Do you Know What is a Web Browser ?

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Hello Friends.,[br][br]Welcome to the Xclub Tech Information!!![br][br][img src="/storage/emulated/0/Download/web_browser85406821-5804eac13df78cbc287f5e66.webp"][br][br][br]What Is a Web Browser?[br][br]You use web browsers every day, but do you know what they are?[br][br]Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines a web browser as "a computer program used for accessing sites or information on a network (such as the World Wide Web). " This is a simple, yet accurate description. A web browser 'talks' to a server and asks it for the pages you want to see.[br][br][br]How a Browser Retrieves a Web Page[br]The browser application retrieves (or fetches) code, usually written in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and other computer languages, from a web server. Then, it interprets this code and displays it as a web page for you to view. In most cases, user interaction is needed to tell the browser what website or specific web page you want to see. Using the browser's address bar is one way to do this.[br][br]The web address, or URL (Uniform Resource Locator), that you type into the address bar tells the browser where to obtain a page or pages from. For example, let's say that you typed the following URL into the address bar: http://www.lifewire.com. That's the home page of Lifewire.com.[br][br]The browser looks at this particular URL in two main sections. The first is the protocol — the http:// part. HTTP, which stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the standard protocol used to request and transmit files on the Internet, most web pages and their respective components. Because the browser now knows that the protocol is HTTP, it knows how to interpret everything located to the right of the forward slashes.[br][br]The browser looks at www.lifewire.com — the domain name — which tells the browser the location of the web server it needs to retrieve the page from. Many browsers no longer require the protocol to be specified when accessing a web page. This means that typing www.lifewire.com or even just lifewire.com is usually sufficient. You'll often see additional parameters at the end, which help to further pinpoint the location — typically, particular pages within a website.[br][br][br]Once the browser reaches this web server, it retrieves, interprets, and renders the page in the main window for you to view. The process happens behind the scenes, typically in a matter of seconds.[br][br]Popular Web Browsers[br][br]Web browsers come in many different flavors, each with their own nuances. All the best-known ones are free, and each has its own particular set of options governing privacy, security, interface, shortcuts, and other variables. The main reason a person uses any browser is the same, however: to view web pages on the Internet, similar to the way you are viewing this article right now. You probably have heard of the most popular web browsers:[br][br]Google Chrome[br]Mozilla Firefox[br]Microsoft Edge[br]Opera[br]Many others exist, however. In addition to the big players, try these out to see if any fits your browsing style:[br][br]Maxthon[br]Vivaldi[br]Brave[br]Microsoft's Internet Explorer, once the go-to in browsers, has been discontinued, but the developers still maintain the most recent version.[br][br]Thank you all...

Dinesh Vishwakarma

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sakhr68

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