The web page that loads in your browser when you first open the browser is called the home page. Each browser allows you to select which page you want it to use for this purpose (and you can even create your own with links to all your favourite sites if you want – as I [...]

When you run IE in Kiosk mode the options that there are for interacting with the system are greatly reduced (an obvious requirement for if you use kiosk mode to provide public access). Here we look at just what options are still available when running in that mode. Internet Explorer in Kiosk Mode

Bookmarking provides a way of tracking those web pages that you may want to return to in the future. Bookmarking

Your web browser stores those sites that have recently been visited in its history so as to make returning to them easier. While they will eventually drop off the list if you don’t return on a regular basis there may be other reasons why you might want to delete those entries from history sooner rather [...]

There is more to browsers than what you can do with the browser itself. Most browsers have a number of plugins and/or extensions available that you can add to your browser to enhance its functioning. Plugins and Extensions

Privacy concerns are growing in importance with more and more people concerned about the information about their browsing habits that may be able to be extracted from their browser. To help in resolving this all the major browsers now include a private browsing option. While this option in each browser does basically the same thing, [...]

When you have children who need access to the internet then there is the worry that they may accidentally or deliberately access sites of an inappropriate nature. You can’t stand and watch them the whole time and so a software solution on your computer is needed. For younger children I recommend a solution where you [...]

The person who has the browser is the person who has control over how the web pages that they visit look. Is the text in all the web sites you visit too small to read easily. Perhaps you’d prefer it if all the text were dark green rather than black. Create your own stylesheet in [...]

Files that are available for download from a web site or which are sent to you as an attachment to an email are often in a compressed format. This provides several benefits – the file itself is smaller because it is compressed and also the compressed file may in fact contain several related files all [...]

You don’t need a mouse to be able to interact with web pages when using a web browser on your computer. The browsers supply a whole range of alternative ways to do the things that most people do with a mouse. That’s one reason why the JavaScript some people try to use to stop people [...]

Not everyone uses a fast connection to the internet, there are still some people using dialup connections. Unfortunately some web page creators (they are certainly not webmasters) forget about this and create web pages that are way bigger than they ought to be making their page almost unusable to those on dialup and in many [...]

There is no such HTML tag as <marquee> and yet many browsers insist on recognising it. While you can avoid using such garbage tags in your own web pages, dealing with web pages where such garbage has been used and where your browser insists on recognising it produces a separate problem. The different browsers vary [...]