Web browser functions are to provide the resources or information to the user when asked by them. 

- It processes the user inputs in the form of URL like http://www.google.com in the browser and allows the access to that page. 
URL is used to identify the resources and fetch them from the server and displays it to the client. 

- It allows the user to interact with the web pages and dynamic content like surveys, forms, etc. 

- It also allows the user to navigate through the complete web page and see its source code in the HTML format. 

- It provides security to the data and the resources that are available on the web that is by using the secure methods

1.     The Web browser should be able to look at the Web pages throughout Internet or to connect to various sites to access information, explore resources and have fun.

2.     The Web browser must enable you to follow the hyperlinks on a Web and type in a URL for it to follow.

3.     Another feature of browser is to have a number of other commands readily available through menus, icons, and buttons.

4.     Your browser ought to include an easy way to get on-line help as well as built in links to other resources on the Web that can give you helps or answer your questions.

5.     You will definitely want a way to save links to the sites you have visited on the WWW so that you can get back to them during other sessions. Web browsers take care of those in two ways, through a come across in the current in the session, and a bookmark list, which you use to keep a list of WWW pages you want to access any time you use your browser. The name of the site and its URL are kept in these lists. The bookmark list is particularly important and the browser contain tools to manage and arrange it.

6.     One of the main feature of a browser is to search the information on the current page as well as search the WWW itself.

7.   Browser give you the facility to save a Web page in a file on your com pull print a Web page on your computer, and send the contents of a Web page e-Mail to others on the Internet.

8.   Few Web browser are complete Internet package, means they come with components like e-Mail client, newsgroup client an HTML composer, telnet client, ftp client, etc.

9. Web browser should be able to handle text, images of the World Wide Web, as well as the hyperlinks to digital video, or 

other types of information.

10.  To take advantage of some of the most exciting things on the World Wide Web, your browser needs to properly display and handle Web pages that contain animated or interactive items. Netscape Navigator can incorporate these features through its ability to interpret programs written in Java and Java Script.

11.  Web browsers interact not just with the Web, but also with your computer’s operating system and with other programs, called plug-ins, that gives the browser enhanced features.

12.    Another important feature to insist on in your browser is caching. A browser that caches keeps of the pages you visit so that it does not have to download them again if you want to return to them. Reloading a page from the cache is much quicker that downloading it again from the original source.

13. The most important feature of any browser is ease of use. While all Web browser  are fundamentally simple to use, the one you settle on should be very easy to work with; it should function as a transparent windom onto the Web.

14. If you will be browser the Web from within a secured network, you may have to configure your browser to work through a special computer on your network called a proxy server.