Using Netscape Navigator 4.04

Using Netscape Navigator 4.04

Here follows a quick reference guide on how to start browsing and using Netscape 4.04. If you need more information , you can have a look at the Netscape Help under the menu:
Help | Help Contents

• How to navigate

  If you are reading this page probably you already know how to go from one page to another using your mouse on a browser window. You click on a link (which is usually blue and underlined) and you jump in another page, most probably on a different machine in another country from the starting one.
  The following are few features of Netscape Navigator you can find useful to surf the web.

  Back and Forward buttons in the Navigation toolbar at the top of the page . Using them you should be able to go back or forth to the page you've already visited.

  Home button always in the same toolbar at the top of the page. If you get lost jumping from one page to another, just click on Home and you'll be right there at the starting page.

  The Back, Forward and Home can be reached as well from the Go menu. From this menu, you can see the list of the page you visited during the current session.

  If you want to get a specific page and you know its URL, just go in the Location field (in the Location toolbar at the top of the page) and type the URL in; then press enter  on your keyboard. You can otherwise choose from the menu:
  File | Open Page
  and  a window will pop up. Then type the URL in and go on.

  If you want to have a look at more pages at the same time you can open a new Navigator window from the menu:
  File | New | Navigator Window
  Note that if you choose Exit from the File menu in one window, all the Netscape windows will be closed and not just the window from where you've clicked Exit. If you want to close just one Navigator window do:
  File | Close
  
  
  

• Bookmarks

  If you find something interesting and you want to remember that URL for recovering the information later or  in the next Netscape session, you can save this URL just creating a bookmark. In order to that, just click on :
  Bookmarks | Add Bookmark
  in the Location toolbar at the top of the page once you're in the page you want to remember. Then every time you want to get that page , just go to the Bookmark menu and choose that page from the list you created adding bookmarks.
  You can delete and organize your bookmarks list in folders choosing:
  Bookmarks | Edit Bookmark
  

  
  

• Preferences

  You can customize your browser using the menu
  Edit | Preferences
  A window will pop up and from there you will be able to reach different menus :

  Appearance
  Navigator
  Mail&Groups
  Composer
  Advanced

  Each of these menus can be expanded clicking on the left arrow and other settings will appear.
  As we said before, most of the values are set to a CERN default as you start the browser for the first time, but you can modify them using the Preferences menu.
  From Edit | Preferences  if you want to :

  change the size of the font go to
  Appearance | Font
  and increase or decrease its size.

  change the color of the links or pages you visit, go to
  Appearence | Colours
  This option is really helpful if you're working on a B&W monitor and you're having problems related to the contrast . Just set black for the text color and white for the background (or viceversa) and choose the option Always use my colours, override document .

  change your home page , go to
  Navigator
  and write the URL you want as your home page.

  
  

• Search

  If you want to find something inside the CERN intranet (covering all web servers at CERN) or the Internet, you can use the Infoseek Search Engine reachable from the CERN home page under the Search . At the end of the Search page additional world-wide search engines are available.
  For your query syntax, please refer to the Infoseek help on-line.
  

• Proxy

  In order to reduce the traffic on the network and to speed up the access to the information, a browser may take advantage of a caching proxy server.  When a page is requested, the browser asks the proxy server first,the proxy server gets the page on behalf of the browser and also stores that page so that next time any other browser using the same cache wants to load the same page, the caching proxy will provide it without going over the external network (of course the proxy has a mechanism to make sure that the copy is always the latest).
  CERN recently bought a Transparent Cache Engine which performes this caching function at our end of the CERN-USA link. This transparent cache is used independently of the browser's preference setting. In fact, using an explicit cache no longer gives you any benefit. Thus, you should disable the use of the proxy server, go to
  Edit | Preferences | Advanced
  and choose Direct connection to the Internet.
   
   

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