what is web browsers?

• as you know,millions of computers are connected to the internet.these computers have billions of documents on the almost the same number of website.how do we retrive the required information from these site? the web browser programs play avery important role in displaying the contents of web sites and in using the other features such as e-mail, newsgroups chating and etc.
• internet explorer, a companion program of windows is a popular web browser.netscape is another popular web browser.in this section, we shall discuss the salient features of internet explorer. even if you are using some other browsers,most of the discussion will also be applicable to that program.