Jan's Computer Basics:2-8 Browser

Computer Basics

2 - Applications: Browser

Globe - connections over the whole world An Internet browser is a program that lets you navigate the World Wide Web or view HTML pages on a CD or on your hard disk. [It's what you are using to view this page!]

A browser displays web pages, keeps track of where you've been, and remembers the places you want to return to.

More information is available over the Internet every day, and more tasks can be done. You can buy books, check on your bank account, buy and sell stocks, even order pizza over the Internet. But you have to have a browser to do it.

Internet Explorer is by far the most popular browser, though there are many others around. Netscape was once the dominant browser. Mozilla FireFox has evolved from Netscape and has become the favorite of many.

Purpose:	Navigating the Internet
Major Advantage:	Can display graphics, which older internet applications don't Keeps a list of places you want to return to. Shows HTML pages, which can include links to other pages and files for quick access.

For more on using a browser, see the section Working with the Web: Browser Basics

Where you are: JegsWorks > Lessons > Computer Basics
	1. Computer Types
	2. Applications Intro Word Processing Desktop Publishing Spreadsheet Database Graphics Presentations Communications Browser Web Pages Email Project Management PIM Integrated & Suites Quiz
	3. Input
	4. Processing
	5. Output
	6. Storage
	7. Computer to Computer
	8. System Software
	9. Programming

	10. What You See
	11. Hands On!
	12. On Your Own

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2008