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  2. Web browser - Wikipedia

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    A web browser displaying a web page. A web browser is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers are used on a range of devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

  3. List of web browsers - Wikipedia

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    Timeline representing the history of various web browsers The following is a list of web browsers that are notable. Historical Usage share of web browsers according to StatCounter till 2019-05. See HTML5 beginnings, Presto rendering engine deprecation and Chrome's dominance. See also: Timeline of web browsers This is a table of personal computer web browsers by year of release of major version ...

  4. Comparison of web browsers - Wikipedia

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    Operating system support. Browsers are compiled to run on certain operating systems, without emulation.. This list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common Netscape Navigator was also developed for OS/2 at a time when macOS 10 did not exist) but does not include the growing appliance segment (for example, the Opera web browser has gained a leading role for use in mobile phones ...

  5. History of the web browser - Wikipedia

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    History of the web browser. A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. It further provides for the capture or input of information which may be returned to the presenting system, then stored or processed as necessary. The method of accessing a particular page or ...

  6. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software user agent for accessing information on the World Wide Web. To connect to a website's server and display its pages, a user needs to have a web browser program. This is the program that the user runs to download, format, and display a web page on the user's computer.

  7. Opera (web browser) - Wikipedia

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    Opera. Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera. [11] [12] [13] The current edition of the browser is based on Chromium. Opera is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS (Safari WebKit engine). [14] [15] Two mobile versions also exist, called Opera Mobile [16] and Opera Mini.

  8. Semantic Web - Wikipedia

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    The Semantic Web, sometimes known as Web 3.0 (not to be confused with Web3 ), is an extension of the World Wide Web through standards [1] set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The goal of the Semantic Web is to make Internet data machine-readable. To enable the encoding of semantics with the data, technologies such as Resource Description ...

  9. Firefox - Wikipedia

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    Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source [11] web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. [12]