A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, and other information typically located on a web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. Text and images on a web page can contain hyperlinks to other web pages at the same or different websites. Web browsers allow a user to quickly and easily access information provided on many web pages at many websites by traversing these links.

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Many hotspot providers have chosen to require their clients to install and use specialized software in order to authenticate their user accounts (sometimes stored locally in the AP, itself!). Hautspot's philosophy is that the hotspot experience should be as transparent to the end user as possible, and not limiting users to a particular operating system or web browser. Hautspot fully supports all modern web browsers running on platforms which support them, including Firefox, Internet Explorer, SeaMonkey, Camino, Netscape, Opera, Konqueror, Chimera, and more, on Microsoft Windows, IBM OS/2, Serenity Systems eComStation, Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS, Irix, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, and more - all  without the need for specialized software of any kind.

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