Fast Browser Pro 7.0

This software's claim--to be able to open 180 Web pages at once--might smack of a stunt for the Guinness Book of World Records, but the program does offer a useful alternative to traditional browsers. Built on the Internet Explorer engine, it offers now-standard tabbed browsing, and an easy-to-use Groups feature that opens several pages at once. It offers an option that reads pages aloud, and a feature that can automatically search using 500 different search engines. Its pop-up blocker functioned well in our tests, and it consumed considerably less system memory than Firefox, even when opening large numbers of pages. If you're looking for an alternative to the big names in the browser wars, Fast Browser may be worth a try.