web-browser

See also: Web-browser, web browser, Web browser, and Webbrowser

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web-browser (plural web-browsers)

Alternative form of web browser.
- 1994 September 20, David Plotnikoff, “The fall invasion of neophytes plagues Usenet veterans”, in St. Petersburg Times, volume 111, number 58, page 4D:
  To see why Al “My Way Is the Highway” Gore and 50,000 other Netheads from across the country have dialed into Monta Vista this year, point your web-browser to http:
- 1995 January 19, Harley Jebens, “Powerhouse Hardware Software”, in XLent (Austin American-Statesman), volume 2, number 3, page 27:
  If you’re on a web-browser, surf to http://www.jpl.nasa.gov.
- 1995 January 20, John M. Moran, “Internet becomes quake-net: Global audience gets disaster information”, in The Hartford Courant, volume CLVII, number 20, page A8, column 3:
  To reach Kansai-Net via the World Wide Web, point your web-browser to http://pclsp2.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kp.html.
- 1995 September 23, Chris Depasquale, “Chess”, in The Age, 141st year, number 43,780, section E, page 15:
  Several other sites on the Worldwide-Web^[sic] claim to provide a coverage. Point your web-browser at one of the following: […]
- 1996 November 6, Karen G. Cheesman, “[People’s Pulpit] Illinois deliberately creates health hazard”, in The Rock Island Argus, 147th year, number 20, Rock Island, Ill., page A4:
  Incidentally, if you think this situation is just going to go away, you might want to crank up your gubernatorial web-browser and check out: http.^[sic]//www.netexpress.netgideon/flyaway.html.
- 1997 November 25, “New A-level physics course”, in John Leggott Journal (Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph), number 16, page 12:
  […] we might visit The Virtual Laboratory, a site where hundreds of physical phenomena are simulated or demonstrated in a virtual environment using small programs called ‘applets’ designed to run on your web-browser.
- 1998 September 1, Thomas Robson, “Tears of laughter with The Onion”, in The Birmingham Post, number 43,295, page 20, column 2:
  For refreshingly different news stories, point your web-browser to http://www.theonion.com home of The Onion, probably the Internet’s most irreverent news-service.
- 2001 March 23, Star Tribune‎^[1], volume XIX, number 353:
  Simply spin your web-browser to www.startribune.com/freeflicks and enter to win a complimentary pass for you and a guest to attend this special advance screening!
- 2007 July 6, Shayne Morrow, quoting Cliff Seiben, “RBC latest target for phishing scam”, in Alberni Valley News, volume 58, number 131, Port Alberni, B.C., page 3A, column 3:
  The best advice is, if you want to be sure about your account, whatever it is, shut down your e-mail, go to your web-browser and manually type in the real address, not the one they’ve given you.
- 2010 December 26, The Sunday Times, page R3:
  Most new phones come with QR Reader. If yours does not, type QR Reader in your web-browser and download app.
- 2013 March 5, Ankeny Register & Press Citizen (The Des Moines Register), page 10:
  To vote please type in http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013AnkenyBestOf into your web-browser or visit http://www.desmoinesregister.com/ankeny and click on the Ankeny Best Of Logo
- 2019 April 12, “ICE system helps to improve services from Picatinny Arsenal garrison”, in The Picatinny Voice, volume 32, number 3, page 12:
  To get started log onto Picatinny’s ICE page via the garrison website and click on the ICE logo or type https://ice.disa.mil/index.cfm?fa=site&site_id=401 into your web-browser.
- 2021 June 13, “[Obituaries] Mary Margaret Schwenkler Cain”, in Star-Gazette, volume 57, number 225, Elmira, N.Y., page 15A:
  In lieu of flowers, those wishing may make donations to gofund.me/98ef8236 (copy and past^[sic] into your web-browser) to combat child hunger in the Finger Lakes and help bring clean water to DR Congo, or Catholic Charities of Elmira, NY.