We use Mozilla Firefox  
This web browser is developed by the Open-Source community and available for free (Windows, Linux, MacOS). You will find it in almost every Internet-café.

The GUI

A web browser gives you the possibility to navigate websites, by clicking links, watching media and many more.

Title Bar title of the web page

Menu Bar access to the commands

Standard Buttons Toolbar provides quick access to the commands: go ‘Back’ (long way: click the down arrow), ‘Forward’ (long way: click the down arrow), go ‘Home’ (Startseite), Favorites/Bookmarks

Stop Button (or “Escape” key) to stop browser loading a website

Reload Button to reload a webpage

Links Toolbar quick online access to webpages

Address Bar
enter the address of web sites you want to visit
arrow down on the right side: see already entered adresses

Status Bar tell about the connection, security (e.g. lock) to the right

Scroll Bars

Help: F1 – works with most Software in some Operating Systems

How it works

Web Addresses – what does a URL look like?

Prefix: www.
http: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
https: Hypertext Transfer Protocol secure
www.: World Wide Web
blabla: domain

.de: Germany
.fr: France
.uk: country code, where the site is registered in

US Abbreviations: many companies registered there, since it was cheaper
suffix Abbreviation stands for..
com Commercial (US)
org Non profit organisation (US)
edu Academic institution (US)
    GB: Organisation Type
co Company Commercial, profit making
org Non-profit organisation Charities, Unions, Trusts
ac Academic institutions Universities, Colleges and Schools
gov Government Government, Councils, Parliament Sites, Heritage Sites

 
To access a website
click into the Address Bar
write the web address “www…..”
press “Enter” or on “Go” the button next to the address bar

watch the progress: The symbol at the top right hand corner is busy until page is loaded. The Status Bar is indicating the progress of loading.

you have a pretty good chance just to guess the websites name by simply typing the name in and press “Enter”. Browsers are able to add the “http://www” at the start and a ”.com”

Auto Completition
when you start to type in an URL in the “Address Bar” a drop down menue might propose you an address which was accessed before. It is possible to turn of this feature. It probably won’t work in internet cafes due to privacy.

Error Messages:
if website is no longer available (try archive.org) or too many requests

Links can be

To which website will the Link lead?
Move your mouse pointer over the link. It turns into a pointing hand shape. Now look down to the Status Bar: It shows you the address of the link. Click on the link to go there.

websites with frames scroll bar

Tips for using Firefox