WEB BROWSERS

WEB BROWSER

A web browser is an application software for accessing the world wide web or a local website. When a user requests a web page From a particular website, the web browser retrieves the necessary content from a web server and then displays the page on the user's device. 

•TYPES OF WEB BROWSERS

   1. Google Chrome :- 

Google Chrome is the world's most used web browser. In 77% of devices, Google Chrome is used. This browser developed by Google in 2008 for Microsoft Windows. Later it is used in macOS, Linux,Android,iOS operating systems. It is a very reliable browser and available in 47 languages. The installation process of Google Chrome is very easy and free for everyone.


2. Mozilla Firefox :-

Mozilla Firefox also known as the Firefox browser developed by the Mozilla foundation and the Mozilla corporation in 2002. It is available on Linux, Microsoft windows, Android and iOS operating systems. In the Linux system, the Mozilla Firefox is the default installed browser.


3. Safari :-

Safari web browser is a freeware browser from the apple Inc. Safari is the default web browser in Mac computers and in OSX and iOS operating systems. Safari was released in the year 2003. A version of the browser is available for Windows operating system as well. Today, Safari is popular because of Apple products. The web browser has some awesome iOS specific features such as printing the current web page using Airprint and MDI-style browsing.


4. Internet Explorer :-

As Windows operating system is the most popular desktop operating system in the world , Internet explorer or simply IE is the default browser in Windows making this browser the fourth most popular and used browser in the world. This browser is not free as it requires a Windows license to use. The Internet Explorer today has added new features to support the latest web technologies. 

It is semi active browser for windows and remains discontinued for Unix and Mac. The UI of the browser has been considerably improved when compared to its older versions. Now the browser is fast and smooth. The only downfall of the internet explorer is even today is that some advanced features are not supported whereas such advanced web features are supported on Chrome and Firefox. 


5. Opera :-

Opera web browser is one of the oldest web browsers which was released by Opera Software in the year 1995. The freeware browser was written in C++ that is available in more than 40 languages. Opera web browser is available for Windows, UNIX and OS X. Opera browser uses the Blink layout engine.

Opera is also available as Opera mini, Opera Mobile and Opera Coast for different mobile Operating Systems like Android, iOS, Symbian, Windows Phone, Bada, Maemo, Windows mobile and BlackBerry.

Opera is known for introducing many new features that was adopted by other browsers.




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