web browser

Also known as WWW browser, Web client, WWW client, W3 browser, W3 client, browser, Internet browser

software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web

AI overview

A web browser is a software application that lets you find, view, and navigate through information and websites on the internet. It matters because it's the primary tool that allows you to access and interact with the vast majority of online content and services that billions of people rely on daily.

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Research

3,589 papers

The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2025 update.Nucleic acids research · 2025
Ontoclick: a web browser extension to facilitate biomedical knowledge curation.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2021
Useful Web Resources.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2016
Panache: a web browser-based viewer for linearized pangenomes.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2021
SRplot: A free online platform for data visualization and graphing.PloS one · 2023

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Wikidata facts

Image: Wiki Smartphones.jpg
Has use: web navigation

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history of topic: history of the web browser
topic has template: Template:Infobox web browser
Commons category: Web browsers
topic's main category: Category:Web browsers
name in kana: ウェブブラウザ
has list: list of web browsers
opposite of: web server
uses: browser extension
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10003302
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
P13411: francium
time of discovery or invention: 1990-12-20
discoverer or inventor: Tim Berners-Lee

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Encyclopedic overview

A web browser (Safari) displaying the Wikipedia web page

A web browser, often abbreviated as 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 can also display content stored locally on the user's device.

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