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What is a browser?

Web Browser Definition: The web browser is a software application that allows Internet users to access, browse and search for information, services or products worldwide. Web browsers interpret hypertext links that allow you to read documents formatted in HTML, JavaScript, and AJAX so that they can be viewed on the computer screen.
The web browser also known as "Internet browser", "web browser" or simply "browser". An Internet browser serves to retrieve and view the information contained in a website from servers located around the world. This network of documents is called World Wide Web or www.

Browsers offer plug-ins that extend the software's capabilities to display multimedia information such as audio and video. Currently, any browser allows to display or execute graphics, video sequences, sound, animations, in addition to text and hyperlinks or links.

The process of tracking links from one page to another, located on any computer connected to the Internet, is called navigation; which is where the word browser originates.

The documents shown as a result of the navigation are called web pages, which have hyperlinks to link a portion of text or an image to another document, usually related to the text or image.
What is a web browser for?

The main function of a browser is to allow the display of text documents, which may contain multimedia resources. The documents may be located on the user's computer, but they may also be on an external device or through the Internet.

A browser can be used to make videoconferences, design web pages or add anti-phishing filters or other security features for a website.
Internet Browser Examples


Examples of browsers are:

    Google Chrome
    Internet Explorer
    Firefox
    Apple Safari
    Opera

The most popular browsers are Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. It is likely that to see this same page you have used one of the browsers mentioned above.
Mobile browsers

There are browsers that are designed to access the Internet using a mobile device such as a tablet or smartphones. A mobile browser called a micro browser is optimized to display web content on small screens. Mobile browsers are typically simpler versions of web browsers.

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