Tech Tips

July 2004

Scrolling Through History

by Barbara J. Feldman July 30, 2004

In many browsers, users with a scroll mouse can move forward and backward through their browsing history by holding down the Shift key and rolling the navigation wheel on the mouse. Scroll two clicks, and you are two pages back in your history. Moving forward in history is just as easy: hold down Shift and [...]

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Tabbed Browsing

by Barbara J. Feldman July 30, 2004

Tabbed browsing is a browser feature that lets you open multiple web pages in a single browser window. It facilitates fast switching between open web pages without all the clutter associated with multiple windows. It is available in Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Netscape 7.1 and Opera, but not Internet Explorer.

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Java Plug-In

by Barbara J. Feldman July 27, 2004

Java, which is a required plug-in for many online games, is no longer included with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and must be downloaded and installed separately. If you do not see a Java option in Internet Explorer/Tools/Internet Options/Advanced, you can download the Java runtime environment from Sun Microsystems.

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Bigger E-Mail Accounts

by Barbara J. Feldman July 19, 2004

Users of Web-based e-mail services have Google to thank for huge recent increases in their storage limits. After Google announced 1 GB of storage for its free Gmail service (still in beta test), all the major e-mail players followed suit. Yahoo.com now offers 100 MB of free storage; MSN Hotmail has 250 MB of free [...]

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