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[[File:Safari 15.png|thumb|right|A web browser ([[Safari (web browser)|Safari]]) displaying a [[web page]]]]
[[File:Various web browsers installed on windows 11 operating system.png|thumb|right|220px|Various web browsers installed on [[Windows 11]] operating system]]▼
A '''web browser''', often shortened to '''browser''', is an [[Application software|application]] for accessing [[website]]s. When a [[User (computing)|user]] requests a [[web page]] from a particular website, the browser retrieves its [[Computer file|files]] from a [[web server]] and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers can also display content stored locally on the user's device.
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== Browser market ==
{{See also|Usage share of web browsers}}
▲[[File:Various web browsers installed on windows 11 operating system.png|thumb|right|220px|Various web browsers installed on [[Windows 11]] operating system]]
[[Google Chrome]] has been the dominant browser since the mid-2010s and currently has a 66% global market share on all devices.<ref name="statcounter"/> The vast majority of its [[source code]] comes from Google's [[Open-source software|open-source]] [[Chromium (web browser)|Chromium]] project;<ref>{{cite web|url= https://blog.chromium.org/2008/09/welcome-to-chromium_02.html|title= Welcome to Chromium|author=((Google))|date=2 September 2008 |access-date=28 April 2021}}</ref> this code is also the basis for [[Chromium (web browser)#Browsers based on Chromium|many other]] browsers, including [[Microsoft Edge]], currently in third place with about a 5% share,<ref name="statcounter"/> as well as [[Samsung Internet]] and [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] in fifth and sixth places respectively with approximately 2% market share each.<ref name="statcounter"/>
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