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A web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music, games and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. Text and images on a Web page can contain hyperlinks to other Web pages at the same or different website. Web browsers allow a user to quickly and easily access information provided on many Web pages at many websites by traversing these links. Web browsers format HTML information for display, so the appearance of a Web page may differ between browsers.

Some of the Web browsers currently available for personal computers with there worldwide usage share.The usage share of web browsers described in this chart. Source from Net Applications

Internet Explorer (71.11%)

Mozilla Firefox (20.06%)

Safari (6.62%)

Opera (0.75%)

Netscape (0.46%)

Chrome (0.74%)

Other (0.24%)