1. Web Browser presentation Name/ Hassan AL-Abdulmohsen
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2. What is Web Browser? A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web
History of web browser:
The first web browser invented in 1990 by Tim Burner Lee called (World Wide Web).
In 1993, browser software innovated by Marc Andreessen with release of NetScape. 2

3. Popular web browsers Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Mozilla’s Firefox Apple’s Safari Opera Software’s Opera Connecting to the Internet Computer + web browser software + ISP = Internet access - Computer must have modem or network card - Modem - hardware and converts data to audio tones and transmits the data over phone lines - Network card or network interface card (NIC) - hardware that allows a computer to connect to the Internet through a network or a high-speed Internet connection, Internet Service Provider (ISP) - connects computers to the Internet - Wireless access - Popular commercial ISPs 3

4. Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 Features
Web browser
Software that allows the user to view certain types of Internet files in an interactive environment
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
Each web page on the Internet has unique URL
Usually begin with http­:// or
Hyperlinks
Visual elements on web pages that when clicked, load a specified web document
Images and text
Can reference other web pages, addresses, files and more
Download files
Tabbed Browsing
Allows the user to browse multiple pages without many windows
Page Organization
Using the History Feature
List of previously visited URLs in chronological order 4

5. Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 Features
AutoComplete
URLs from the history can be displayed in a drop-down list when a user types a URL into the Address bar
Off-Line Browsing
Web pages can be saved directly to the computer’s hard drive for off-line browsing
Not connected to the Internet
Downloads
Files from the Internet may be copied to a computer’s hard drive
Applications
Plug-ins
Extensions
Viewing Source Code
Understand how the programmer created the page
Learn how to develop your own pages 5

6. Explorer 7 6 6

7. Firefox 2. 7 7

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