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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.

                 Suppose, you want to visit the Google. To do this, you can type www.google.com in the
                 Address bar and then press Enter key. The home page of Google opens.





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