146 Browse with Tabbed Windows
When you start Firefox, it displays your Home pagea web page you've arbitrarily selected to view first whenever you launch the browser. (See
147 Set Your Home Page .) You move from page to page on the World Wide Web by either clicking a
link on a web page, or by typing the address of the page you want to view into your web browser (Firefox). After you've viewed a few web pages during a session, you can easily move back to view some previous page if needed.148 Bookmark a Favorite Page . You can also save a favorite page and its contents on your hard disk permanently. See
Link A bit of text or a graphic image that, when clicked, causes a particular web page to be displayed. When the mouse pointer is moved over a link, the pointer changes to a hand.
142. Navigate the Web
1. | Enter or Select an Address To view a particular web page, type its address in the Location bar on the Navigation toolbar and press Enter or click the Go button. For example, type 146 Browse with Tabbed Windows . |
3. | OR Select Address from Go Menu To revisit a page you've viewed previously in this browser session, open the Go menu and select the web page you want to revisit from the list. To view a page you've visited during some previous viewing session, use the browser's History. See When you return to a previous page, any links you visited typically appear as purple, underlined text, rather than in blue. This color change helps you identify which pages you've looked at already. |
4. | OR View Previous Pages To revisit the page you just left, click the Back button on the Navigation toolbar. To return to the page you were on when you jumped backward, click the Forward button. To jump back or forward several pages in your viewing history, click the arrow on the Back or Forward button and select a page from the list that appears. To revisit the Home page at any time, click the Home button on the |
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