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Browsers V: I’ve just bought an internet connection kit and when I installed it, it asked me which browser I wanted to use. But what exactly is a browser? H: If you’re looking for a good book to read, you may want to browse in the bookshop. E: …if you’re looking for something nice to wear you may want to browse in a clothes shop… H: If you’ve just bought a book – you might want to browse through it… E: …and if you are in that shop already, you’re probably browsing through lots of clothes now… H: …in which case you are a browser. E: But in the computer era… H: …when you say a ‘browser’, you usually mean a type of computer program which enables you to search for and view certain type of computer information. For example, on the world wide web, we use a program called a web browser to search for and view web pages. So, browsing the web is similar to browsing through magazines or books in a bookshop. E: It’s nothing like real browsing, especially in a clothes shop. The default browser is the browser, which is chosen automatically for you when you connect to the internet. But if you don’t like it – or – if you’re having problems with it – you can always choose to use another browser. Different browsers can display various kinds of internet resources. For example, a text-based browser can only display text. But common browsers such as Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer can all handle sound, graphics and video, in addition to text. But remember, technology is changing fast. If you have an older version of the browser, there may be things you can’t see, such as animated images.
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