For novice Internet users, a huge world of free information. Unlimited access to it gives people great opportunities: study any languages and sciences, read books, communicate, etc.
However, many users are stopped by the barrier from a large number unfamiliar terms. Words like authorization and browser look unfamiliar to newbies and can mislead that the Internet is difficult.
These seemingly complex terms have enough simple and straightforward definitions. With their help, navigating the Internet will become easier even for a beginner.
What is a browser?
The word that a novice Internet user learns first of all is a browser. It is impossible to go online without it. Simply put, a browser is special program to view .
The Internet works without a browser, but data cannot be obtained from it. It requests information on the World Wide Web, after receiving it, processes it and transmits it to the user's screen.
Publishers software for the free use of the Internet, they are trying to improve web browsers and expand their functionality. Technological progress and constant competition between developers accelerates the process of improving browsers.
Main functions executed by the browser:
- Opening web pages, i.e. search, receipt and processing of information requested by the user;
- Download required files: films, games, images, music and more;
- Information storage: saving browsing history, remembering passwords, the ability to save your favorite sites on the quick access panel;
Besides the main functions, modern internet browsers have and a number of additional:
- Change in appearance. Everyone can choose a visual theme for their browser, based on their taste.
- Providing information about weather, new messages, important news, etc.
- Protecting your computer from malicious software. On the Internet, you can find not only the answer to almost any question, but also malicious software. To exclude the possibility of infecting your computer via the Internet, you need to install an antivirus and an extension for a web browser.
There are many more additional applications for the browser, designed for a more comfortable user experience on the World Wide Web. Listening and downloading music, fast access to loved ones social networks and other resources - far from full list extensions that you can add to your browser.
The necessary extensions are installed using special online stores. Everyone has popular browsers he is.
Default browser
Modern software for using the Internet is usually released not only for the computer, but also for other popular platforms. Any number of browsers can be loaded on each device, however, there can be only one master.
The default browser is the browser with which all links will open provided by other installed programs.
There is several ways set the browser to be the main one:
- Through browser settings. The item "Set browser as default" is in the settings of each modern browser, this is the easiest way to make the browser the main browser.
- Through the control panel. In all Windows versions up to 10 in the control panel there is an item "Programs". From it you need to go to "Programs by default", then "Setting programs by default" and select your favorite browser as the main one.
- Answer “Yes” in the pop-up dialog box asking if you want to install the default browser.
What browsers are there?
Name all existing browsers hard, as their great amount... However, one can distinguish Most Popular.
- Internet explorer. For many, the very first browser that I had to work with. Comes with a standard operating system.
- Google chrome. Today this browser is considered the most popular in Russia and the CIS countries. Has gained popularity due to its simplicity and functionality.
- Mozilla Firefox... Browser for advanced users. It has a lot of functionality, and the number of extensions offered.
- Opera. The most simple and intuitive browser that has existed for over twenty years.
- Yandex browser. Attribution ititelno new browser, which has already gained popularity among Internet users.
Each of the listed browsers is good for something. It is worth choosing The most convenient for yourself. You should analyze the functionality of each Internet browser and install the most suitable one.
The browser is a tool for accessing the worldwide spider web www... To obtain maximum impact from the Internet you need to understand and know various functions web browser.
In this lesson, you will learn what a browser is, and we will also talk about navigating the Internet using a browser, downloading files, bookmarking your favorite sites, tabs and plugins.
A browser is a program for viewing web pages. With the help of a browser, you have the opportunity to surf the Internet, visit sites, watch images on the Internet, movies, listen to music, etc. Right now you are reading this material using your browser.
What browsers are there
There are many web browsers nowadays, but the most popular ones are (Chrome) and Firefox(Firefox) . Other browsers: Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari. Each of the above browsers has its own appearance and navigation, but their goal is the same: to load web pages correctly and quickly.
Like most modern programs, browsers use graphic user interface(GUI), which means you can navigate and perform actions with the mouse, rather than, as in the early days of the computer, by typing commands.
Some devices, for example, use different types graphical interfaces such as touch screens. Nevertheless, many principles remain unchanged.
In the image below graphical interface a computer where we use a mouse and a touchscreen interface of a smartphone where instead of a mouse we use a finger touch.
Navigation
To get better at using the browser, you should know some basic concepts.
All browsers have an address bar that shows the web address (also called a URL) of the page you're on. To go to another page, you can enter Url to the address bar and press Enter.
Links
Basically, to go to another page, you can go by clicking on the link. They can be in the form text or Images and they usually stand out. Mostly there are of blue color and can be underlined. If you do not understand this link or not, then move the mouse cursor over it, and it should change its appearance to a hand icon.
Sometimes after you click on a link, you may want to return to a previous page. To do this, you can use the Back button , then you can click the Forward button to follow the link again. You can use the Refresh button in cases where the page did not load correctly, the pictures are not visible, or some of the text is missing, etc. It happens sometimes.
There are times when you shouldn't use the navigation buttons. For example, in online stores, you should not refresh the page after purchasing an item or during a purchase, because this could result in the item being purchased twice.
Many browsers have combined the address bar and the search bar into one panel. Line where to be Page url, in the same place you can write the search terms. However, there are browsers that have a built-in search bar as a separate bar.
Adding a bookmark
If you find a page of interest to you on the Internet, you can add it to your bookmarks. Bookmarks are added so that later it would be easier to return to the page and not forget it. It is convenient and easier than memorizing long obscure addresses and constantly typing them into the address bar.
- In Chrome, you can add a bookmark by clicking on the star at the end of the address bar on the right. Bookmarks are added in the same way in other browsers.
Story
Let's say you visited a page a few days ago, but forgot to bookmark it. You can find this page using history, which is a list of sites / pages that you have visited before. Pages usually remain in history for a certain number of days. For privacy, you can delete history at any time.
View history
- To view the history in the Chrome browser, click on the button in the right upper corner and select History:
Delete history
- To delete history in Chrome, go to history and click Clear history.
If you have a different browser, the process for viewing and deleting history will be different.
All browsers allow you to open the link in a new tab. It is allowed to leave current page open. For example, if you are reading an article that contains a link, then you can open the link in a new tab, and finish reading this article, and then go to the new tab.
Tabs are designed to make browsing the pages more convenient. You can open as many tabs as you like. They will stay in one browser window without cluttering the screen with multiple windows.
- To open the link in a new tab, click right click mouse click on the link, and click "Open link in a new tab"
Uploading files
You can download various types of files from the Internet using your browser. Let's say you need to fill out and print a form that you found on the Internet. You can download it to your desktop and then open it with an appropriate program (for example, with help from Microsoft Word).
How to download a file?
If you click on the link under which there is the file you need, then it can be automatically downloaded. And sometimes it will just open in the browser instead of downloading. In this case, to download the file you need to right-click on the link and select "Save Target As ..."
This does not mean that you can download anything from any site. Some sites do not allow you to download content.
Some sites do not allow you to save their images.
Plugins
Plugins are programs that are installed on your browser that enable it to play videos and flash animations. For example plugins Quicktime Player and Flash Player... If you have not installed necessary plugins, the site instead of playing the video will give you a link to download the plugin.
If you have the necessary plugins, you can enjoy streaming videos and playing games.
People who are just getting started with the vast world of the Internet recognize many unfamiliar expressions and words, and perhaps the most important of them is the Browser. What does Browser mean? I recommend reading a few more popular articles, for example, how to understand the word Carte Blanche, what is the Establishment, what does Iskander mean? This term was borrowed from in English "Browser", and means" a program that allows you to receive information from the Internet". Usually beginners are trying to figure out which browser is the best, and in general, along the way, a lot of questions arise, the answers to which we will try to give in this short article.
I'm not going to tell you about rare browsers that geeks and coders mainly use, let's talk about the most popular and fast ones.
Browser(Web browser) is special program, the sole purpose of which is to browse websites
The browser executes " http"a request to a remote server, and receives information from it, which is then processed and given to the user in the structured form, very convenient for human perception.
Speaking in simple words, the browser is the program with which you are now reading these lines, in fact browser, it is an intermediary between world wide web and a man. It is this small application that provides users with access to this global network.
I hope you understand what this is about? Do you turn on your computer or smartphone, and in order to get the information you need, run the program (browser). Then you have a window that allows you to get into this huge and hidden from prying eyes world of the internet.
Which browser is the best?
Next, I will tell you my top best browsers on the Internet.Google chrome is the most fast browser created by Google corporation, while it was based on Chromium browser... Powered by the smart Webkit engine. In my opinion, this is the best program to date, but it has some drawbacks, one of which is the lack of familiar Firefox add-ons.
Mozilla Firefox is absolutely free program developed by Mozilla Corporation, in my opinion practically perfect browser with a lot of all sorts of additions, but inferior in google speed Ghrome.
Internet Explorer is a buggy and inadequate browser, its popularity is explained by the fact that it is preinstalled in Windows by default. Slow and cumbersome, my verdict is in the firebox.
Opera- this is a browser that had died in Bose, but the Norwegian developers took the time to hurry up and transferred the platform to a new engine that uses the same Google Ghrome. Therefore, if you hate Google for their espionage cases, and the fact that they constantly monitor your every move on the Internet, then Opera is great choice... Moreover, there is encryption there, which will save your data from bad people.
Apple Safari- this browser is a brainchild Apple Corporation, and is included by default in OSs such as IOS and Mac OS X, respectively. Also, its own version of the Safari browser was created for Windows. What can I say about this program? It works, not very buggy, so it has a right to exist.
So, from the above, we can draw the following conclusion, best browser it Google Chrome, but without a doubt, Firefox should also be installed on your computer, all the others are not needed, and you should not use them, because there is no need.
Each of us, in order to be able to get to the necessary sites on the Internet, uses a browser. Some have Opera, others have Mozilla Firefox, and still others have Google Chrome or another browser.
Like many other "computer" words, the word "browser" is of English origin. Expression Web Browser literally translated as web browser, derived from the verb "to browse", meaning "to scroll, browse."
Those who are trying to preserve the purity of the Russian language may well use the expression "page browser" or simply "browser" instead of this word.
A web browser is needed so that the user can get to the web pages of the Internet sites he needs. Of course, this is possible if he knows exactly the address of the page - then he can only type this address in a special address bar, and the browser finds it on its own remote server, with which opens the desired page.
In addition, any browser has a search function for words or phrases of interest to the user. To use it, you need to type this word in search bar, and search system will suggest all the pages at her disposal where words from the search query are mentioned.
Thanks to the browser, "wanderings" across the information ocean of the Internet have become much easier and become available even to unprepared users.
Often, when an action cannot be performed, or when the computer starts to open web pages very slowly, experienced users it is advised to clear the browser cache. Cache is information about those web pages, pictures, music, videos that the user viewed using the browser.
To store it on the disk, the memory of each computer is allocated special place... When the cache gets too large, to view it before opening each new page it takes more time, which slows down the computer as a whole. 
When the allocated disk space is full, new files are written in place of the old ones.
Some advanced users use the cache to save their favorite audio and video files. To do this, after watching a movie or listening to music, you need to open the cache and copy the last file placed there (and there are a lot of them) to your music library, after renaming it.
Opening the cache is as easy as opening any other file folder. By default (if no other address was specified when installing the browser) the cache, for example, Opera browser located at
C: \ Documents and Settings \ [username] \ Local Settings \ Application Data \ Opera \ Opera [version] \ cache.
Similarly, you can find the cache of any other browser.
The browser cache is often looked for in another way, using the tools of the browser itself. So, in order to open the Opera cache, you need to type in the address bar opera: cache... To view the cache of Mozilla Firefox in the address bar, you need to type the command about: cache.
Sometimes, when you launch a browser, a window appears that notifies that this browser is not the default browser, and asks if you want to make it so.
When you see this window, there is no need to be intimidated. It just means that you have several browsers installed on your computer, and usually you use another. The "default browser" is the one with which you usually open required pages websites. If you answer “yes” to the question, the default browser will be the one you are currently using.
If the browser does not open the pages, first of all, you need to check if there is an Internet connection. This can be easily identified by the icon on the panel, which is usually located next to the date and time. If you cannot understand if there is an Internet connection, try another program that also needs an Internet connection.
In the event that the Internet is available, and the browser still does not open, try launching another browser (if you have another one installed). Failure again? Perhaps a virus has settled on your computer, which means you need to full check all files. 
If the check showed that there are no viruses, but the browser still refuses to work, just reinstall it. You can try to install another browser, but then all bookmarks will be lost and you will have to restore them from memory.
