Browsers
Some of the browsers that are available There are several good browsers available. Here's a description of each of them.
- History Of Browsers The first real web browser was Mosaic and it was released in 1993. Netscape soon followed, and Internet Explorer came even later.
- America Online America Online is great for entertainment and chatting, truly awful for web browsing or doing anything
significant on the internet.
- Review Of America Online I began my net adventures with AOL, but reached the point where it was no longer necessary. My kid cried when I disconnected it, so it soon returned.
- Internet Explorer 5.0 is arguably the best browser available Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0 is the best browser
available. It's fast and efficient and supports virtually everything available on the web.
- Security problems with Internet Explorer Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0 must be configured properly to be
safe while browsing.
- Disable ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting You must disable the 'Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting' setting for Internet Explorer. Here's how to do it.
- Setting Internet Security Zones in Internet Explorer It's important to modify your internet security zone in Internet Explorer to ensure your browsing is safe.
- Setting Restricted Sites in Internet Explorer A great way to ensure your security is to take advantage of the 'restricted sites' options in Internet Explorer.
- Setting trusted Sites in Internet Explorer A great way to ensure your security is to take advantage of the 'trusted sites' options in Internet Explorer.
- Keyboard shortcuts in Internet Explorer 5 Here is a short list of some of the shortcuts in Internet Explorer 5.
- Security problems with Internet Explorer Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0 must be configured properly to be
safe while browsing.
- Neoplanet Neoplanet is a very cool add-on to Internet Explorer which lets you customize your browser
- Netscape Netscape is a decent browser, but it's been steadily loosing in the browser wars.
- Opera Opera is a small, reliable, fast browser
- Browser Helper Objects Is your system crashing? Perhaps you've unknowingly done what I did - added a Browser Helper Object.
- Browser Tips Here are some tips to help you with Internet Explorer 5. You can set the home page and many other things.
- Browser Tips - Browse with images turned off You can turn off images, which makes your browsing faster. Of course, this is not useful if the site does not have ALT tags defined on images.
- Browser Tips - Setting your start page Want your browser to start up on a specific page? It's easy to do.
- Browser Tips - Changing Your Default Font Don't like the font that you see in pages by default? You can change that easily.
- Browser Tips - Changing buttons on the links bar You can change the buttons on the links bar just by dragging links to it.
- Browser Tips - Print a List of Links in IE5 Want to know what links are embedded in a page? IE5 gives you a way to print a list
- Browser Tips - Retrieve the PDF files Want to get a PDF file that you previously looked at in your browser? It's easy to do.
- Browser Tips - Turn on or off Autocomplete Autocomplete can be very useful or totally annoying. If you find it annoying you can just turn it off.
- Browser Tips - Export Your Favorites If you are changing computers or you just want to perform a backup, you can export your browser favorite list.
- Browser Tips - Turning Off JavaScript Want to surf without JavaScript junk driving you crazy? Here's how to turn it off.
- Browser Tips - Changing Default Browser Need to set a browser as the default? Here's how you do it.
- Browser Tips - Clearing Your Browser Cache Sometimes it is useful to clear out your browser cache. This can save disk space or delete unwanted files
- Browser Parameters Your browser actually informs the HTML page and web server quite a bit of information. Here is some of it.