Comments on: What is This “Browser” of Which You Speak?

By: R Fletcher

R Fletcher — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:20:27 +0000

Chiming in from another support desk, there are a lot of people who don’t know what a browser is, or which one they use. They do try, but they just do what someone told them to do without knowing the names or functions of their computer tools. And that makes them a little harder to help…

By: John Baxter

John Baxter — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:32:48 +0000

Does everyone know what a browser is? Not based on the local computer club. It’s a somewhat non-typical club (average age is somewhere around 65 including some WW-II). Some know (and some of those even venture into Firefox). Some don’t.

By: John

John — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:14:45 +0000

May not count as official “research,” but Google did take the “What is a browser?” question to the streets. There are some interesting responses:

By: David

David — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:09:26 +0000

ISP tech support here. I had to give up asking customers to open a browser window, because often they don’t know what a “browser” is.

By: ediedi

ediedi — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:18:40 +0000

‘The web broser is the most important piece of software on your computer’… Not really, (unless one works for Google, of course)