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Click the ->->+ Start Applications icon.
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The Mozilla application will load.
The Home Page is the web site that is located and displayed by Mozilla when it is loaded by the user. This is set in the Mozilla Preferences as follows:
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Expand the Navigator category by clicking on the + symbol.
Type the new home page into the Location window.
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Click OK.
To display a web page you need to know its URL (web address). The following example illustrates how to access the Yahoo web site. Its URL is www.yahoo.com
Type www.yahoo.com into the Location bar as shown on the next screen and press Enter.
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If you do not type a protocol in front of the URL, Mozilla assumes the protocol is http and completes the URL as shown on the screen above.
Mozilla can often guess the URL you require. For example, if you wanted to view the web site of CNN but were unsure of the URL, you could type in CNN on its own. Mozilla would attempt to find the site for you and would try various possibilities starting with www.cnn.com.
Suppose you have the following situation. You have the web page of Google.com displayed and you wish to display the web page of Yahoo.com without actually closing Google. This is a similar situation to having more than one document open in a word processor. The procedure is quite straight forward:
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Type the URL, in this case www.yahoo.com, into the Location window.
Click on the Open in drop down window and select New Navigator Window.
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Press Enter.
A new window will open with www.yahoo.com displayed.
Click on the appropriate icon at the bottom of the screen to switch between the web sites.
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Web sites often take a while to download, especially if they contain a lot of graphics or if the Internet is very busy at the time you are using it.
Click the Stop button next to the Location bar.
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In order to speed up with with web sites, Mozilla stores copies of pages in a cache or temporary memory area so that they can be recalled more quickly than if they had to be reloaded across the Internet. You can get the most up-to-date version of the page by using the refresh function.
Click the Reload button next to the Location bar or press Ctrl+R.
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Mozilla comes with an extensive help system. Learning to use the help system can help you become familiar with the full range of the application's functionality. To access Help:
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Click the Maximise icon.
Click on Contents.
Suppose you wish to find out how to copy a web page.
Expand Browsing the web by clicking the + symbol.
Expand Copying, Saving and Printing.
Double click on Copying Part of a Page.
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At this point it would be useful to acquaint yourself with the Contents of the Help system.
The Contents are useful if you know exactly what heading you are looking for. It may happen that you are looking for all entries containing a particular key word. The following example illustrates how to find all entries that contain the word cache.
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Click the Maximise icon.
Click on Search.
Enter the word cache into the Search window and click the Search button.
Click on the entry you wish to view.
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The Index is a detailed listing of occurrences of key words in the help system.
Click on Index.
Expand the letter of the alphabet containing the key word.
Expand the contents of the key word and click the entry as shown in the following screen.
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