Hacking Web Intelligence

Chapter 3

Understanding Browsers and Beyond

Abstract

In the last chapter we discussed about open source intelligence and learned about advanced search mechanisms of various social networking sites, now we will be moving on and we will be specifically dealing with browsers in this chapter. First we will talk about some basic information about browsers and their brief history. After that we will move on to the architecture of browsers. Then we will discuss about some of the common features of browsers such as autocomplete, bookmarks, proxy, etc. Further we will learn about possibility and need for custom browsers. Once we are into custom browsers, we will talk about some of the available custom browsers and their functionalities. Later in this chapter ...