Using &browser.name.prefix;TM &browser.name.suffix; Menus

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File Menu
New Window
Starts a new &browser.name; window displaying your home page.

If the New Window menu item is disabled, &browser.name; is running low on memory.

Open
Choose Open to display a dialog box in which you can type the Address of a new page to visit, or choose a file on your local system to open. This Address field is equivalent to the Address field that is normally found in the header or footer of &browser.name;. Use this dialog box if you have disabled the default Address field by choosing "None" for the Address option in the Screen Layout section of the General Preferences Display page.

Use the File button in the Open dialog box to open a document on your local system. The File button displays another dialog box from which you can select a document to open. This is the standard file chooser for your system.

If the Open menu item is disabled, &browser.name; is running low on memory.

Save As
Displays the Save Document dialog box so you can specify a location in which to save the currently displayed HTML document. The saved file includes the HTML format tags, so it does not look exactly the same as what you see displayed in the browser. This dialog box is the standard file chooser for your platform.

You can also save a link or an image by pressing the right mouse button over the desired link or image, then choosing Save this Link or Save this Image from the pop-up menu.

Save Frame As
If the current page contains multiple frames (which look like rectangular boxed areas), Save Frame As displays a dialog box in which you can specify a file in which to save the currently selected frame's HTML source. This works like the Save As menu item described above, except that it saves a specific frame. If the current page contains frames, the Save As menu item saves the HTML page containing the frameset that defines the grouping of frames on the page, instead of the currently selected frame.

To select a different frame, click anywhere within that frame.

Print
Displays the Print dialog box, which varies depending on your platform.

The size and style of the printed text depend on the Printer Font and Printer Font Size settings, set on the Text Preferences page.

Please note that if the page cannot be printed using the specified printer font size without clipping wide text, such as tables or preformatted HTML text (for example, code samples), the print type size will be scaled down so that all the text fits on the printed page. If the scaling is too small, you might want to try printing in Landscape mode, where pages are printed with the long edges of the paper at the top and bottom. More text can fit on each line, so the scaling down of type size is less likely to be necessary.

The standard Print dialog box for your system enables you to specify some combination of the following items, but probably not all of them:

  • Name of the printer to print to and, on some platforms, properties associated with that particular printer.

  • Orientation, to specify Portrait printing (where the long side of the paper is vertical, like most books), or Landscape printing (the long side of the paper is horizontal).

  • Title for your Print Job or Banner Page (the cover sheet).

  • Page Description Type, such as PostScript or PCL (Printer Control Language). This information specifies what format of printed output your printer understands. In most cases, you should use the default format specified, which is usually PostScript. If you're not sure what your printer requires, either try different options or talk to your System Administrator.

  • Paper Size. Common paper size options are Letter (8.5 x 11 in.), Legal (8.5 x 14 in.), A4 (210 x 297 mm.), or Executive (7.25 x 10.25 in.).

  • Input Slot, which specifies how paper is fed to your printer. Most of the time, the paper is loaded from a cassette of paper, but there may be instances when you want or need to load paper manually, one sheet at a time.

  • Number of copies to print.

  • An option to print to a file instead of a printer. In this case, you will be asked for the name of a file to be created.

  • Any desired print command options used with your standard print command. For example, on SolarisTM systems, you can specify "no banner page" by typing -o nobanner in the Print Command Options field. This generates the Solaris print command lp -o nobanner.

  • The print range, which is always the entire current web page. No matter how large a web page is, it's considered to be one page. Therefore the entire web page is printed, even if it results in many physical pages.

  • An option to collate multiple copies.
The Print menu item is equivalent to the Print button .

Print Frame
If the current page contains multiple frames (which look like rectangular boxed areas), Print Frame prints the currently selected frame. This works like the Print menu item described above, except that it prints only a specific frame. If the current page contains frames, the Print menu item described above prints every frame on the page.

To select a different frame, click anywhere within that frame. You can then use the Print Frame menu item to print just that part of the page.

Send Mail
Displays a form you can use to send email, optionally including the web site address or HTML source for the current page.

Type the destination email address in the To field, and type your message in the large Message area. To send your mail to multiple people, separate the email addresses with spaces or commas.

Click the Include Web Site Address button to add the web page address (also known as the URL) of the current page to the Message area. This is a convenient way to tell somebody about a web page you found.

Select Attach HTML to add the HTML source of the current page as an attachment to your message. You won't actually see the HTML source in the Send Mail form, but the receiver will see it as an attachment when the message is sent.

Click the Send button to send the message.

Close Window
Closes the current &browser.name; window. If there are multiple &browser.name; windows open, only the current window is closed. If this is the only &browser.name; window, Close quits &browser.name; application.

Exit
Exits &browser.name;, quitting all &browser.name; windows started in the current session.
Edit Menu
Copy
Copies selected text from the currently displayed document to the system clipboard. This menu item is only active when text is selected on a page displayed by &browser.name;. You cannot use this menu item to select text from an applet or a browser field, including the Address field.

Paste
Pastes text from the system clipboard into the Address field. If text is currently selected in the Address field, the pasted text will overwrite the selected text. Otherwise, the text will be pasted at the location of the cursor.

You can copy text to the system clipboard using the Copy key on your keyboard, or the Edit->Copy menu item.

Find in Page
Displays the Find window, in which you type the text you want to search for in the current page. If the text is found, it is highlighted, and the page scrolls if necessary to display the highlighted text.

If the current page contains multiple frames, the search will take place in the currently selected frame. The currently selected frame is identified by a thin black border. To select a different frame, click anywhere inside that frame.

By default, the search operation is not case sensitive, which means &browser.name; does not distinguish between upper- or lowercase text while searching. For example, a request to find the word Java will find java, JAVA, jAvA, or any other combination of upper- and lowercase letters.

You can also choose to do a case-sensitive search, which means &browser.name; does distinguish between upper- and lowercase text, and only finds text that matches exactly. Thus a case-sensitive request to find Java will only find the string Java; it will not find java, JAVA, and so on.

Use the Find button in the Find window to initiate each search. The search begins either from the currently highlighted text or from the top of the current page (or frame) if no text is highlighted.

Use the Clear button to quickly empty the Find field.
Use the Close button to dismiss the Find window.

Search the Internet
Search the Internet takes you to a search page, where you can use one or more search engines to find web pages on any topic.

Preference Pages
Use the Preferences options to display the various Preference pages.

Each Preferences page has OK, Apply, Cancel, and Help buttons at the bottom. The default button (typically the OK button) is bordered by a black line. If you press Enter or Return, the default button action is performed.

Click OK to activate any changes you've made and dismiss the Preferences page.

Click Apply to activate any changes you've made but leave the Preferences page displayed.

Click Cancel to cancel any setting changes you haven't yet applied and close the window.

Click Help to see the documentation about that particular page.

Follow these links for information about the Preference pages:

On platforms that support launching external applications, you will also see a Content Viewer Preferences page. This is not available on JavaStationTM platforms.

View Menu
Reload Page
Reloads the current page. This is useful if changes have been made to the current HTML source, if a page doesn't load correctly the first time, or to restart an applet that stopped running during a low memory condition.
Reload Page is equivalent to the Reload Page button .

Display Background Images
This option is selected by default. Disable this option if you don't want to display the backgrounds of pages. This can increase the speed of loading a page and, in some cases, make pages easier to read.

If you normally display background images but want to turn the background image off for the current page, deselect the Display Background Images check box. When you're done viewing the page, you may want to choose Display Background Images again to turn background images back on for other pages.

The Display Background Images option applies only to backgrounds made up of an image, or a tiled (repeated) image. Display Background Images has no affect on backgrounds that are a solid color.

Stop Loading
Stops all loading of the current page. This menu item is available only while a page is being loaded. Only the loading of a page is stopped; if an applet has been loaded and is running, this will not stop the applet. If &browser.name; is making a connection when you choose Stop Loading, &browser.name; still completes the connection attempt.
Stop Loading is equivalent to the Stop Loading button .

Character Encoding
&browser.name; supports the Unicode 2.0 character encoding, and can display both Latin and non-Latin Unicode characters from regions all over the globe.

To view HTML pages that use an alternate character encoding, choose that encoding from the Character Encoding submenus. Only one alternate character encoding can be specified at any one time. The current character encoding is shown in the submenus with a selected check box.

If the http server sends information with a page telling &browser.name; what character encoding the page uses, &browser.name; will automatically display that page with that character encoding.

If you choose Auto Detect in the Japanese character encoding submenu, &browser.name; tries to analyze the page to determine which Japanese character encoding to use.

To successfully view a page containing an alternate character encoding, you must have the appropriate system fonts available on your system. Contact your system administrator for help.

Ignore Charset Directive
Sometimes the author of an HTML page, or the server that sends the page, uses a meta tag to direct the browser to use a particular character encoding. In this case, the browser is expected always to use that character encoding, regardless of the Character Encoding option you have chosen. In the unusual case that the "directed" character encoding is incorrect, &browser.name; cannot correctly render the page. You will be prompted to try to ignore the character set directive, and then try to display the page using the default (or some other) character encoding.

To ignore the character set specified by the page author or server, select Ignore Charset Directive. This option should normally be selected only when you encounter a page that specifies an incorrect character encoding.

Page Source
Opens a window in which the current page's HTML source file is displayed.

You can save the HTML text to a file using the File->Save As menu item.

Frame Source
If the current page contains multiple frames (which look like rectangular boxed areas), Frame Source opens a page in which the currently selected frame's HTML source file is displayed. To select a different frame, click anywhere within that frame.

If the current page contains frames, the Page Source option displays the page containing the frameset that defines the grouping of frames on the page. Use Frame Source to display the source for the individual frames.

If the current page does not contain frames, the Frame Source menu item is disabled.

Show Console
Display the JavaTM Console to see output and error messages from Java applets and JavaScriptTM commands running in &browser.name;, as well as messages output by &browser.name; itself.
Go Menu
Back
Back takes you back to the previous place you visited. If you choose Back again, it takes you to the place you visited the time before that, and so on. You can also access the Back menu item by pressing the right mouse button when the pointer is in the &browser.name; display window.
Back is equivalent to the Back button .

Forward
Forward displays the page viewed prior to choosing Back (or prior to clicking the Back button). Forward only works after Back has been used. You can also access the Forward menu item by pressing the right mouse button with the pointer in the &browser.name; display window.
Forward is equivalent to the Forward button .

Home
Loads the home page you selected using the Home Page Address option on the Display Preferences page. If you haven't specified a home page, the default home page is loaded. The default home page is either Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s home page, or a home page set up by your system administrator.
This is equivalent to the Home button . (If the Home Page Address field on the Display Preferences page is blank, the Home button will be disabled.)

Show History
Every time you visit a page, its address (or URL) is automatically appended to the bottom of the History list for the current browser window. When you choose the Show History item, a page is displayed that consists of links to all the items on that History list.

Each browser window that you have open maintains a separate History list. Visiting a page in one &browser.name; window does not add that page to a different &browser.name; window's History list.

When you close a &browser.name; window, its History list is deleted. (This only happens when the window is closed, not when it's minimized or iconified.) When you open a new &browser.name; window, a fresh History list for that window is started. All History lists are restarted with each new &browser.name; session. You cannot delete an address from a History list, or edit it in any way.

Bookmarks Menu
Use the items on the Bookmarks menu to mark and revisit pages.

This section contains a fair amount of detailed information about &browser.name; bookmarks. To skip past the details and get straight to information about a particular menu item, use these links:

In addition to these four standard menu items, you may display bookmarks from your Personal Bookmarks list at the bottom of the Bookmarks menu.

A bookmark is simply a placeholder for the address of a previously visited web page.

Bookmarks in &browser.name; are organized into Bookmark Lists. To organize these lists, choose Edit Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu. This displays the Bookmarks window. You may want to display this window for reference while reading this section.

&browser.name; initially provides you with two or three Bookmark Lists, as described below. The Personal Bookmarks and Cool Bookmarks lists can't be deleted, but you can add more lists of your own.

The default Bookmark Lists are:

The Bookmarks menu provides the following functions:

Edit Bookmarks
This displays the Bookmarks window, which you use to organize and revisit bookmarks on your Bookmark Lists.

Lists (indicated by ) are displayed in the top part of the window; the contents of the currently selected list are displayed in the bottom.

Each list consists of bookmarks (links to pages) and folders. Each folder can contain more folders, bookmarks, or both. You can think of a list as a top-level folder.

Double-click a closed folder (indicated by ) to open it. You can only see and access items in a folder when it is open. The contents of an open folder are displayed in a list beneath that folder.

Double-click an open folder (indicated by ) to close it in order to preserve space in your list.

To visit a page, double-click the bookmark. Bookmarks are indicated by lines of plain text in the bottom half of the Bookmarks window.

Hold down the Shift key while double-clicking the bookmark to open the page in a new &browser.name; window.

To see the address of a bookmark, click the bookmark to select it. The address of the bookmark is displayed in the message area at the bottom of the Bookmarks window.

To add a new bookmark to a list:

  1. Display the page in &browser.name;.

  2. Choose Add Bookmark from the Bookmarks menu.
    This adds the current page to the end of the Personal Bookmarks list.

    Alternatively, use the File Bookmark submenu to add a new page directly to a list of your choice.

Or:

  1. Choose Edit Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu.
    This displays the Bookmarks window.

  2. Select the list in the Bookmarks window where you want to add the new page.

  3. Choose New Bookmark from the Bookmarks window File menu.
    This displays the Add New Bookmark window.

  4. Type the address and title for the new page, then click the OK button.

To delete a bookmark, list, or folder:

  1. If the Bookmarks window is not currently displayed, choose Bookmarks->Edit Bookmarks to display it.

  2. Select the bookmark, list, or folder you want to delete. If the bookmark or folder you want to delete is not displayed, select the list in which it appears to display the contents of that list.

  3. Choose Edit->Delete in the Bookmarks window.

    If you make a mistake or change your mind after you delete the item, choose Edit->Undo.

To move a bookmark or folder to a new location:

  1. If the Bookmarks window is not currently displayed, choose Bookmarks->Edit Bookmarks to display it.

  2. If the item you want to move is not in the currently selected list, select the list containing the item.

  3. Select the item in the list that you want to move.

  4. Drag the item to its new location. This can be another location within the same list, or it can be another list. If you drop the bookmark on another list or folder, it is added at the top of that list or folder.

To move a bookmark or folder to a new location using Cut, Copy, and Paste:

  1. Select the bookmark or folder you want to move.

  2. Choose Edit->Cut in the Bookmarks window if you want to move the item; choose Edit->Copy if you'd prefer to leave a copy of the item in its original location.

  3. Select the new list or folder in which you want to put the item being moved.

  4. Choose Edit->Paste in the Bookmarks window.

    The cut or copied item is added to the selected list or folder. The Paste menu item is only available after you have done a Cut or Copy.

  5. If you make a mistake or change your mind at any time while using Cut, Copy, and Paste, choose Edit->Undo to undo the last Cut, Copy, or Paste operation.

To create a new list, choose New List from the Bookmarks window File menu. The new list will appear in the top section of the Bookmarks window and in the Bookmarks menu of &browser.name;.

To create a new folder, choose New Folder from the Bookmarks window File menu. The new folder will appear at the top of the currently selected list.

To rename a list, folder, or a bookmark's title or address, select the item you want to rename, then choose Edit->Properties in the Bookmarks window. You can also double-click on a list to rename it.

To add a horizontal line to a list, choose New Separator from the Bookmarks window File menu. Drag the new separator to the desired location. Separators are useful to keep your lists organized into groups or categories.

To sort a list or folder, select the list or folder to be sorted, then choose the desired sort method from the View menu:

  • In alphabetical order (Sort by Title)
  • By date visited, most recently visited pages first (Sort by Date Visited)
  • By frequency of visits, most frequently visited pages first (Sort by Most Frequently Visited)

After you've sorted a list or folder, you can reverse the order by choosing View->Reverse Current Order. For example, if you want your list ordered from least recently visited pages to most recently visited, select the list, choose View->Sort by Date Visited, then choose View->Reverse Current Order.

To import a list into the Bookmark Lists, choose Import Bookmarks from the File menu in the Bookmarks window. This is useful if you have a list of bookmarks saved from another browser. The list must be stored in HTML format and have a .html or .htm extension in order to be read into the &browser.name; Bookmark Lists.

To save a list as an HTML file, choose Save List as HTML from the File menu in the Bookmarks window. This saves whatever is currently selected in the Bookmarks window, whether it's a list, folder, or individual bookmark.

Add Bookmark
This adds the current page to the Personal Bookmarks List.

You can also add a link to the Personal Bookmarks List by pressing the right mouse button over the link to display the Commands pop-up menu, then choosing Add Bookmark.

See Edit Bookmarks for information about managing your Personal Bookmarks and other lists.

File Bookmark
This adds the current page to the list you choose from the File Bookmark submenu.

Go to Bookmark
Use the Go to Bookmark submenu to revisit a place saved in one of your lists.

Help Menu
The Help menu is located to the far right of the header.
Getting Started
See this page for a brief tutorial on using &browser.name;.

User's Guide
A link to what you're reading now.

Release Notes
All about the current &browser.name; release.

About &browser.name;
Indicates the &browser.name; version and who worked on this and previous versions.

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