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What is a browser

You are standing before the ocean and you would like to explore it to see what it has to offer, but you can’t swim. The solution is a boat. Internet is the ocean and a browser is the boat.

A browser is a piece of software that can access the World Wide Web, such as Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Microsoft edge. When a user visits a website the browser takes the content from the server and then displays it to the user.

Browsers usually have a search bar, the possibility to open multiple pages in various tabs and other characteristics of the user interface which help the search.