Some Common Features of Web Browsers
1. User Interface: The web browser renders the web pages coming from the server for better understanding by the user. The web browser provides an awesome user interface, so the user can understand and communicate properly with the browser. Web browsers also provide some awesome features like bookmarks and forward and reload tabs.
2. Address Bar: This is the part of the web browser where the user can search and navigate websites using a URL (uniform resource locator). The address bar of a website also displays the current web address.
3. Rendering Engine: Browsers have a rendering engine for displaying the web pages coming from the web servers. Different browsers have different rendering engines; for example, Chrome uses the Blink rendering engine.
4. Bookmark/Favorite: Web browsers have a special feature called “bookmark”. If you are frequently visiting a particular website, then there is no need to search that particular website again and again in the address bar; you can simply bookmark it and access it whenever you want by just a simple “click”. It is one of the best features of a web browser.
5. History: It is a feature of web browser which track the user activity on the browser. It keep track of the website you visited and the previously visited web pages.
Note: To Open History : click on the “three dots” on the top right corner -> History
6. Download Manager: As the name suggest it is the also a feature of web browser which keep track and manage user downloads.
7. Customization: All web browser have a feature for user that they can customize the web browser feature and functionality like customization of appearance, setting, download and history.
8. Privacy and Security Features: Privacy and security feature of the web browser is a crucial feature of the web browser for protecting user data and it ensure safe and secure online experiences. In this there is some feature like (incognito mode in chrome for safe browsing), Ad and pop-up blockers, password manager and secure download manager and many more . All this come under privacy and security.
9. Developer Tools: This feature give extra benefit to the developer so that the developer and debug and can do analysis of the web page. In the developer tool there are various tabs like Element, console, sources and Networks etc.
10. Cross-Platform Compatibility: This is a special feature of a web browser that is available and can run on various platforms like Windows, macOS, Linux, and iOS.
Common Features of all Web Browsers
A web browser is a software application designed for accessing and navigating websites over the internet. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its HTML, CSS, and JS files from a web server and then displays the page on the user’s screen.