Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index simple:Browser A browser is a piece of software that can look around in an information system. Most of the time people actually mean web browser when they say 'browser'. Other browser types include a help browser. However, to avoid confusion, most of the time when something can be called a 'browser' a synonym is used. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.