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      Internet Explorer will keep a history of the websites you have visited. They are viewable by date, by frequency of visits, by order visited, or alphabetically by site. Here are some tips on changing the amount of days Internet Explorer keeps history. more »

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      A cookie is a string of information that is sent to your computer from each website that you visit. Cookies are harmless. Why would you want to delete them? They can store information such as user name, IP address, password, email address, shopping cart items and any strings of information that can be related to your identity.... more »

    • How to Remove Auto Fill-in

      Auto fill-in is a feature in Internet Explorer that will automatically store all information you enter in the web address bar, forms and user names and passwords. This feature can save you time when filling out web forms and help you remember passwords. But it can also be a security risk if multiple people use the same computer.... more »

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      Whenever you visit a website, Internet Explorer makes a copy of the web page and saves its content as a temporary file on your hard drive. These are all placed a Temporary Internet File folder. The purpose of this process is to enable your PC to load and display web pages that you visit a lot much faster. Whenever you visit a page... more »

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      A cookie is a string of information that is sent to your computer from each website that you visit. Cookies are harmless. Why would you want to delete them then? The reason you would want to delete cookies from your computer is that they can store information such as user name, IP address, password, email address, shopping cart items... more »

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    Web browser

    A Web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily navigate their browsers to related resources.

    Although browsers are primarily intended to access the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by Web servers in private networks or files in file systems.

    The major web browsers are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and Opera for Windows and Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Opera for Macintosh.

    History

    The history of the web browser dates back to the late 1980s, when a variety of technologies laid the foundation for the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991. That browser brought together a variety of existing and new software and hardware technologies.

    The introduction of the NCSA Mosaic web browser in 1993 – one of the first graphical web browsers – led to an explosion in web use. Marc Andreessen, the leader of the Mosaic team at NCSA, soon started his own company, named Netscape, and released the Mosaic-influenced Netscape Navigator in 1994, which quickly became the worlds most popular browser, accounting for 90% of all web use at its peak (see usage share of web browsers).

    Microsoft responded with its browser Internet Explorer in 1995 (also heavily influenced by Mosaic), initiating the industrys first browser war. By bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, Microsoft was able to leverage its dominance in the operating system market to take over the web browser market; Internet Explorer usage share peaked at over 95% by 2002."searchenginejournal.com">http://www.searchenginejournal.com/mozilla-firefox-internet-browser-market-share-gains-to-74/1082/ Internet Explorer has 65% brow read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web+browser

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