User interface

Most above web browsers accept these user interface elements in common:20

Back and advanced buttons to go aback to the antecedent ability and advanced respectively.

A brace or reload button to reload the accepted resource.

A stop button to abolish loading the resource. In some browsers, the stop button is alloyed with the reload button.

A home button to acknowledgment to the user's home page.

An abode bar to ascribe the Uniform Ability Identifier (URI) of the adapted ability and affectation it.

A seek bar to ascribe agreement into a seek engine. In some browsers, the seek bar is alloyed with the abode bar.

A cachet bar to affectation advance in loading the ability and aswell the URI of links if the cursor hovers over them, and page zooming capability.

Major browsers aswell acquire incremental acquisition appearance to seek aural a web page.

Privacy and security

Main article: Browser security

Most browsers abutment HTTP Secure and action quick and simple means to annul the web cache, cookies, and browsing history. For a allegory of the accepted aegis vulnerabilities of browsers, see allegory of web browsers.

Standards support

Early web browsers accurate alone a actual simple adaptation of HTML. The accelerated development of proprietary web browsers led to the development of non-standard dialects of HTML, arch to problems with interoperability. Modern web browsers abutment a aggregate of standards-based and de facto HTML and XHTML, which should be rendered in the aforementioned way by all browsers.

Extensibility

A browser addendum is a computer affairs that extends the functionality of a web browser. Every above web browser supports the development of browser extensions.