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A browser is a program that downloads HTML documents, images, and other content and renders it all nicely for the user to look at. And feel free to come up with a better definition.

Examples include [Mozilla] (see MozillaNotes), InternetExplorer, Konqueror, Opera, [Firebird|FirebirdBrowser],
[lynx|lynx(1)]... the list is endless.

Opera has the least broken implementation of [CSS] (which doesn't necessarily say much) and Konqueror has the most broken one. InternetExplorer just tends to be... idiosyncratic in its interpretation of the standard. (Sigh.)

The first graphical WebBrowser (from ca. 1992?) was NCSA [Mosaic].

'' Under X on Linux I recommend Mozilla, on a Linux console I recommend lynx(1) or links(1), depending on your tastes (and resolution). --PerryLorier ''

'' For the console, I'd actually seriously consider w3m(1) - it basically renders the page as a graphical browser would, within the constraints of a terminal. Also, nowadays, [Firebird|FirebirdBrowser] would be a serious option for browsing under X. It's also going to entirely replace "!SeaMonkey" (the [Mozilla] browser's project name), of which 1.5 is slated to be the last release. --AristotlePagaltzis''

'' I read somewhere that 1.4 was going to be the last !SeaMonkey release.... -- AlastairPorter''

'' 1.5 alpha is in the works and is definitely !SeaMonkey offspring. So apparently that's the last release. --AristotlePagaltzis''

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