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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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