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The browser cache is local storage where a web browser keeps copies of downloaded resources so it can reuse them without fetching them again.
A browser sandbox is the security boundary that confines web content and renderer processes, limiting access to the operating system and other sites.
Chromium is the open-source browser project behind Chrome, Edge, Opera and Brave, built on the Blink rendering engine and the V8 JavaScript engine.
The critical rendering path is the sequence of browser steps that turns HTML, CSS and JavaScript into the first pixels a visitor sees on screen.
A rendering engine is the browser component that turns HTML, CSS and images into pixels by parsing, styling, laying out, painting and compositing pages.
The same-origin policy is the browser security rule that stops scripts from one origin reading data from another unless that origin permits it.
WebKit is the open-source browser engine behind Safari that parses HTML and CSS, runs JavaScript and renders web pages on Apple platforms and embedded devices.