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A
web browser
is a
computer program
application for reading pages of the
World Wide Web
. Since the late 1990s, most
personal computers
and
mobile phones
and other
mobile devices
have a browser.
Web browsers are used by people to find and look at
websites
on the
Internet
. The first web browser was created in 1990. Many web browsers are available for free. All web browsers can go to websites but each browser has good things and bad things about it. For example, some browsers focus on
data security
and keeping computers safe from
viruses
. Other browsers are made so that web pages appear on-screen faster.
Some popular web browsers include:
Other browsers are:
A
webpage
is one page of a
website
. Every web page has a
web address
.
A web browser goes to a web page using a web address. It downloads the
HTML
file stored at that address. Its
browser engine
then reads and translates the HTML file. The browser will then show the webpage on the screen as text,
images
and clickable
links
.