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[[File:Usage share of web browsers (Source StatCounter).svg|thumb|[[Usage share of web browsers]] according to [[StatCounter]].]]

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A '''web browser''' (commonly referred to as a '''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/URL) and may be a [[web page]], image, video or other piece of content.<ref>{{cite web

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|title=URI/Resource Relationships

|work=Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One

|lastlast1=Jacobs

|firstfirst1=Ian

|author2last2=Walsh, Norman

|first2=Norman

|publisher=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]

|date=15 December 2004

|accessdate=30 June 2009