Web Browser
Web Browser
Web Browser
“Software used to display the World Wide Web and often the Internet
in general. Examples include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera,
Safari and Google Chrome”
“An easy-to-use software tool for accessing the World Wide Web and
the Internet.”
Although browsers are primarily intended to access the World Wide Web,
they can also be used to access information provided by web-
Servers in private networks or files in file systems.
https: for HTTPS,
A status bar to display progress in loading the resource and also the URI of
links when the cursor hovers over them, and page zooming capability.
Standards support
Early web browsers supported only a very simple version
of HTML.
Web crawling
Indexing
Searching
This cached page always holds the actual search text since
it is the one that was actually indexed, so it can be very
useful when the content of the current page has been
updated and the search terms are no longer in it.