What is Web browser?
A '''web browser''' is a [[computer program]] application for reading pages of the [[World Wide Web]]. Since the late 1990s, most [[personal computer|personal computers]] and [[Mobile phone|mobile phones]] and other [[mobile_device |mobile devices]] have a browser. Web browsers are used by people to find and look at [[Website|websites]] on the [[Internet]]. The first web browser was created in 1990. Many web browsers are available for free. All web browsers can go to websites but each browser has good things and bad things about it. For example, some browsers focus on [[Information security|data security]] and keeping computers safe from [[computer virus|viruses]]. Other browsers are made so that web pages appear on-screen faster. [[File:Wikipedia page by Flock browser.jpg|thumb|305px|Print-Screen of a [[Simple English Wikipedia|Simple English]] [[Wikipedia]] page by [[Flock|Flock browser]].]] Some popular web browsers include: * [[Mozilla Firefox]] * [[Google Chrome]] * [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] * [[Safari]] * [[Internet Explorer]] included with [[Microsoft Windows]] ** [[Microsoft Edge]], a more modernized version of Internet Explorer, included with [[Windows 10]] Other browsers are: * [[Flock]] * [[Epiphany (software)|Epiphany]] == Web browsers and HTML == A [[webpage]] is one page of a [[website]]. Every web page has a [[Uniform Resource Locator|web address]]. A web browser goes to a web page using a web address. It downloads the [[HTML]] file stored at that address. Its [[browser engine]] then reads and translates the HTML file. The browser will then show the webpage on the screen as text, [[image]]s and clickable [[Link|links]]. {{commonscat|Web browsers}} == Other websites == * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgULe_we-J0 What is browser? Video by Google] * [http://taligarsiel.com/Projects/howbrowserswork1.htm How browsers work] * [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Web_browser Web Browser] -Citizendium {{DEFAULTSORT:Web Browser}} [[Category:Web browsers| ]] {{tech-stub}}