What is web browser

Admin-DM August 05, 2021

Web Browsing Software

A web browser or simply browser is a special software that enables the users to read/view web pages and jump from one web page to another. It is the software that is needed to find, retrieve, view and send information over the internet. The process of using browser to view information on the internet is known as Browsing or Surfing

Browsers types-

  1. Text-Based Web Browsers are the browser that support text only not graphics. E.g. Lynx
  2. Graphical-Based Web Browsers provide a GUI where the user can jump from one page to another by clicking on the hyperlink on a web page . E.g. Chrome, Mosaic, Internet Explorer etc.

Popular web browser-

Google Chrome - Chrome is a cross-platform web browser developed by Google Inc. It was first released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows, and was later ported to Linux, MacOS, iOS, and Android.

Internet Explorer - Internet Explorer was a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Windows OS, starting in1995. later It was replaced by Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft Edge - Microsoft released this browser for Windows 10 and Xbox One in 2015, then for Android and iOS in 2017. 

Mozilla Firefox - Firefox is free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. It is freely available for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, BS, Solaris OS as well as android. 

Apple Safari - Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. The heart of Apple's Safari browser is the Web Kit engine, which is responsible for functions like displaying graphics, rendering fonts, running JavaScript and determining page layout and it is a free wave web browser.

Functions of Web Browser

  1. The web browser gets URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the site and understands the web address of DNS (Domain Name Server) hyperlinks.
  2. It identifies the web page and formats the web documents to display on the screen.
  3. The Web browser helps users to have a history and go back & forward through pages that have already visited.
  4. The web browser makes possible to copy text from the web page and paste it into a word processing program (or) as desired by users.
  5. Web browser helps to print the web documents/pages.
  6. The web browser makes possible to transfer online documents to user's computer called downloading.
  7. The web browser allows user to send and receive e-mails, through web mail.

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