Browser Basics

Back: Click this button to display the previous page in the history list. Hold down the
button to display a pop-up menu containing the the pages you can go back to in
the history list. A history list contains a hierarchy of pages you've already
viewed. You can view a subset of the history list in the Go menu or view the
entire list by choosing History from the Communicator menu.

Forward: Click this button to display the next page in the history list. Hold down the
button to display a pop-up menu containing the history list (the pages you can
go forward to). If you've retrieved a page by using the Back button or a history
menu item, using Forward displays the preceding page. Forward is only
available after you use Back or a history item.

Home: Click this button to display the home page designated in the Navigator
preferences panel. The default page is the Netscape home page.

Reload: Click this button to redisplay the current Navigator page, reflecting any changes
made since the original loading. To reload, Navigator checks the network server
to see if any change to the page has occurred. If there's no change, the original
page is retrieved from a cache. If there's a change, the updated page is retrieved
from the network server. If you press the Reload button while holding down the
Shift key (Option key on the Mac OS), Navigator retrieves the page from the
network server regardless of whether the page has been updated (the cache is
not used).

Images: This button is available when you have deselected the Advanced panel's
Automatically load images preference item and icons have been substituted
for images. Click this button to remove the substitution icons and display the
page's images.

Open: Allows you to enter the URL address and go to that site.

Search: Click this button to display a page containing a directory of Internet search
engine sites and services.

Guide: Click this button to display a pop-up menu containing links to pages that offer
tools and links for finding Internet information.

Print: Click this button to print the content area of the currently displayed page. A
dialog box lets you select printing characteristics.

Security: Click this button to display the Security Info window. This page lets you view
and interact with elements such as encryption status, personal and site
certificates, security-related applications, and passwords.

Find: Scans the page you are viewing for keywords.

Stop: Click this button to halt any ongoing transfer of page information.