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Website Shortcut on Your Desktop reviewed by Web Webster This Webopedia guide will show you how to create a...
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Google, LLC is a technology corporation that offers Internet services, devices, and enterprise computing. Google was founded in 1998 by...
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An open source web server is a public-domain software designed to deliver web pages over the World Wide Web. Like...
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Fireball is a form of malware orchestrated by Rafotech, a Beijing-based digital marketing agency, that has infected up to 250...
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Responsive web design is an approach to building a website that considers the different types of devices that a visitor...
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A padlock (or lock) icon displayed in a web browser indicates a secure communication channel between the browser and the...
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Website spoofing refers to fraudulent websites that masquerade as legitimate sites by copying the design of the website as well...
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Microsoft Edge is the official name for a new and improved Web browser introduced in Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system...
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Project Spartan is the codename for a Web browser introduced in Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system that the company created...
Operation Clandestine Fox refers to a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) that would allow owners of malicious websites to gain...
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A new feature in the Google Chrome 21 browser that enables the browser to access a user’s webcam and microphone,...
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The successor to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 Web browser, Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) is integrated into the Windows 8 and...
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A complete, standalone operating system developed for the open Web with a primary focus as an open source mobile OS...
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A split-architecture Web browser that taps into Amazon s Web Services (AWS) cloud computing services to offer a faster, richer...
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Chromium and Chromium OS refer to a pair of open-source projects that power the Google Chrome Web browser and Google...
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Chromium refers to a pair of open-source projects that power the Google Chrome Web browser and Google Chrome OS. The...
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A Mozilla Labs project developed to remove and replace the traditional Web browser user interface with a more flexible platform...
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The Spinning Pinwheel of Death (SPoD) is Mac OS X s version of Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSoD). Officially...
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Webian Shell is an open source prototype full-screen Web browser you can use on any device that doesn’t need to...
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A “triple-engine” Web browser that contains the rendering engines used in Microsoft Internet Explorer (Trident), Mozilla Firefox (Gecko) and Google...
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Address bar spoofing is the result of malicious software where a user’s browser address bar is altered to force the...
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A term used to describe an Internet Explorer feature designed to close security holes. A Kill-Bit (also called killbit) is...
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A browser developed by HP that can be used to browse darknets. Veiled enables users to actually have their own...
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Chrome is short for the Google Chrome browser or the Google Chrome operating system. Choose a link below for a...
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The Google Chrome Operating System (Chrome OS) was announced by Google nine months after it released the Chrome browser. Google...
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The phrase used to describe a Web page that disables the browser’s back button and prevents the user from leaving...
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InPrivate Browsing is a feature in Internet Explorer that allows users to surf the Web without browsing history, temporary internet...
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A Web browser is actually a software application that runs on your Internet-connected computer. It allows you to view Web...
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A direct link to a specific function or feature within a Web page. While a browser bookmark takes you to...
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An extension to the FireFox Web browser that adds custom and personalized themes to the browser. There are two main...
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What is Google Chrome? Chrome is the name of the Web browser developed by Google Inc., that appeals to many...
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In Internet-enabled applications and services, an add-on manager is the term used to describe the management tab or section in...
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A term used to describe the products and services offered in the Google Docs and Spreadsheets services.
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An open source Web browser editor that authors can use to create and update documents on the Web. Amaya offers...
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Abbreviated as XHR, XMLHttpRequest is a set of APIs that can be used by Web browser scripting languages, such as...
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A microbrowser, also called a mobile browser or mini-browser. It is a type of browser designed to be used on...
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Lightweight browser is the term used to describe a Web browser that forgoes support of all Web standards in favor...
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Firefox is a free, open source Web browser for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It is based on the...
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Acronym for Browser Helper Object. A Browser Helper Object is a DLL that allows developers to customize and control Internet...
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A kiosk browser is a more secure and customizable Internet web browser. Kiosk browsers are of use to public Internet...
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Tabbed browsing is a relatively new feature found in some Web browsers. Tabbed browsing is a function of some Web...
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The personal Internet communicator (PIC) is an affordable consumer device designed to provide managed Internet access for people in global,...
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Short for Extensible Markup Language Hypertext Transfer Protocol, a set of APIs that enables XML, HTML or binary data to...
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An element of a graphical user interface that can be changed to alter the look of the interface without affecting...
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(n.) The last-known or current status of an application or a process. The terms maintaining state and/or managing state refer...
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A Web browser developed in 1994 by Norwegian company Telenor. Opera is boasted as being the speediest and most standards-compliant...
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A feature of Windows that began in Windows 98 that allows the user to store Web content on the desktop....
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Refers to content on a Web site that is either interactive, such as Internet polls or opt-in features, or dynamic,...
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On the Internet, a walled garden refers to a browsing environment that controls the information and Web sites the user...
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A technique that forces a user to remain on a specific Web site by not allowing the user to leave...
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Hotlist is a list of frequently accessed documents. The term is often used to describe a list of Web pages...
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The original name for Netscape’s browser, now called Navigator. Some people claim that the term is a contraction of Mosaic...
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ActiveX control is a control using Microsoft ActiveX technologies. An ActiveX control can be automatically downloaded and executed by a...
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Founded in 1975 by Paul Allen and Bill Gates, Microsoft Corporation is one of the largest and most influential companies...
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A technology developed by Macromedia, Inc. that enables Web pages to include multimedia objects. To create a shockwave object, you...
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(v) To mark a document or a specific place in a document for later retrieval. Nearly all Web browsers support...
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(n.) A hardware or software module that adds a specific feature or service to a larger system. The idea is...
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Navigator is the name of Netscape Communication’s popular Web browser. There are many versions of Navigator, and it runs on...
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Netscape Communications was a popular computer services company in the 1990s that offered a web browser, Navigator. It was originally...
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A Web browser that made its debut in 1995 as Microsoft’s response to Netscape, one of the first graphical-based Web...
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A program installed to be memory resident so that you can always execute it by pressing a special key, called...
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Phoenix Corporation one of the largest producers of BIOS firmware for IBM PC clones.
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An application that simplifies accessing documents on the World Wide Web. Originally produced by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications...
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(1) In graphics and desktop publishing applications, a rectangular area in which textor graphics can appear. (2) In communications, a...
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(1) In database systems, browse means to view data. Many database systems support a special browse mode , in which...