Web Browser
Web browser in an application software that helps us to view and explore information on the web or visit various websites.
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With the help of web browser user can request for any webpage by a URL.
Table of Contents
- What is Web Browser ?
- Main features of web browser ?
- Function of web browser ?
- Importance of web browser ?
- Different browser platform
- User experience
- Losing potential customers
- Types of web browser ?
- Internet explorer
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Safari
- Opera
It interpret the HTML tags in downloaded documents and format that shows data in a standard rules and styles.
With the help of web browser we can view text video animation and more.
Which devices can support web browsers
- Smartphones
- Laptop
- Tablets
- Desktop etc.
Main features of web browser
There are many features of web browsers which are very helpful for us. The main features of web browser are :
1. It allow an user to visit multiple web pages at the same time with the help of tasks on the same window.
2. It has an search bar which is used to enter the text for requesting any webpage.
3. It has an address bar which is used to putting the URL that is uniform resource locator.
4. It has an option to refresh the page.
5. There are two ←/ → back and forward button to go back or forward with the help of arrows.
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Function of web browser
There are many function of a web browser which are discussed in the following points :-
1. it is helpful to fetching the information from the web and also display them on user's device.
2. It has a cache memory of webpage resources to improve loading of web page.
Importance of web browser
1. Different browser platform
2. User experience
3. Losing potential customers
1. Different browser platform
Even, there are many web browsers like Google Chrome, Safari , Internet explorer etc. are available for us. Page visitor can move on different types of browser platform which gives a wide variety of options because an page can be shown on every browser.
2. User experience
Web browser provides very wonderful experience each and every time to user which is required to the website to be user-friendly.
3. Losing potential customers
Every page visited don't want to lost his time in adjusting browser setting. A good web browser have capability to do present all information or Data to client in a best manner it means no running error and gives free surfing.
Types of web browser
We know that web browsers are software that are installed on our PC and other devices. We need a browser to access the web page such as Microsoft Internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox etc. Earlier the web browsers were text based while new now a days graphical based or voice based web browsers are also available. These are the most common web browsers available today :
Internet explorer
Internet explorer is a product of Microsoft team . It was introduced in 1995 along with windows 95 launch and it has passed Netscape popularity in 1998. Internet explorer is the most commonly used and popular browser in the whole world.
Google Chrome
Chrome is known to be one of the most popular web browser. today, more than 50% page visitor uses Google Chrome. It is developed by Google and its beta version was first released on September 2 , 2008 for Microsoft window.
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox is a web browser , which is derived from Mozilla. it was released in 2004. it has grown to be the second most popular browsers on the internet.
Safari
Safari is a web browser which has very good support for latest technologies like XHTML , CSS 2 , etc. It is developed by Apple Inc. and included in MAC OS X. it was released in January 2003.
Opera
Opera is a faster and smaller than other browsers . It has many useful features such as fast , user friendly , with keyboard interface , zoom functions , multiple windows and more . It is idle for newcomers to the internet , handicapped , school children and as a front end for CD-ROM and Kiosks.