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Browser terms

1. File menu - Used for printing and opening additional web browers

2. Bookmarks - Under this menu you can store and retrieve bookmarks

3. Minimize, maximize, and close buttons - Control size of document window

4. Back - returns to previous page

5. Forward - this works only if you have gone back a page (or more).

6. Location field - You must click inside this field before you can type addresses into it

7. Clickable graphics - Many pictures are also links. The mouse pointer will change to a hand when passed over them

8. Text box - You must click inside this field before you can type search terms, then..

9. Search button - …then you click this button to run your search

10. Hyperlinks - Any underlined words are active links to other pages. Click on them.

11. Security indicator - Most of the time this key will remain broken.  If you are about to buy something, though, it should be whole.

12. Status bar - Different messages here tell you what the computer is doing -contacting a host, waiting for a reply, loading a page, or done (in this picture, the page is done)

13. Task bar - This shows what other programs are open.  Click on a tab to switch to that program.