Web browser

Apparently, there are (only?) three ways to store data in a browser:

• LocalStorage: stores key-value pairs (but compare also to SessionStorage)
• WebSQL: interface to SQLite, only supported in Chrome and Safari
• Indexed DB: The sucessor to both of them

data in SessionStorage survives a page refresh, data in LocalStorage even a restart of a browser.

Most browsers come with the ability to run programs locally (that is in the web browser itself as opposed to in the webserver). This programming language is based on the ECMAScript language and implemented as JavaScript.

A web page being rendered in a brower can be accessed and manipulated through the document object.

layout engine

Web browser fingerprinting

Browser add-ons

browser automation

Browser Object Model

url.bat uses rundll32 to open an URL in the default browser (?) in cmd.exe.

WebAssembly: A programming language that runs on browsers.

Windows setting ms-settings:defaultapps allows to change the default web browser in Windows.

Browser related Git options

The Python library html5lib parses a web page the same way as a browser does.

https://caniuse.com/ displays matrices for which technology is supported by which browser.