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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
browser
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
web browser
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ My browser really is incredibly slow.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All you have to do is start up your Web browser.
▪ Eric Hahn will replace Marc Andreessen, the 26-year-old wonder boy who helped to write the Mosaic browser.
▪ If that's still too heavy, Netscape 2.Ox is better than no browser at all.
▪ The end user must have an Internet browser capable of accepting and playing the applet.
▪ To understand what a plug-in is, try thinking of your browser as a vacuum cleaner.
▪ With many browsers and server programs available, Netscape will lose its dominant position in the business.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Browser

Browser \Brows"er\ (brouz"[~e]r), n.

  1. An animal that browses.

  2. (Computers) a computer program that permits the user to view multiple electronic documents in a flexible sequence by the process of activating hypertext ``buttons'' within one document, which serves as a reference to the location of related document. The term is currently (late 1990's) used mostly for programs which allow traversing hypertext paths in documents on the internet. A typical browser will permit the user to easily reverse direction, and view again documents previously accessed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
browser

1845, "animal which browses," agent noun from browse (v.). In the computer sense by 1982.\n\nThe first browser was invented at PARC by Larry Tesler, now a designer at Apple Computer. Tesler's first Smalltalk browser was a tree-structured device. It enabled programmers to hunt quickly for items in a Smalltalk dictionary.

["InfoWorld" magazine, vol. v., no. 4, Jan. 24, 1983]

Wiktionary
browser

n. 1 A person or animal who browses. 2 A person who, while shopping, purchases nothing. 3 (context computing English) A web browser.

WordNet
browser
  1. n. a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular

  2. a program used to view HTML documents [syn: web browser]

Wikipedia
Browser

Browse, browser or browsing may refer to:

Browser
  • Web browser, used to access the World Wide Web
  • Hardware browser, for displaying under the server or network hardware devices, and allows users to interact with the hardware of these tools. used to sense, detect, display and control hardware devices in the network.
  • File browser, also known as a file manager, used to manage files and related objects
  • Help browser, for reading online help
  • Browser service, a feature of Microsoft Windows to let users browse and locate shared resources in neighboring computers
  • Code browser, for navigating source code
Browse
  • Browse Island, Australia
  • Browse LNG, Australian liquefied natural gas plant project
Browsing
  • Browsing, a kind of orienting strategy in animals and human beings
  • Browsing (herbivory), a type of feeding behavior in herbivores

Usage examples of "browser".

Smiling, she thrusts it so hard at Bonny that it clicks open a browser window in her left arm.

So as he and Waco rode along, Longarm was just as glad to see the Flint Hills offered few temptations to anything but cows, although back in the Shining Times of the Kansa he suspected the pronghorn and other browsers had kept down the encroaching brush a bit better.

Nonetheless, the life of cool season plants assist in feeding the browsers and grass eaters during the cold winter months and forbs such as filaree and the cool season perennial grasses help cover the exposed soil when other plants have died back because of the cold.

I imitated a browser, leafing through big glassine pages on a countertop easel, looking at incredibly florid stamps from improbable countries, like Ajman, Zambia, and Bangladesh.

Even browsers, among the most user friendly applications ever -are not sufficiently so.

Future browsers will be akin to catalogues, very much like the applications used in modern day libraries.

E-mail applications are available as freeware and are included in all browsers.

Microsoft continues to incorporate previously independent applications in its browsers - a behaviour which led to the 1999 anti-trust lawsuit against it.

This will be supported by multi-terrabyte databases, advanced data browsers, and query managers, and will be linked to the Joint Tactical Internet.

Browsers are now free products and can be downloaded from the Internet.

RealNames implemented this approach and its proprietary software is now incorporated in most browsers.

Hear peddlers hail and rave indiscreetly about their wares to passers-by with the purpose of making buyers out of browsers.

His weaponry included the famous SATAN program (the Security Administer Tool for Analyzing Networks, used by both sysadmins and hackers to check the "hackability" of computer networks), several breaking and entering programs that would let him grab root access on various types of machines and networks, a custom-made Web browser and newsreader, a cloaking program to hide his presence while he was in someone else's computer and which would delete traces of his activities when he logged off, sniffer programs that would "sniff out" - find - user-names, passwords and other helpful information on the Net or in someone's computer, a communications program to send that data back to him, encryption programs and lists of hacker Web sites and anonymizer sites (commercial services that would in effect "launder" e-mails and messages so that the recipient couldn't trace Gillette).

His weaponry included the famous SATAN program (the Security Administer Tool for Analyzing Networks, used by both sysadmins and hackers to check the “hackability” of computer networks), several breaking and entering programs that would let him grab root access on various types of machines and networks, a custom-made Web browser and newsreader, a cloaking program to hide his presence while he was in someone else’s computer and which would delete traces of his activities when he logged off, sniffer programs that would “sniff out” – find – user-names, passwords and other helpful information on the Net or in someone’s computer, a communications program to send that data back to him, encryption programs and lists of hacker Web sites and anonymizer sites (commercial services that would in effect “launder” e-mails and messages so that the recipient couldn’t trace Gillette).

She logged on to the Internet via an anonymizer browser account rather than her regular ISP account.