Tips on the Pipeline's New Web Browser 

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Where's the Home Page???

This question will never occur to you unless you've used someone else's Web
browser. Programs like Mosaic usually start with a "home page"  because
they've got nothing better to do. (You could get awfully tired of
http://info.cern.ch--try it, if you don't believe us.) 

In a sense, our home page is our entire program, as it always has been. 
That's where you start; you can do everything from there. If you look at
our menus now that you have our Web browser, you'll see that they're
suddenly filled with Web resources, marked by blue web icons. There are
plenty of good starting points for exploration, along with important
Web highlights in many different categories.  

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Backing Up 

No, there's no icon with a little arrow. You'll have to press ctrl-B. (We
hope this isn't too much of a hardship.) This returns you to the "parent" 
of your current page. 

You can also jump further back through your current session by going
to the Files menu, where you'll see a complete list of the Web pages
you've been looking at.  To go forward, of course, you click on any
"link"--the blue pieces of hypertext or graphics that lead to new Web
pages.  

No, there's no icon with a little arrow. You'll have to press ctrl-B. (We
hope this isn't too much of a hardship.) This returns you to the "parent" 
of your current page. 

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Other Ways to Get Where You're Going 

-- If you see a URL (a Web address in the form "http://www.pipeline.com")
in a piece of email or a News article, just highlight it and press ctrl-W. 

-- Add Web sites to your Bookmarks (through the Bookmarks menu). Mix Web
sites and other Internet resources freely. Notice that your Bookmarks can
now be organized into groups and sub-items; this comes in handy as your
list gets longer and longer. You can rearrange items by dragging them and
dropping them. 


-- Of course, you can always type a URL in manually, if need be. You'll
notice that the software remembers all the URL's you've entered before, so
you can always scroll back instead of retyping.  

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Managing Windows 

Unlike most Web browsers, ours lets you open two (or many) Web windows at
the same time. This is extremely useful, because, as you're going to
notice any minute if you haven't already, the Web can get SLOW at times. 
Don't sit there waiting--open a new window. 

(Important: You can speed things up, while removing some of the fun, by
turning off the automatic expansion of inline images, using the Options
menu. You can also always CANCEL a download that seems too painful by
pressing Esc.)

Notice that the Open menu item has two options, one for opening in the
same window (in other words, replacing what you're looking at--the ONLY
option in programs like Mosaic); the other for opening in a new window. 
That latter option lets you keep a handy top Web page on screen while you
explore various sub-paths.  You can also "clone" a window using the
Utility menu. This is another way of doing the same sort of thing. (We
like you to have choices--everybody seems to work differently.)

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A Few More Tidbits 

In the File and Utility menus, you'll see ways to: 

-- copy a URL to the clipboard (useful when you want to email a friend the
address to some cool site); 

-- grab the raw HTML document for saving or printing (useful if you're
really obsessed with this stuff); 

-- reload the current document (useful if you've just changed an
option--the base font, for example, or the automatic display of embedded
graphics--and you want to see the effect on the current page). 

Other items involve "caching." You usually won't care, but we are keeping
on your hard disk temporary copies of a lot of material you download. 
This improves performance enormously. Once in a while you may want to
override this caching--when you want to see how a particular Web page has
changed in the last few minutes, for example. The Utility menu gives you a
way to do this. 


