Contact or visit the Information Commons Help Desk. Call or visit most University of Toronto library reference desks. Return to Contents at Top Glossary Browser. A browser is a Web client, or program for using the World Wide Web. Internet Explorer and Netscape are graphical browsers that display text and images.
Lynx is a text-only browser.
Clients and Servers. The client, which is generally on your computer, retrieves and displays information for you. To do so, it interacts with a server, which may be anywhere on the Internet. The server is like an information warehouse filling orders for clients. UTORmail clients pass incoming and outgoing e-mail messages through the UTORmail server.