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Using Web Browser
For se eral years the e remained a tool used y scientific researchers. ut 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 e 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 nternet connection then ollo the gi en 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
to the ro ser the ro ser finds that s e page and then trans ers the e 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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