SURFING

When in doubt right click out:

Right clicking your mouse will give you many options such as saving pictures, printing and refreshing the screen.

View new options and loosing old ones:

Explore the options under your browser's View menu which allow you to hide one or all of the browser toolbars. If you have a small monitor, you might not want to have them all displayed at all times.

Open a new window:

Open two or more windows for fun — and fast — surfing. Go to the File menu and select New Window (or Navigator Window) to surf with more than one browser window. Or you can hit the Command or Ctrl key (depending on platform) and then the N key. Also, if you click and hold on a link or image (or right-click), you'll get the option to open the image or link in a new window. This way, you can read a page in one window while a new page loads in the other. Or you can resize the windows and view two pages side by side. But, remember, whenever you open a new window, the Back button will be disabled. Click over to the original window to go back to previous sites.

Visiting Your Home Page:

By hitting the Home button on your browser your options on the top of the screen you will go back to your home page.

Saving Pages:

Hold down Ctrl and the S key at the same time.

Reload:

If a page doesn't load the first time you enter the URL, try hitting your browser's Reload/Refresh button a few times. This sometimes cuts you ahead of others waiting to access the site.

Stop:

Sometimes, the best way to get to what you want on a slow-loading page is to hit your browser's Stop button. Hitting Stop will often load everything on the page except some of the biggest images. If you don't get what you need because not enough of the page has loaded, hit Reload/Refresh.

Turn off images:

Depending on why you are visiting a site, its images may not be important to you — yet they are the slowest thing to load (pictures are, indeed, worth a thousand words). Though you CAN set your browser so it won't automatically load images, don't do so permanently; many pages will be difficult or even impossible to use.

Turn off Java:

Java can be very slow. If you notice that every time you come to a page with Java (look at the status bar of your browser, in the lower left, for "loading applet"), and your browser hangs and leaves you waiting for minutes, turn off your browser's automatic Java loading.

The following information was retrieved from Marz Services.