What is browser?

Browser is a software application that is used to reproduce the documents and web hipermediya navigation, display and interact with text, images, video, music, games and other information. Web browsers allow the user easy access to information. Browsers use HTML format for reproduction, because the emergence of the web site may be different in different browsers. Although browsers are typically used to access the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by Web servers in private networks or content in file systems.

Web Browser history dates from the end of the 1980's. The introduction of NCSA Mosaic Web browser in 1993, is one of the first graphical web browsers - led to the explosion in web applications and the creation of the Netscape browser in 1994, which quickly became the most popular browser used on that time.

Microsoft responded to the Internet Explorer browser in 1995. Package Windows, Internet Explorer long dominions of the market in operating systems.

In 1998, Netscape began to evolve - in an attempt to razbotva competitive environment browser open source, which rapidly develops Firefox became one of the leaders, because many improvements, innovation and rationalization, including speed, convenience and security particularly and privacy of users compared to Internet Explorer.

Opera debut in 1996, although it has not achieved widespread use, is often preferred.

Apple Safari was released in January 2003. Since February 2009, it is a dominant of Apple-based web browser.

The newest major player in the browser market is Google Chrome, implemented in September 2008.