Browser

A report submitted to

UKA TARSADIA UNIVERSITY

in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of

Diploma
in
Information Technology

By
Patel Dhruv
(201902100710026)
Patel Zeel
(201902100710030)

Guided by
Vishwani Patel

Department of Computer Engineering & Information Technology

Diwaliba Polytechnic
Bardoli, Surat
November, 2019
 ABSTRACT

Alternatively referred to as a web browser or Internet browser, a browser is a soft-

ware program to present and explore content on the World Wide Web. These pieces of
content, including pictures, videos, and web pages, are connected using hyperlinks and
classified with URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers). This page is an example of a web
page that can be viewed using a browser.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT iii

LIST OF TABLES v

LIST OF FIGURES vi

1 Introduction vii
1.1 Web Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

1.1.1 Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

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 LIST OF TABLES

1.1 Usage share of web browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii

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 LIST OF FIGURES

1.1 Fireox[2] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix

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 Chapter 1

Introduction

A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for access-

ing information on the World Wide Web. When a user requests a particular website,
the web browser retrieves the necessary content from a web server and then displays
the resulting web page on the user’s device.
A web browser is not the same thing as a search engine, though the two are often
confused.[1][2] For a user, a search engine is just a website, such as Google Search,
Bing, or DuckDuckGo, that stores searchable data about other websites. However, to
connect to a website’s server and display its web pages, a user must have a web browser
installe.

1.1 Web Browser

The purpose of a web browser is to fetch information resources from the Web and
display them on a user’s device.
This process begins when the user inputs a Uniform Resource Locator (URL),
such as https://en.wikipedia.org/, into the browser. Virtually all URLs on the Web
start with either http: or https: which means the browser will retrieve them with
the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. In the case of https:, the communication between
the browser and the web server is encrypted for the purposes of security and privacy.
Another URL prefix is file: which is used to display local files already stored on the
user’s device..

1.1.1 Browser
The primary function of a web browser is to render HTML, the code used to design
or ”mark up” webpages. Each time a browser loads a web page, it processes the
HTML, which may include text, links, and references to images and other items, such

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as cascading style sheets and JavaScript functions. The browser processes these items,
then renders them in the browser window[3].

Table 1.1: Usage share of web browser

Google Chrome 72.4%

Mozilla firefox 9.1%
Internet Explorer 5.4%
Safari 5.1%
Microsoft Edge 4.0%
Opera 2.2%
Uc Browser 0.55%
Maxthon 0.08%
Pale Moon 0.02%
SeaMonkey 0.02%

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Figure 1.1: Fireox[2]

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 References

[1] https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/b/browser.htm.

[2] https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web browser.

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