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The thin layer of glass between you and the entire internet's chaos.
means Software like Chrome, Firefox, or Safari that fetches web pages and renders them into the sites you actually see.
from From Old French brouster, to nibble shoots and leaves — exactly what you do, grazing page to page without committing to any.
First oneWorldWideWeb, 1990, by Tim Berners-Lee himself.
Engine countMost browsers now quietly run Google's Chromium core.
Tab hoardingOpen tabs are the modern unread-book pile.