Browsers

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Plug-in

A hardware or software application that adds a specific feature to a browser.

URL

A location or address identifying where documents can be found on the Internet; a Web address

Tabs

Tabs give your browser the ability to load multiple web pages without opening a new window.

HTTP

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

(Google Chrome) Themes

Custom browser skins that help you personalize your browser.

WorldWideWeb

(later renamed to Nexus to avoid confusion between the software and the World Wide Web) is the first web browser and editor and now discontinued. When it was written, WorldWideWeb was the only way to view the Web.

Netscape

1st graphical browser that made Internet available to everyone

Bookmark

A URL that you save in your browser so all you have to do is click on the title to visit it again

Status bar

A bar at the bottom of the program window that provides information about the current file and process.

Search box

A box near the top of a File Explorer window that you can use to search for items containing key words.

Refresh

A command that reloads the contents of a window or Web page with the most current data.

Web page

An electronic document which can be accessed through a web browser.

Lynx

It is a classic text-based web browser .

Cache

It is a collection of data duplicating original values stored elsewhere on a computer

Camino

It is a discontinued a free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the OS X operating system.

Mozilla Firefox

It is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.

Google Chrome

It is a freeware web browser developed by Google.

Toolbar

It is a menu bar of buttons and input boxes on the browser.

HTTPS

It is a protocol for secure communication over a computer network which is widely used on the Internet.

Internet Explorer

It is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.

A web browser

It is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

Search Engine

It is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

Spartan

It is a web browser developed by Microsoft and included in the company's Windows operating system.

Opera

It is a web browser developed by Opera Software.

Safari

It is a web browser included with the OS X and iOS operating systems and developed by Apple.

Server

It is both a running instance of some software that is capable of accepting requests from clients, and the computer that executes such software.

Hyperlink

It present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources.

Incognito mode

Privacy mode or "private browsing" or "incognito mode" is a privacy feature in some web browsers to disable browsing history and the web cache.

Cookies

Small text files that are sent to your computer from certain websites. They track your behaviour and transactions.

Title bar

The text that appears at the top of the browser window.

Pop-up ad

These are often forms of online advertising on the World Wide Web intended to attract web traffic or capture email addresses.

Address Field

This input box displays the address, or URL, of the webpage you are viewing.

Banner

This is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web delivered by an ad server. This form of online advertising entails embedding an advertisement into a web page.

Browsing history

This refers to the list of web pages a user has visited recently—and associated data such as page title and time of visit—which is recorded by web browser software as standard for a certain period of time.

Mosaic

is a discontinued early web browser. It has been credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. Mosaic was also the first browser to display images inline with text instead of displaying images in a separate window

Erwise

is a discontinued pioneering web browser, and the first commonly available with a graphical user interface. Released in April 1992, the browser was written for Unix computers running X and used the W3 common access library.

Opera Mini

is a web browser designed primarily for mobile phones, smartphones and personal digital assistants.

Browser wars

is competition for dominance in the usage share of web browsers. The first browser war was Microsoft's Internet Explorer against Netscape's Navigator during the late 1990s.

Home page

is generally the first page a visitor navigating to a website from a search engine will see, and may also serve as a landing page to attract the attention of visitors.

Ad blocking

or ad filtering is removing or altering advertising content in a webpage.


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