Introduction to Firefox Our guess is that you wouldn't be
reading this unless you already know what a web browser is.
However, if you don't: it's the software used to visit and view
web pages on the Internet. The Internet is a giant network of
computers all connected to each other. It has grown from the
first four systems that were originally connected in 1969 to
currently over a billion systems and growing. Some of the
computers connected to the Internet are "web servers." These web
servers run software that allows them to deliver web pages. The
vast network of web Servers on the Internet provides access to
over 10 billion web pages and a continually growing and evolving
set of web content and services. If you want to access these
pages from your personal computer, laptop, or mobile device, you
need to run a software program that knows how to do this. This
is the purpose of a web browser. History of web browsing
Browsers have had one of the most public and interesting
competitive lives of any software. The f