browser

Etymology

browse + -er

noun

  1. A person or animal who browses.
    Coordinate term: grazer
  2. A person who examines goods for sale but purchases nothing.
  3. (computing) A web browser.
    A program which provides access to the hypertext world we call a browser.] [1990-11-12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

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