YOUR BROWSER A Guide To
Everything you need to know about your computer and your internet browser. What is the internet? What is a browser? What benefits and choice is there to suit your internet needs?
Your Browser A Bridge
Your browser is the bridge between your computer and the internet.
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Search Bar Quickly search the internet by typing in anything that you want to find
Key
Scroll Large websites can be navigated easily by scrolling up and down the page
Home History
Bookmarks Bar
Favourites
All your favourite websites can be saved in the Bookmarks Bar.
Tabs Downloads
Navigation Click the Back and Forward arrows to navigate through previously viewed websites, or refresh the current page
URL/Website This is where you type in your website address. Start with www.
Extras
Performance Speed
The speed at which your websites load, media downloads, and videos play
Social Networking
Quality of online instant messaging and social networking
How quick and simple it is to write, send and read e-mails
Security
Level of security for online shopping, and protection from viruses
CHROME Home
Downloads
Choose your own homepage, which will open every time you load up the browser
Chrome shows download info within the browser window, showing download progress
History
Tabbed Browsing
Chrome uses the URL bar for history search, enabling you to search everything at once
When you open a new tab, the sites you visit most often are presented in thumbnail previews
Favourites
Extras
One click of the favourites star icon will bookmark your page in to customisable folders
When you open a new tab, the sites you visit most often are presented in thumbnail previews
Information
Chrome is a relevantly new browser developed by Google. Chrome has a minimal and simple interface, which helps to improve speed, and offers many security features. Chrome also offers Incognito browsing, to keep your history secret, and a page to show your most visited websites.
Performance
FIREFOX Home
Downloads
Easily access your chosen homepage with one click of the Home icon on the toolbar
The manager shows your download progress and lets you search your files by name
History
Tabbed Browsing
Type in a term in to the location bar and autocomplete function matches your visited sites
Simply arrange the order of your tabs by dragging them in one swift move of your mouse
Favourites
Extras
Just one click on the star icon at the end of the location bar bookmarks a site
Choose from 5000 free extras to make your browser look and function the way you want
Information
Firefox is a free and open source web browser managed by Mozilla Corporation. Latest Firefox features include tabbed browsing, spell checking as you type, one click bookmarking, a download manager and private browsing, to hide your history as you browse.
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INTERNET EXPLORER Home
Downloads
Customisable start up page that automatically displays when you first open Internet Explorer
Each download is checked by internet explorer to see if it is safe or contains any viruses
History
Tabbed Browsing
Organise your history by name, most visited or date, to ease history searching
Internet Explorer introduces Tab Groups, colour coding tabs that have related content
Favourites
Extras
One click the favourites button to add the page you’re browsing to the Links Bar
Internet Explorer’s Web Slice feature enables you to see when your favourite pages are updated
Information
Internet Explorer by Microsoft, is the default browser for Windows operating system, and is only available on PC, not Mac. It is the longest running browser still available, with a recent update impoving speed, and adding features present in other browsers, like tabs and cutomisable appearance.
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SAFARI Home
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Favourites
Extras Cover Flow presents full-page previews of websites from your history and bookmarked pages
Drag and drop or one-click pages in to folders of custom bookmarks to keep organised
Information
Tabbed Browsing Rearrange tabs by dragging them left or right, or drag a tab out a window for a new window
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Similar to the look of iTunes, in Safari’s History View you can search previously visited sites
Use the download manager window to view progress of your downloads
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History
Downloads
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Safari tracks the sites you visit and ranks your favourites as thumbnails on a new open page
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple. First released in 2003, it became the default browser for Mac, as well as other Apple browsing products, like the iPhone. Now also available on Windows (for PC), Safari has lots of security features and visual interfaces, similar to those of Apple’s iTunes.
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Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer
Apple Safari
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For further information and to download your chosen browser, visit the following website:
www.yourbrowser.co.uk