web browsers

Online content viewers

Web browsers are software applications that retrieve and display content from the internet.

A browser interprets code from websites and renders it as the pages you see and interact with.

Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge are common browsers.

Which browser do you use?

The term is often shortened to just browser.

Opposites
software function

web browsersweb servers

Network content delivery systems

search engines · text editors · email clients · native apps

network architecture role

web browsersweb servers

Network content delivery systems

Apache · cloud servers

information access method

web browsersprinted books

Published physical reading material

offline reading · encyclopedias · card catalogs · native apps · oral tradition

Family

browse, webs, webbed, browser, browsing, browsers, browsed, websites, browses

Familiarity
Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G