Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Web Browsers: How Do You Surf the Internet? Presentation 4/16/18 What are Web browsers? 1 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 • tools people use in order to access, view or upload the content on the Internet. • an image, video, text or a combination of different categories. • content is stored in form of code • use web browser to interpret the code – to view it in form of a web page 2 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 3 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Web address • navigate the web via web addresses or URL (Uniform Resource Locator). • typed into an address bar it locates the website • Example of a website: https://skokielibrary.info/ • Example of a specific page (“Events”): https://skokielibrary.info/events 4 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Hyperlink • use hyperlinks (aka links) to access related web pages online 5 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Browser elements Navigation 6 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Tabbed browsing Printing 7 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Printing in Chrome browser 3 1 2 Printing in Firefox 3 1 2 8 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Printing in Edge 1 2 3 Printing in Vivaldi 1 2 3 9 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Printing Shortcut • CTRL + P • Use carefully – sometimes no print preview Privacy 10 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Privacy: Chrome browser 11 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Privacy: Firefox browser 12 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Privacy: Vivaldi browser 13 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Add-ons/Plugins 4 Chrome Add-ons 1 2 3 5 14 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Firefox Add-ons Bookmarks • Local bookmarks • Bookmarks manager • Bookmarks bar 15 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Add-ons • getPocket.com • Evernote.com • Bit.ly Mobile/Smartphone browsing experience • Compacted view – Mobile friendly • Web pages built for mobile 16 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Browsers covered • (Google) Chrome • (Mozilla) Firefox • (Microsoft) Edge (formerly Internet Explorer) Other browsers • Safari • Opera • SeaMonkey • Vivaldi • Brave • Maxthon • Yandex 17 Skokie Public Library 4/16/2018 Explore on your own www.gcflearnfree.org/internetbasics/using-a-web-browser www.lifewire.com/what-is-a-browser-446234 Thank You Want a copy of this presentation? Visit www.skokielibrary.info/handouts where this presentation will be available for four weeks. 18.