Web Browsers | Introduction

A web browser is a tool that allows you to see and navigate the Web. Two of the most common web browsers available today are Internet Explorer (sometimes abbreviated IE) and Mozilla Firefox. (Macintosh computers' default web browser is called Safari.)

All of the examples in this tutorial feature Internet Explorer, the browser that comes standard with all computers running Microsoft Windows. All web browsers are similar, however, so once you know how to use one, you'll be ready to use them all!

If you would like to learn more about how the internet and the World Wide Web work, we suggest watching this video made by The Common Craft Show. Click the play button once with your left mouse button to start (there is a play button in the middle of the box below, it looks like an arrow pointing to the right).

Click the Next button to continue.