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Using Web Browser

For several years, the Web remained a tool used by scientific researchers. But in
1993, developers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
created Mosaic, a point and click Web browser. A Web browser is a software

application designed to find hypertext documents on the Web and then open the
documents on the user’s computer. Commonly used web browsers are Google
Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, etc.

Launching Your Browser

You may need to connect to the Internet before launching the browser. To launch a
browser, first get connected to an Internet connection, then follow the given steps:

2 When the list of programs
opens, find the name of your
browser and click on it.

1 Click on Start
button.

Using URLs

You have learnt in the previous class that every Web page has a unique address,

called a Uniform Resource Locator or URL. URLs help you to navigate the Web.
When you provide a URL to the browser, the browser finds that URL’s Web page and
then transfers the Web page to your PC. The content of the Web page then appears

in the Web browser window. You can specify a URL in several ways, but two methods
are commonly used. Let us discuss about them.

Using Address Bar

Step 1 Type the URL in the browser’s Address bar.
Step 2 Press the Enter key from the keyboard.

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