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Introduction to Browsers |
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Take Your Pick - Read, Listen and View
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You can read this page or listen to the audio by double-clicking on the play
button  of the Audio Player below. Follow along by scrolling down the page.
This Audio is approximately 15 minutes long.
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To watch the VIDEO training - click here.
Length of video training is approximately 9 minutes.
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What is a Browser
Browsers are a software program used to search and view various resources and bits of information found on the Internet, all over the world, such as the information you would find on web sites, blogs, and forums.
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Here we see an Internet Explorer browser, also referred to as IE. The typical components found on most browsers, however not always in this order, are:
The top line is the Title Bar.
The Second line is the Menu Bar.
The third line is the Tool Bar.
And the bottom line is the Address Bar.
The most common features that are iconned on the browser's tool bar are back, forward, stop, refresh, home, search, favorites, history and the address bar. The basic tool bar icons that enhance your browser experience are covered in the Browser Basic Traings. Other icons are covered fully in the Tool Bar Training, and other areas of the browser window are covered in depth in various ScyberBiz online trainings.
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How Many Browsers are There?
There are literally hundreds of browsers with different capabilities, so we will highlight only the most common ones in our online training.
Internet Explorer - Probably the most popular browser today is Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) which is activated by clicking on the blue "e" often found on your desktop. In 1995, the first version was packaged with Windows 95. With IE 7.0 being released in 2006, be careful downloading it until all of the bugs are worked out. We are sticking with 6.0 for the time being. Our online trainings are based around using this browser because that's what I'm familiar with. If you are using something else, the differences should be minor. |
| Netscape Navigator was the most popular browser in the early 1990s, and by the late 1990s lost its position to Internet Explorer. Netscape changed its product to Netscape Communicator and went through a complete overhaul for approximately 3 years. Very little innovation took place after the late 1990s, and by 2002 had nearly evaporated. During this time, Microsoft gave away Internet Explorer with Windows, and soon became the browser seen on most computer desktops. |
| Mozilla Firefox - Since November of 2004, Firefox has become increasingly popular, has been downloaded nearly 200 million times and claims to have about 12% of the global market. The program allows you to import your favorites, settings and other information from Internet Explorer. Mozilla was used as the codename of the original Netscape Navigator. Mozilla was founded in order to create the next-generation of Netscape. After a series of lengthy changes, the trademark is currently held by the Mozilla Foundation. |
Internet Explorer, Netscape and Mozilla Firefox are all graphical browsers which means they can display graphics as well as text.
Here are just a few of the historically known alternative browsers you can use with Linux, Mac and Windows:
- WorldWideWeb - the world's first web browser introduced in February 1991
- ViolaWWW - developed in 1992 set the standard for everything to follow
- Mosaic - the first web browser to run on Windows was released in 1993 and ended in 1997
- Opera - popular web browser and internet suite with very fast speed and many features
- Amaya - an open source software project hosted by W3C
- Emacs - full Web browser functionality (unix, win95, winnt, amiga, os2, vms)
- Hot Java - offers a lot of flexibility and runs on many platforms
- Lynx - a text browser that allows you greater speed than graphical browsers
- Safari - the Mac OS X default web browser and loads pages quickly for Mac pcs
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Browsers 102 - Cookies, Cache & Temp Files
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