A web browser (or just browser) is an application program for reading web pages of hypertext and other information from the World Wide Web (WWW). The browser acts as a client to a remote web server, providing the means to view the contents of nodes (or pages) and of navigating from one node to another.^[1]

Browsers for Mac and Apple platforms

• Safari — Apple's current default browser
• NCSA Mosaic — the first publicly distributed browser.
• Netscape — abandoned in favor of the Mozilla project.
• Firefox — the Mozilla project's new browser.
• Chrome — Google's current default browser.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer — discontinued, last version for Mac was v. 5.2.1.
• Microsoft Edge — Microsoft's current default browser.
• iCab
• OmniWeb
• Opera

No command-line browsers, such as Links, Lynx, or w3m, come pre-installed.

References

External links

• Browser at Computer Hope
• Web browser at Wikipedia

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