browser

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(thing) by suky (2.2 y) (print)   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:51:53
A program that takes files written in HTML and translates it into something you can view. The most common browsers are Netscape, Internet Explorer, Opera, and the text-only Lynx. Netscape and Internet Explorer compete head to head, causing the United State's Department of Justice to sue Microsoft
(thing) by Jargon (1.9 y) (print)   (I like it!) Fri Apr 28 2000 at 9:40:20

brown-paper-bag bug = B = BRS

browser n.

A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database. While this general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more popular and provided a central or default meaning of the word previously lacking in hacker usage. Nowadays, if someone mentions using a `browser' without qualification, one may assume it is a Web browser.

--Jargon File, autonoded by rescdsk.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) 2 C!s Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:15:42

Brows"er (?), n.

An animal that browses.

 

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