Finding Your Way on the Web 574 3. Choose an option: • Turn On Pop-up Blocker • Turn Off Pop-up Blocker. If it’s on, you’ll turn it off . . . or the other way around. Configuring the IE7 Pop-up Blocker Windows Internet Explorer includes several options for how its built-in pop- up blocker works. To make settings, do this: 1. Click the Tools menu. 2. Hover your pointer over the Pop-up Blocker menu item. A window opens. 3. Select Pop-up Blocker Settings. See Figure 4-6. Figure 4-5: You can turn the pop-up blocker on or off with a setting from the Tools menu; Internet Explorer 7 is delivered by Microsoft with the blocker enabled. 42 140925-bk08ch04.qxp 4/8/08 12:52 PM Page 574 Book VIII Chapter 4 Spinning the Web Finding Your Way on the Web 575 4. If you choose, type a URL in the Address of Website to Allow text box. When you visit one of these sites, the blocker is automatically turned off. Why would you do this? Some sites are designed to display essential information such as prices or product explanations as pop-ups, rather than by taking you to a different page. 5. If you choose, enable the Play a Sound When a Pop-Up Is Blocked check box. 6. If you choose, enable the Information Bar When a pop-up Is Blocked check box. This way you’re notified when something is blocked. 7. Click the Filter Level drop-down arrow. 8. Choose an option: • Low allows all pop-ups from secure sites. • Medium blocks most automatic pop-ups. • High is supposed to bar the door to all pop-ups. Figure 4-6: Settings for the built-in Pop-up Blocker allow you to permit certain sites to avoid the rules. 42 140925-bk08ch04.qxp 4/8/08 12:52 PM Page 575 Finding Your Way on the Web 576 My favorite back pages Do you remember the time you found that absolutely wonderful page about the best travel sights in Longyearbyen on the Svalbard archipelago near the North Pole? Could you help me out with the URL? I can’t find my notes where I wrote down the address. Actually there’s a much better way to remember web sites to which you may one day want to return. What you need to do is to save the address as a Favorite. Once that is done, you can quickly go to your Favorites list and click a listing to return. Saving a Web page as a favorite With Internet Explorer running, do this: 1. Go to the Web page you want to save as a favorite. 2. Click the Add to Favorites button. It’s at the upper-left corner of the browser; its icon is a plus mark on top of a star. 3. Click Add to Favorites. Or press Ctrl + D. The Name box fills with a name for the Web page based on the preassigned title for the site; you can change that name by typing in text of your own. 4. Choose a folder in which to store the favorite. You can use the preassigned folders of the Favorites list or add ones of your own. 5. Click Add. See Figure 4-7. Opening a Web page from the Favorites list To return to a Web page you have saved as a favorite, do this: 1. Open Internet Explorer. 2. Click the Favorites Center button. It’s marked in IE7 with a five-pointed star icon. 3. Locate the Favorites Center window. The Center has three options: Favorites, Feeds, and History. 4. Click Favorites if it isn’t already selected. Your Favorites are listed. 5. Click the Web page you want to open. 42 140925-bk08ch04.qxp 4/8/08 12:52 PM Page 576 Book VIII Chapter 4 Spinning the Web Finding Your Way on the Web 577 Organizing your favorites Too much of a good thing, of course, can lead to a messy and disorganized list of favorites, which defeats the whole purpose of having the list. The good news is that you can use the Windows structure of folders and subfold- ers to organize your Favorites by subject, project, date, or any other struc- ture you want to apply. To organize your favorites, do this: 1. Click the star-shaped Favorites Center icon. 2. Locate the three tabs: Favorites, RSS, and History. 3. Click Favorites. Your Favorites are listed. 4. Right-click anywhere in the Favorites Center 5. Click Create New Folder. 6. Click + drag the Favorite to the folder of your choice. Figure 4-7: When you add a Favorite to your Web browser, you can return with the click of a mouse. Favorites can later be edited, reordered, or deleted as necessary. 42 140925-bk08ch04.qxp 4/8/08 12:52 PM Page 577 Finding Your Way on the Web 578 Keeping tab of multiple Web pages The first versions of Web browsers were only capable of displaying one page at a time. If you clicked on a link that was designed to open up without clos- ing the current page, your computer would be instructed to load a second copy of the browser . . . or a third or a fourth. Although modern machines and current versions of Windows can have more than one instance of a browser (and many other programs) running, that gen- erally isn’t an efficient way to use your laptop’s memory and other resources. Your system will slow down and may eventually crash. With the arrival IE7 (preceded by Mozilla Firefox, which introduced the con- cept to Windows-based system) users can now open multiple tabs to hold many pages. Only one copy of the Web browser needs to be running, and you can click the various tabs to quickly switch your view from one page to another. ✦ To open a Web page on a new tab, click the New Tab button (an empty tab to the right of the last currently running tab). ✦ To close a tab, click the small X button on the right side of the tab. ✦ Click the Quick Tabs icon to see smaller versions of all open pages at the same time. The icon shows four stacked boxes to the left of the tabs. See Figure 4-8. Figure 4-8: You can jump from one tab to another in IE7 by clicking its tab or by clicking the down arrow to the left of the tabs. To view all current tabs, click the Quick Tabs icon. 42 140925-bk08ch04.qxp 4/8/08 12:52 PM Page 578 Book VIII Chapter 4 Spinning the Web Finding Your Way on the Web 579 Saving a group of tabs Say that you’ve developed your own group of Web pages that cover all of your basic interests: news, sports, a stock ticker, and an online auction site for used baseball gloves. Or perhaps you like to check six newspapers every morning. IE7 allows you to save a group of tabs as a single Favorite: 1. Open Internet Explorer. 2. Open multiple web sites on tabs. 3. Click the Add to Favorites button. 4. Click Add Tab Group to Favorites. 5. Type a folder name. 6. Click Add. To open the saved group, follow along: 1. Open Internet Explorer. 2. Click the Favorites Center button. 3. Click the folder you want to open. 4. Click the folder’s drop-down arrow. All the Web pages in the group open on separate pages. Returning to the same set of tabs without saving them One way to temporarily save a collection of tabs is to tell the browser as much when you close Internet Explorer. If you click the red X to close IE7 (or if you use the Alt + F4 key combination for the same purpose) the browser displays a small window asking: Do You Want to Close All Tabs? To instruct the browser to start with all of the current wWeb pages running on tabs the next time you run it, enable the Open These the Next Time I Use Internet Explorer check box. (If you don’t see that check box, click the Show Options arrow to expand choices.) Turning off tabs Although tabbed browsing is a nice addition to Internet Explorer, you can choose to turn off that feature: 1. Open Internet Explorer 7 (or later). 2. Click Tools ➪ Internet Options. 42 140925-bk08ch04.qxp 4/8/08 12:52 PM Page 579 Taking Internet Explorer 7 Shortcuts 580 3. Choose the General tab. 4. In the Tabs section, click Settings. 5. Click the Enable Tabbed Browsing checkbox to clear it. 6. Click OK twice. 7. Close Internet Explorer. 8. Reopen Internet Explorer. The change is enabled. Feeding your browser A feed or syndicated content is a form of information that can be automati- cally delivered to your browser. It’s a way to track news or changes to a web site or a blog without having to load the page. Two common types of feeds are ✦ RSS. Really Simple Syndication is a type of Web feed that can deliver news headlines and alerts, updates to blogs, podcasts, and other infor- mation. The document can contain the entire document or merely a summary of changes. Users can read RSS content with a specialized RSS reader or through the built-in facilities of IE7. ✦ XML. The Extensible Markup Language is a way for authors to format their content so that it can be displayed on a variety of devices and using a number of different operating systems. RSS is a form of XML, and IE7 can work with feeds sent using either specification. When you visit a web site that offers this sort of content, the Feeds button on the toolbar lights up. (The button is an orange icon that looks like it is radiating out a message from an antenna.) Click the button to display the feed or to subscribe to it. Taking Internet Explorer 7 Shortcuts Tables 4-1 through 4-9 help you on your way. Table 4-1 General IE Shortcuts Task Shortcut Full Screen Mode on or off F11 Cycle through: Address Bar, Refresh Tab button, Search Box, and items on a Web page 42 140925-bk08ch04.qxp 4/8/08 12:52 PM Page 580 Book VIII Chapter 4 Spinning the Web Taking Internet Explorer 7 Shortcuts 581 Task Shortcut Open the current Web page in a new Ctrl + F window Print the current page Ctrl + P Select all items on the current page Ctrl + A Zoom in Ctrl + + Zoom out Ctrl + - Zoom to 100 percent Ctrl + 0 Table 4-2 Navigation Task Shortcut Go to home page Alt + Home Go backward Alt + Left Go forward Alt + Right Refresh page F5 Refresh page and the browser cache Ctrl + F5 Stop downloading page Esc Table 4-3 Favorites Center Shortcuts Task Shortcut Open Favorites Ctrl + I Open Favorites in pinned mode Ctrl + Shift + I Organize Favorites Ctrl + B Add current page to Favorites Ctrl + D Open Feeds Ctrl + J Open Feeds in pinned mode Ctrl + Shift + J Open History Ctrl + H Open History in pinned mode Ctrl + Shift + H *In Pinned Mode, the Favorites window doesn’t close after clicking a link. Table 4-4 Tab Shortcuts (IE7 and Later) Task Shortcut Open link in new background tab Ctrl + left mouse button Open link in new foreground tab Ctrl + Shift + left mouse button (continued) 42 140925-bk08ch04.qxp 4/8/08 12:52 PM Page 581 Taking Internet Explorer 7 Shortcuts 582 Table 4-4 ((ccoonnttiinnuueedd)) Task Shortcut Open Quick Tab view Ctrl + Q Close tab (If only one tab is open, Ctrl + W closes window) Open new tab in the foreground Ctrl + T or Double-click an empty space on the tab row Open new tab in the foreground, from Alt + Enter the Address bar View list of open tabs Ctrl + Shift + Q Switch to next tab Ctrl + Tab Switch to previous tab Ctrl + Shift + Tab Switch to a specific tab number Ctrl + number (any number between 1 and 8) Table 4-5 Address Bar Shortcuts Task Shortcut Select the Address Bar Alt + D Automatically add http://www. to the Ctrl + Enter beginning, and .com to the end of text entered in the Address Bar Automatically add http://www. to the Ctrl + Shift + Enter beginning, and the domain suffix you have specified to the end of text entered in the Address Bar Specify the default domain suffix for Tools ➪ Internet Options ➪ Languages automatic insertion in the Address Bar Open in a new tab the web site address Alt + Enter that has been entered in the Address Bar View list of previously typed Web addresses F4 Table 4-6 Instant Search Box Task Shortcut Select the Instant Search Box Ctrl + E View list of search providers Ctrl + ↓ Open search results in a new tab Alt + Enter 42 140925-bk08ch04.qxp 4/8/08 12:52 PM Page 582 Book VIII Chapter 4 Spinning the Web Taking Internet Explorer 7 Shortcuts 583 Table 4-7 Advanced Tasks Task Shortcut Open the Windows Run box to launch a ˇ + R program, folder, document, or Internet resource Disable all add-ons to Internet Explorer ˇ + R, then enter (Using the Windows Run box) iexplore.exe – extoff Find and install add-ons to Internet Explorer Tools ➪ Manage Add-ons ➪ Find More Add-ons Turn on AutoComplete to instruct Internet Tools ➪ Internet Options ➪ Advanced ➪ Use Explorer to automatically fill in web site inline AutoComplete addresses based on your previous history Temporarily display the Menu Bar at the top Alt of the screen Permanently display the Menu Bar at the Tools ➪ Menu Bar top of the screen Change how tabs work in Internet Explorer Tools ➪ Internet Options. On the General tab, locate the Tabs section, then click Settings Delete cookies, passwords, form data, Tools ➪ Delete Browsing History history, and temporary Internet files Print current page Ctrl + P Print part of the current page Use the onscreen pointer to select part of the page, press Ctrl + P, click Selection ➪ click Print Table 4-8 Basic Commands in Firefox and Internet Explorer Task Microsoft Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Add Bookmark Ctrl + D Ctrl + D Back Backspace Backspace or or Alt + ← Alt + ← Bookmarks Ctrl + I Ctrl + B Ctrl + I Caret Browsing N/A F7 Close Tab Ctrl + W Ctrl + W Ctrl + F4 Close Window Ctrl + W Ctrl + Shift + W Alt + F4 Alt + F4 Complete .com Address 2 Ctrl + Enter Ctrl + Enter Complete .net Address 2 N/A Shift + Enter (continued) 42 140925-bk08ch04.qxp 4/8/08 12:52 PM Page 583 . Markup Language is a way for authors to format their content so that it can be displayed on a variety of devices and using a number of different operating systems. RSS is a form of XML, and IE7 can. Internet Explorer. The change is enabled. Feeding your browser A feed or syndicated content is a form of information that can be automati- cally delivered to your browser. It’s a way to track news or. Click Add to Favorites. Or press Ctrl + D. The Name box fills with a name for the Web page based on the preassigned title for the site; you can change that name by typing in text of your own. 4.