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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Browser \Brows"er\ (brouz"[~e]r), n. An animal that browses. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: browser n : a program used to view HTML documents [syn: {web browser}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: browser n. A program specifically designed to help users view and navigate hypertext, on-line documentation, or a database. While this general sense has been present in jargon for a long time, the proliferation of browsers for the World Wide Web after 1992 has made it much more popular and provided a central or default techspeak meaning of the word previously lacking in hacker usage. Nowadays, if someone mentions using a `browser' without qualification, one may assume it is a Web browser. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: browserA program which allows a person to read {hypertext}. The browser gives some means of viewing the contents of {nodes} (or "pages") and of {navigating} from one node to another. {Netscape Navigator}, {NCSA} {Mosaic}, {Lynx}, and {W3} are examples for browsers for the {World-Wide Web}. They act as {clients} to remote {web servers}. (1996-05-31)
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