Tips For
Using Netscape Navigator 3.0
This page includes a
number of helpful tips, tricks, and techniques to help you master Netscape Navigator
version 3.0.
 When you type a
Web page URL (address) in the Navigator location bar, start with the www. part. Navigator
will automatically fill in the http:// part.
Here are 5 ways to return to
a previously visited address:
- Use the Back button in the Toolbar to move back one address at a time;
- Right-click anywhere in the viewing area of the screen to bring up a small menu with the
Back option;
- Use the Go menu option to jump to one of the last 15 addresses visited in the current
Navigator session;
- Select Window/History from the menu to select from the global history file of visited
addresses;
- If you have bookmarked the address, use the Bookmarks option to select the address.
Here's a secret switch to
toggle on/off the Navigator status bar at the bottom of the screen: Press Ctrl-Alt-S.
You will increase the viewing area, but you will lose some useful status information such
as the progress of your search or page load.
If setting the cookie alert
in Netscape irritates you with tons of alert messages there is an alternative. Make the
cookies.txt file (usually in the Netscape / program folder) read-only. No more cookies, no
more alerts.
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Quickly copy all the text on
a Web page for use in another application. Click on Edit - Select All then press Ctrl-C.
The text is now in your clipboard. (Caution! Observe copyright laws!)
Don't like getting those
cookies? Here's how to avoid them. Select Options, then Network Preferences.
Under Protocols check the Cookie Alert box for navigator to tell you when a
cookie is passed to your computer. (See the article in this issue for an explanation of
Internet Cookies)
Quickly and easily remove the
status bar at the bottom of Navigator's screen by holding down the Ctrl and Alt
keys, then press the S key. To turn the bar back on, do the same key combination
again.
You can place favorite Web
sites right on your Windows 95 desktop by right-clicking on any blank area of the selected
page and select Internet Shortcut. Or, drag the site's icon from your bookmarks
list to your desktop.
By default, Netscape
Navigator will open Netscape's home page whenever you launch it while connected to the
Net. You can change this start-up page to any page you want by clicking your mouse pointer
on Options, then General Preferences, followed by Appearance. Now,
just type in the address you wish to make your start-up page.
Adding Bookmarks to your
favorite pages is easy and fast if you right-click on a blank area of the page you wish to
add to your Bookmarks. Select Add Bookmark from the menu that appears.
If you installed Navigator
from a download from Netscape you will no longer need the installation file. You'll save
5Mb of hard disk space if you delete it.
Connection a little slow
today? You can speed things up dramatically by turning off graphics loading. Under Options,
uncheck the Auto Load Images option. You can still load an image if you elect to by
clicking on the page's image icon. |
