Web Browser Short Cut Keys
A web
browser (commonly referred to
as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting and
traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.
An information resource is
identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page,
image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users
easily to navigate their browsers to related resources.
Although browsers are primarily intended to use
the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or files in file systems.
In 1993, browser software was further innovated by Marc
Andreessen with the
release of Mosaic (later Netscape),
"the world's first popular browser", which made the World Wide Web
system easy to use and more accessible to the average person. And reesen's
browser sparked the internet boom of the 1990s.The introduction of Mosaic in
1993 – one of the first graphical web browsers – led to an explosion in web
use. Andreessen, the leader of the Mosaic team at NCSA, soon started his own
company, named Netscape, and
released the Mosaic-influenced Netscape Navigator in 1994, which quickly became
the world's most popular browser, accounting for 90% of all web use at its peak
(see usage share of web browsers
Available web browsers range in features from
minimal, text-based user interfaces with bare-bones support for HTML to rich
user interfaces supporting a wide variety of file formats and protocols.
Browsers which include additional components to support e-mail,Usenet news,
and Internet Relay Chat (IRC), are sometimes referred to as
"Internet suites"
rather than merely "web browsers".
All major web browsers allow the user to open multiple information
resources at the same time, either in different browser windows or in different tabs of the same window. Major browsers
also include pop-up blockers to prevent unwanted windows from
"popping up" without the user's consent
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