Features of a Web Browser

Home Page

This automatically loads when the browser opens; the user can return to this webpage at any time by pressing the Home button.

Filtering

This filters out content depending on the users choice and blocks websites based on content and language.

Favourties

This is a list of the user's favourite websites.

URL

This is the Uniform Resource Locator and is a website address.

Protocol

This is used to exchange information and is http://, HyperText Transfer Protocol.

History List

This keeps a list of webpages visited in the previous days and weeks. The user can set the number of days that web addresses are stored for.

Private Browsing

This means that websites visited by the user are not stored in the history list and internet files and cookies are not stored on the computer; which can help the user to not leave personal data.

Address Bar

This allows the user to enter the web address or URL of the website they wish to visit.

Navigation Bar

This allows the user to navigate between the webpages visited and to reload a webpage using the Refresh button.

Unique Browser Features

Buttons which take take the user directly to their email home page. Buttons which open chat packages, such as messenger. Buttons which print the page being viewed.

Domain Name

Consists of the name of the host server, www, and often a top level domain name such as ccea.org.

Customisation

Enable personalisation by allowing to ability to add toolbars, appearance settings, and security settings.

Ftp Protocol

Enables the user to upload webpages to web servers.

Mailto Protocol

Enables the user to write an email to a particular email address.

Search Facility

This allows user to search for information around the internet by entering a query into a web browser, which forwards it to a search engine, which then scans the internet for webpages containing the relevant data.

Differences between HTML and HTTP

HyperText Markup Language and HyperText Transfer Protocol.

Country Code

Identifies the country, e.g .uk.

Web Browsers Available

Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Safari Opera

Tabs

These allow the user to browse a number of webpages in the same browser window.