SecretWeb 6.0

To access the web you need three things. First of all you need a computer; secondly you need a connection to the internet; last but not least, you need a software application that allows you to surf the web, you need a browser. The Microsoft-developed Windows operating system comes bundled with a browser to let you do just that, surf the web. That browser is Internet Explorer or IE for short.

Now some people use IE, others do not. There are other alternative browsers out there you could put to the test. Like for example SecretWeb, a browser that weighs in at little over 7MB – meaning it should take but a moment to download the application on your system.

Once the download completes, it is time to install SecretWeb. You will be glad to find out that SecretWeb works with just about any version of the Microsoft-developed Windows operating system, including the old but popular Windows XP, the much avoided Vista, and the latest and greatest, Windows 7. You will also be glad to know that SecretWeb is freeware. You can use it for as long as you want without having to pay anything in return.

SecretWeb offers all the bits and pieces you can expect to get from a web browser. The thing that separates it from other browsers is the fact that it puts a great deal of emphasis on privacy. It’s not like InPrivate Browsing in IE, it is something else. SecretWeb comes with hotkeys that allow you to hide the browser out of view. Say you are at work, surfing the web and a coworker comes up to you – press the right key combination and SecretWeb will hide out of view. This way your coworker will not realize what you were doing.

Pros

• Nice user interface
• Tabbed browsing
• Pop-up blocker
• Hotkeys to hide SecretWeb away and bring it back into view
• Hotkey to launch the screensaver

Cons

• Sluggish at times
• Can cause your computer, other applications to act sluggish

SecretWeb has been reviewed by George Norman on 18 May 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated SecretWeb 3 out of 5 stars, naming it Very Good