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Explanation of Browser
The browser is the program you run on your desktop PC that displays files from the
internet.
You probably are using Netscape
Communicator or Microsoft Internet
Explorer.
Sometimes I refer to the browser's Back button.
That's the button that is not on any web page, but rather in the top section of your
screen that has the browser's controls. It's confusing, because many web pages have
"back" buttons, too. Only the browser's Back
button will be sure to bring you back to the most recent previous page you looked at.
My explanations for things you should do on your browser tend to be vague, because
although these two browsers do the same thing, they use different words for the same
thing. Here's a Netscape/Microsoft Microsoft/Netscape dictionary that illustrates
some of the differences:
| Netscape |
Microsoft |
English |
| Bookmark |
Favorite |
A way of saving the location (or address) of a page on the Internet so you can come
back to it later -- even days or weeks later. |
| Location |
Address |
The name of the file on the Internet, sometimes known as the URL, or Uniform Resource
Locator. |
Here are three pieces of advice when using either browser -- take 'em or leave 'em:
- Click the "View" command to make visible all the toolbars until you're
comfortable with the information they present to you. Then you can delete them --
you can always get them back later by clicking "View" again.
- Watch the shape of the mouse pointer as you move it around the screen, and watch the
buttons light up as you pass the mouse pointer over them. Your browser is trying to
tell you something; be receptive to its messages! For example, if something can be
dragged, drag it.
- God gave you two mouse buttons. So why do you use only the left one? Use the
right mouse button, too. Quite often a "pop-up" menu will give you a
number of choices of what to do. The left mouse button will always take the
"default" choice.
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