Look here for information about &browser.name; menu items.
If the New Window menu item is disabled, &browser.name; is running low on memory.
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.
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
To select a different frame, click anywhere within that frame.
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:
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.
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.
You can copy text to the system clipboard using the Copy key on your keyboard,
or the
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can save the HTML text to a file using the
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.
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.
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:
You can keep the new bookmarks you add on this list, or you can move them to other lists. See Edit Bookmarks for information about managing your Personal Bookmarks and other lists.
By default, all bookmarks in your Personal Bookmarks list are also displayed at the bottom of your Bookmarks menu (after the Go to Bookmarks item) for easy access. Just choose the bookmark in the Bookmarks menu to display that page. If you prefer, you can keep your Personal Bookmarks off the main Bookmarks menu using the Show Personal Bookmarks in Bookmarks Menu option on the Display Preferences page.
Because this page automatically gets updated with your latest set of Netscape bookmarks every time you run &browser.name;, you cannot modify this list (for example, add or delete items) from within &browser.name;.
The Bookmarks menu provides the following functions:
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:
Alternatively, use the File Bookmark submenu to add a new page directly to a list of your choice.
Or:
To delete a bookmark, list, or folder:
If you make a mistake or change your mind after you delete the item,
choose
To move a bookmark or folder to a new location:
To move a bookmark or folder to a new location using Cut, Copy, and Paste:
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.
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
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:
After you've sorted a list or folder, you can reverse the order by choosing
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.
You can also add a link to the Personal Bookmarks List by pressing the right
mouse button over the link to display the Commands
See Edit Bookmarks for information about managing your Personal Bookmarks and other lists.
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