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While few keyboards actually have a button on them labelled “Back” and not all pages provide a “Back” link, there are in fact several ways that you can go back to the previous web page that you are looking at. Some of these ways are easier to use while others are more obvious.

The Back Button

It looks like Microsoft did not proceed with the planned forced upgrade to IE 7 on 12th February as they had previously indicated was scheduled. As yet I have found no explanation for why this didn’t happen. Given that IE 7 is actually a major security patch to IE 6 is ought to have been a “must have” upgrade from day one but for some reason Microsoft do not seem to want to push this anywhere near as much as they ought to be doing.

I have just been comparing the recent browser stats for my site with those from a few months ago and the comparison is quite interesting. The percentage of visitors to my site who use IE 7 has actually fallen from 29% to 26% over the past few months while IE 6 users remains relatively static at 27%. This means that once more there are more IE 6 visitors than IE 7 visitors. It also appears to indicate that people have stopped upgrading from IE 6 to IE 7 and that those who did upgrade to IE 7 have started upgrading again to a better browser than IE. The combined toal for IE visitors is now down to 54% while those using Firefox and Mozilla are now at 41%. Opera and Safari users make up most of the remainder.

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Not everyone wants to create their own web site. For those who don’t but who still want to use the web, there is a section on my site which deals specifically with browsers and email programs and how to configure and use them.

Some of the information applies to all browsers while other information in this section is specific to a particular browser. There are separate sections for Internet Explorer/Outlook, Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird, and Opera. I don’t have a Safari section yet but I guess it is just a matter of time before I add that too.

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Of course as always, if you can’t find an answer to your question on the site, you can always use the “Ask Felgall” form to email me your question which I will answer if I can.

Browsers and Email