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Last modified: Monday, May 05, 2008  

Short for Web browser, a software application used to locate and display Web pages. The two most popular browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Firefox. Both of these are graphical browsers, which means that they can display graphics as well as text. In addition, most modern browsers can present multimedia information, including sound and video, though they require plug-ins for some formats.

See "All About Web Browsers" in Webopedia's Quick Reference Section.
Also see  What Do Temporary Internet Files Do? " and All About Cookies and You in the "Did You Know..." section of Webopedia.

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