This is a special piece of software that understands how to connect to Web Servers using the HTTP protocol and retrieve web pages.

This software typically will request information from a web server and display it.

The information that is retrieved from the server tends to be in a special markup language called HTML that provides for the ability to display text in various fonts as well as display graphics and images.

In addition, the web browser also allows the user to click on special sections of the web page that has links to other web pages.