more bloated, taking up at least 10 megabytes of your precious hard drive space and gobbling up too much of your computer's RAM. That's why increasingly, sleeker, smaller browsers are starting to take off. And some of the things they do may surprise you. MORE>>

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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