isr.co.ro : glossary Internet Explorer Microsoft's browser program for viewing pages from the World Wide Web. It offers many of the same core capabilities as the more popular Navigator series from Netscape Corp., including basic Web page viewing, bookmarking, plug-in extensions, and support for "Java." Generally, Explorer provides closer links to Windows than do other browsers, although a version for the Macintosh is also available. It increasingly features Microsoft's proprietary technologies, such as "ActiveX controls." On the other hand, it's usually been a version behind in implementing features added by Netscape, such as Java and frames.