Definition
microbrowser
noun
- a lightweight web browser designed to run on mobile devices or other resource-constrained systems with limited memory and processing power
Usage: computing; technology
Examples
- Early smartphones relied on microbrowsers to display web content efficiently.
- The microbrowser was optimized to work on devices with minimal RAM.
- Many feature phones came preloaded with a microbrowser for basic internet access.
- Developers had to design websites that worked well with microbrowsers on older mobile devices.
- The microbrowser stripped away unnecessary features to improve performance on low-end hardware.