Browser
noun
A software application used to locate, retrieve and display content on the World Wide Web, including Web pages, images, video and other files.
Google Chrome is a popular web browser.
Often appears as...
- web browser
- internet browser
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Technical
noun
An animal that eats leaves, twigs, and other roughage as its primary food source.
Cows and goats are browsers rather than grazers.
Often appears as...
- a herd of browsers
- browsers grazing
noun
A person who looks casually through books, magazines, clothes etc. in a store without intending to buy anything.
There were a few browsers in the book store.
Often appears as...
- window browser
- casual browser
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Colloquial
noun
A software application used to locate, retrieve and display content on the World Wide Web, including Web pages, images, video and other files.
Google Chrome is a popular web browser.
Often appears as...
- web browser
- internet browser
Usage tips
Technical
noun
An animal that eats leaves, twigs, and other roughage as its primary food source.
Cows and goats are browsers rather than grazers.
Often appears as...
- a herd of browsers
- browsers grazing
noun
A person who looks casually through books, magazines, clothes etc. in a store without intending to buy anything.
There were a few browsers in the book store.
Often appears as...
- window browser
- casual browser
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Tech Usage
Primarily a term for technology, referring to software to access the internet.
I installed a new browser to improve my online experience.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Search Engine
Don't confuse 'browser' with 'search engine'; browsers display, search engines find.
I used my browser to go to the search engine's webpage.
Pro Tip 3/3Ubiquitous Tool
A browser is a common tool in daily computing, essential for internet access.
Can you open the browser and check your email?
Pro Tip 1/3Tech Usage
Primarily a term for technology, referring to software to access the internet.
I installed a new browser to improve my online experience.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Search Engine
Don't confuse 'browser' with 'search engine'; browsers display, search engines find.
I used my browser to go to the search engine's webpage.
Pro Tip 3/3Ubiquitous Tool
A browser is a common tool in daily computing, essential for internet access.
Can you open the browser and check your email?
Pro Tip 1/3Tech Usage
Primarily a term for technology, referring to software to access the internet.
I installed a new browser to improve my online experience.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Search Engine
Don't confuse 'browser' with 'search engine'; browsers display, search engines find.
I used my browser to go to the search engine's webpage.
Pro Tip 3/3Ubiquitous Tool
A browser is a common tool in daily computing, essential for internet access.
Can you open the browser and check your email?
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Amber Case: We are all...
have compressed because of this. You can stand on one side of the world, whisper something and be heard on the other. One of the other ideas that comes around is that you have a different type of time on every single device that you use. Every single browser tab gives you a different type of time. And because of that, you start to dig around
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The Rise of Personal...
my mom can go to her computer, open up a browser and jack into a little robot. And as grandma-bot, she can now play, really play, with my sons, with her grandsons, in the real world with his real toys. I could imagine grandmothers being able to do social-plays
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Internet 101 PIPE National...
this shift, along with the rise of personal computers, the world wide web, and web browsers, allowed the general public to access the internet for the very first time. Today, computers, smart phones, televisions, video game consoles, and other devices,
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How better tech could...
so it would actually work? Imagine you gave this different premium shelf space on app stores. Imagine you had web browsers that helped route you to these kinds of design products. Can you imagine how exciting it would be to live and create that world?
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How the mysterious dark...
using various privacy-enhancing tools. There are now between two and three million daily users of the Tor browser, the majority of which use is perfectly legitimate, sometimes even mundane. And there are hundreds of activists around the world
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Tracking the trackers -...
consumer protection that's almost entirely naked so let me expose this lurking industry a little bit further the visualization you see forming behind me is called collusion and it's an experimental browser add-on that you can install in
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What happens in your...
everybody watching online and their browser history into a place where not even the most intimate of encounters have been my throat. And to help me do that, I'd like to introduce to the stage a very specialist guest
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A powerful way to...
The modern world seems to present us with a choice. If we're not going to fast-twitch from browser window to browser window, we have to live like a hermit, focus on one thing to the exclusion of everything else.
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Fake videos of real...
automatically, right in the browser. Despite all this, though, fake videos could do a lot of damage, even before anyone has a chance to verify, so it's very important that we make everyone aware
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Enthusiasm and design PIPE...
the actual final version so encourage you to check it out so it's just a free online site it's connected China traders com runs on browser runs on a tablet lots of fun and you know just a really
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Amber Case: We are all...
have compressed because of this. You can stand on one side of the world, whisper something and be heard on the other. One of the other ideas that comes around is that you have a different type of time on every single device that you use. Every single browser tab gives you a different type of time. And because of that, you start to dig around
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The Rise of Personal...
my mom can go to her computer, open up a browser and jack into a little robot. And as grandma-bot, she can now play, really play, with my sons, with her grandsons, in the real world with his real toys. I could imagine grandmothers being able to do social-plays
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Internet 101 PIPE National...
this shift, along with the rise of personal computers, the world wide web, and web browsers, allowed the general public to access the internet for the very first time. Today, computers, smart phones, televisions, video game consoles, and other devices,
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How better tech could...
so it would actually work? Imagine you gave this different premium shelf space on app stores. Imagine you had web browsers that helped route you to these kinds of design products. Can you imagine how exciting it would be to live and create that world?
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How the mysterious dark...
using various privacy-enhancing tools. There are now between two and three million daily users of the Tor browser, the majority of which use is perfectly legitimate, sometimes even mundane. And there are hundreds of activists around the world
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Tracking the trackers -...
consumer protection that's almost entirely naked so let me expose this lurking industry a little bit further the visualization you see forming behind me is called collusion and it's an experimental browser add-on that you can install in
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What happens in your...
everybody watching online and their browser history into a place where not even the most intimate of encounters have been my throat. And to help me do that, I'd like to introduce to the stage a very specialist guest
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A powerful way to...
The modern world seems to present us with a choice. If we're not going to fast-twitch from browser window to browser window, we have to live like a hermit, focus on one thing to the exclusion of everything else.
Video examples
Fake videos of real...
automatically, right in the browser. Despite all this, though, fake videos could do a lot of damage, even before anyone has a chance to verify, so it's very important that we make everyone aware
Video examples
Enthusiasm and design PIPE...
the actual final version so encourage you to check it out so it's just a free online site it's connected China traders com runs on browser runs on a tablet lots of fun and you know just a really
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Jeffrey Zeldman
American Businessman
We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.
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Om Malik
Indian Writer
While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that.
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Sundar Pichai
Indian Businessman
Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.
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Mitchell Baker
American Businesswoman
People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.
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Chad Hurley
American Businessman
People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?
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Steve Wozniak
American Businessman
I have a calendar life that is complicated, so I use BusyCal and Google Calendar. I keep two different browsers open to avoid some confusion.
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Reed Hastings
American Businessman
Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.
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Kent Beck
American Businessman
Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.
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Niklas Zennstrom
Swedish Scientist
If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.
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Bill Griffith
American Cartoonist
I just became one with my browser software.
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Jeffrey Zeldman
American Businessman
We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.
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Om Malik
Indian Writer
While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that.
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Sundar Pichai
Indian Businessman
Google search was important - one of the most important applications ever on the Web. People accessed everything through a browser, and for us it was important for making sure we had an option there.
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Mitchell Baker
American Businesswoman
People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.
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Chad Hurley
American Businessman
People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?
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Steve Wozniak
American Businessman
I have a calendar life that is complicated, so I use BusyCal and Google Calendar. I keep two different browsers open to avoid some confusion.
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Reed Hastings
American Businessman
Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.
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Kent Beck
American Businessman
Whether you draw diagrams that generate code or you type at a browser, you are coding.
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Niklas Zennstrom
Swedish Scientist
If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.
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Bill Griffith
American Cartoonist
I just became one with my browser software.
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