Let's take a look at the Navigator browser window.
Menu bar: Offers menus containing commands for working with the program.
Title bar: Shows the title of the web page you're currently viewing. (e.g.. Netscape: American School of Lima)
Navigation toolbar: Contains buttons to help you navigate from page to page. Following are the functions of those buttons:
Back
Takes you back to the last page you visited.Forward
If you've gone backward, takes you forward to the next page.Reload
Gets a new, fresh copy of a web page from its server on the Net.Home
Sends you to your home page. At your computer, you can make any page you want your “home”.Search
Opens the Netscape Net Search page.My Netscape
Takes you to my.netscape.com, where you can create a customized page.Images
If the Automatically Load Images preference is turned off, this button will load images.
Prints the web page you're viewing.Security
Opens a window containing security information about the page you're viewing.Stop
Stops the current page from loading.
Location bar: Includes the Location field, where you type the web address of a page you want to see. The What's Related button* (not really worth explaining). PC users will also see the bookmarks menu here, rather than as part of the menu bar.
Personal toolbar: A place for accessing and filing the bookmarks you want to use most often.
Status bar: When a page is loading, download information, such as how much data has been received, appears in the status bar. The status bar also contains a security icon, which you can click to get security information about a page.
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