browser
browser (bro̵u′zər)
noun
- a person or thing that browses
- Comput. software designed to enable a user to access and display data that is on the World Wide Web
At the beginning of 2005, dozens of security-related problems continued to remain unpatched in Microsoft IE, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera Web browsers. According to Secunia, a security company tracking vulnerabilities in thousands of products, some of the existing vulnerabilities were rated as moderately critical to highly critical. For example, on February 24, 2005, accepting that millions of Firefox 1.0 browsers had been downloaded since the start of the year, the Mozilla Foundation released its first security update to Firefoxa number of patches meant to stop spoofing and phishing attacks and to stop bugs that were causing the browser to crash.
See Also: Code or Source Code; Internet; HTML (HyperText Markup Language); Programming Languages C, C++, Perl, and Java.
Possessives
- button: Use your browser's Back button to return to this page.
Preposition: with
- javascript: You must have a version 4 or above browser with JavaScript enabled ( look in the Options or Preferences of the browser ).
Adjective modifier
- text-only: The Royal Navy Community web site is designed to be usable with all graphical and text-only browsers, and screen readers.
- compliant: To make the code work with standard compliant browsers ( e.g.
- graphical: HTML forms Please note that these are suitable to be printed out only from a graphical browser.
- standards-compliant: If at all possible you should consider using a standards-compliant browser.
- compatible: Please click on the Compatible browsers link below for more information.
- text-based: Graphical time reports that still work on text-based browsers.
Modifies a noun
- window: The document will open in a new browser window.
- compatibility: Jan also has a browser compatibility chart for this demo on his page.
- plug-in: Using Chime Chime is a web browser plug-in based on the popular molecular viewer software, RasMol.
- toolbar: How to change your text size Internet Explorer Firefox AOL Users Internet Explorer First select ' View ' from your browser toolbar.
- setting: Should you wish you can disable cookies through the browser settings.
- plugin: If you need to install the Acrobat browser plugin, you can download it from the Adobe web site - click the link below.
Noun used with modifier
- web: You can set your web browser to refuse cookies.
- wap: Klondike WAP browser for Windows Internet Explorer type of interface.
- Internet: The text on your website is too small The text size on your internet browser needs to be reset.
- default: The default browser which you can start by typing in WWW in an xterm or terminal window is mozilla.
- speech: This plain text version of the page is designed for printing and use by speech browsers.
- genome: These files can be downloaded and viewed in the UCSC genome browser ( Mouse March 2005 ).
Browse dictionary entries near browser
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- brownstone
- brownshirt
- brownout
- Browning
- Brownie point
- brownie
- Brownian movement
