** Internet Browser **

Browser Features

Browser Basics

Import(copy) or use Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites

Web Tabs

Create Home Page(s)

Maintain Favorites

User Profiles

Toolbar Positions and Settings

Create Desktop Icon

Setup Email

Create Your Own Navigation Image

Address Bar

Setting Security on History Functions and Setting up Web Site Blocking

Search From Toolbar

Miscellaneous Features

Keyboard Controls

Browser Features:

Some Browser Basics:

There are many features of the browser that are not explained below that are obvious by looking around and getting use to the browser. Below are some basics that may not be seen so clearly.

To Import(copy) or use Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites With This Browser:

This Browser can either use its own Favorites mechanism where each user can have their own favorites, or it can use Internet Explorers Favorites mechanism. When using Internet Explorer favorites mechanism the user will see Internet Explorer favorites when displaying the favorites list. When adding a new favorite, it will be added to Internet Explorers favorites only. When using this Browsers favorites mechanism, adding a new favorite will add it to this Browsers favorites list only. To use Internet Explorer favorites mechanism, click the 'profiles' menu button on top right, click 'Create or Update User Profiles'. When the profile maint screen comes up, click on profile 'Myself' (or the profile you want to use IE favorites on). Click on the 'Use IE Favorites' checkbox. Then click the 'Update' button.

If you want to import IE favorites to a user profile, follow these instructions. Click the 'profiles' menu button on top right, click 'Create or Update User Profiles'. When the profile maint screen comes up, click on profile 'Myself' (or the profile you want to load IE favorites to). Click the 'Import IE Favorites' button, and follow instructions. All favorites will be imported(copied). If there are folders in Internet Explorer, they will also be created with original folder names as in Internet Explorer.

Web Tabs:

You can specify from 1 to 20 web tabs. The default is 6. You may want to set it to 1 in the profile maintenance screen and then click the NewTab button when you want to add another tab, or you may want a certain number of tabs visible at all times(set in profile maint screen). Holding Shift and clicking NewTab will remove a tab(from right to left). You can also right click on a tab or the tab area to add and remove tabs. Tabs can be positioned on the top of the screen, or the right of the screen, or the bottom of the screen, or no tabs visible by clicking the Tabs button. Tabs can also be set to look like buttons or tabs by holding shift and then clicking the Tabs button. When you save your toolbar settings, it will also keep what your tab type(buttons/tabs)is and the position(top,right,bottom,off) you set. You can drag and drop favorites to web tabs. You can also drag and drop any link on a website to a web tab and also drag and drop an internet address in the address bar to a web tab. You can also drag and drop links from one web browser to another if you have more than one web browser visible on the same screen(for example - drag and drop from a browser in the favorites area to a browser on the right). You can also drag an item to the blank area where tabs would be and it will create a new tab and navigate to your dragged item.

To Create a Home Page:

Key into the address bar the web address you want as your home page. When the web page has loaded, click the 'Home' menu button on the top of the screen, and then click 'Make Current Web Page Your Home Page'. Each of the tabbed webbrowsers can have their own home page, so you can have 20 home pages. When doing the above be sure which tabbed browser you are in to have the home page applied to. You can also maintain your Home pages in the Profile Mainenance screen. NOTE: The number of tabs you set for your profile may change depending on what tabs you set home pages in. This is so that your home page will launch when the browser starts(IE: you set a home page in Web 4, but your number of tabs is set to 3).

To Maintain Favorites:

Right click in the favorites area for a menu of things you can do in the favorites area. You can create folders, organize favorites and folders, copy favorites in multiple folders, open other users favorites,,etc. You can even add programs that you want to run into the favorites area. Clicking on a favorite that is a program launches the program.

To Add a Favorite to Your Favorites List:

When a web page is loaded and you want to add it to your favorites list, just click the plus sign icon in the favorites area. The web address is loaded in your favorites list and is highlighted. You can then right click on it and move or copy it to a folder if you desire or rename it to what you want. If you want to also add the favorite to Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can right click on the web page and select 'Add to favorites', this will add it to Microsoft's IE. NOTE: If you hold down the shift key and click the plus sign icon, a folder selection screen will come up so you can add your favorite to a folder.

User Profiles:

Profiles allow multiple users to have their own favorites and Browser settings. When changing some things in the Browser's menu options,,etc, they are only temporary changes. To permanently make changes, change the options in the profile maintenance screen.

To Create a User Profile:

Click the 'profiles' menu button on top right, click 'Create or Update User Profiles'. When the profile maint screen comes up, enter the User Name and Screen Title and make changes to anything else you want. All that is needed to create the profile is the user name and screen title.

To Modify a User Profile:

Click the 'profiles' menu button on top right, click 'Create or Update User Profiles'. When the profile maint screen comes up, click on the profile you want to modify. Make changes to whatever you want. When done, click the 'Update User' button, then 'exit'.

To Copy a User Profile:

Click the 'profiles' menu button on top right, click 'Create or Update User Profiles'. When the profile maint screen comes up, click on the profile you want to copy. Change the 'UserName' and 'Screen Title' fields and any other thing you want different. If you want to share favorites with the user profile you are copying to, just enter the name of the user profile containing the favorites in the 'Favorite List' field. When done, click the 'Add User' button, then 'exit'.

To Adjust ToolBar Positions and Settings:

There are 7 toolbars that can be positioned and also the Menu bar. The name of the toolbar is the 1st button on the toolbar (ie: Back toolbar, FullSceen toolbar, Find toolbar, Address toolbar, Search toolbar, User toolbar, BStyle toolbar). Toolbar postions can be adjusted by grabbing the handle to left of toolbar and moving it around (left , right, up, down). You can hide toolbars by dragging them all the way to the left. You can set any toolbar to have text on bottom, text on right, or no text at all by clicking the 'Buttons' menu, and then clicking 'ToolBar Style', and then clicking the selections you want to adjust. You can also turn on/off the toolbar names in the 'ToolBar Style' menu. When you have all your adjustments made, click the 'Save ToolBar Positions and Settings' menu button or click the 'Save' button on the Find toolbar. Everytime you run the browser it will keep the settings you saved. You can also restore your settings if needed by holding the Shift key and clicking the 'Save' button or by clicking the 'Restore ToolBar Positions and Settings' menu button. A screen will be displayed asking to restore your default settings or factory default settings. You can also scroll through your saved toolbar settings by clicking the 'Tool' button on the toolbar that pops out on the right. Note: All options in the 'ToolBar Style' menu get saved when saving toolbar positions and settings.

To Create a Desktop Icon for the Browser:

Right click the START button at bottom left corner of screen. Point to explore. Go to the directory where the browser is installed (usually c:\program files\internetbrowser). Find the file 'internetbrowser.exe'. Right click on the file and select 'Send To Desktop(Create Shortcut)'.

Setting Up Email:

Click the 'profiles' menu button on top right, click 'Create or Update User Profiles'. Click on the user profile ‘Myself’ (or the profile you want to update). In the 'Email Program' field enter the program executable for the email that you use, or enter the web address if you use web based email. (Example: c:\program files\outlook express\msimn.exe or www.yahoo.mail.com).

Before Upgrading Browser To Newer Version:

When upgrading the Browser, the installation will ask ‘Is this Installation a New Installation?’, respond by clicking the NO button. The installation will then upgrade your existing Internet Browser. The upgrade does not reinstall the following files so as not to loose your profiles and favorite settings. BrowseProfiles.txt - contains an index of all the profiles that have been setup. BrowseXXXXX.txt - where XXXXX is the profile name in the BrowseProfiles.txt file. BrowseMySelf.txt - default profile when Browser first installed. The BrowseXXXXX.txt files contain all user settings and favorites for profiles that have been setup.

Create Your Own Navigation Image:

You can make your own navigation image(image in upper right corner) by clicking the 'profiles' menu button on top, click 'Create or Update User Profiles'. When the profile maint screen comes up, click on the profile you want to modify. In the 'Navigation Busy Animation Pics' section click the little green button. On the next screen you can enter up to 20 pictures for the browser to display one after the other at the interval you set in the time interval box. Select a file by clicking the arrow button next to each box. To make a animated gif file from the internet your navigation picture, just put only that gif file name and path in the first box. Time interval is in milliseconds(ie: 1000 = 1 second). A normal speed is 50 to 500 depending on how fast you want it to go. You can click the 'Test Anim' button to test the speed.(Note: You cannot test an animated gif file with the 'Test Anim' button) On this screen you can save your settings in a file to be recalled later by clicking the 'Save Animation As' button and then giving it a name. To use the current pictures, click the 'Use These Pics' button. Then click the 'Update User' button on the profile maint screen. Also be sure that the 'My Nav Pics' radio button is selected. You can make a pretty neat navigation image by putting in icons from the 'WebSiteIcons' directory(icons from websites you have visited) in the 20 boxes and watching the browser flash through them. The directory is located where the browser was installed. Also there is a few sample animated gif files in the directory where the browser was installed(files start with Animated*.gif).

Address Bar:

The address bar is where you enter the web address to go to. If 'NoAlterAddress' is not checked in the profile maintenance screen, Browser will automatically add the www. and .com to your address if you did not enter it. (Example: You enter CNN. The address will change to www.cnn.com when you press enter or click the 'Go' button). If you do not want it to add the www. and .com, hold the 'Shift' button and press the 'Enter' key - or - hold the 'ALT' button and click the 'Go' button. You can also drag and drop favorites or links onto the address bar and the browser will automatically navigate. When you enter characters into the address bar a list may appear if a match is found for previously entered address's. You may then select an address from the list by clicking it with the mouse or by using the arrow key to select the address, then press enter. This way you can partially enter an address and select it. You can also click the dropdown button to far right of address box and select an address from your list of previously entered address's.

Setting Security on History Functions:

You can turn on password checking on History screen functions such as 'Remove Selection(s)', 'Clear History', 'Set Web Blocking', 'Enable Web Blocking', Browser menu option 'Stop Logging To History', and profile maintenance screen 'Clean On Exit' so that only the user that knows the password can perform these functions. This is useful so that another user cannot cover his/her tracks as to where he/she has been on the internet. To turn on password checking, click the 'Set Password' button on the History display screen and enter in a password that only you know. When a password has been set, performing any of the above functions will request the password be entered before allowing the function to be performed. If you want to change the password later, just click the 'Set Password' button in the History display. You will be asked for the currently set password before you can change to a new password. If you forgot the password that has been set, you can enter 'default12345' to gain access(but remember, if you are not the person that originally set the password then the person that did set the original password will start asking questions and you will eventually be caught).

Setting Up WebSite Blocking:

You can setup website blocking to keep users (or your kids) from accessing un-necessary web sites. In the History display, you can click the 'Set Web Blocking' button which will allow you to enter keywords to be checked when websites are navigated to. Then click the 'Enable Web Blocking' check box. Browser will check the website 'title', 'address', and 'downloading items' for entered keywords and allow or disallow access when a web site is navigated to. It will then(if Level 2 or level 3 checked) look at content on the website itself after the web page has loaded. It is advisable to also 'Set Password' to stop access to this function. Level 1 will check the website 'title', 'address', and 'downloading items'. Level 2 will check level 1 as well as check all text on the web page. Level 3 will check level 1 and level 2 as well as check all links, images,,etc on the web page. Level 1 is the default which will suffice in most cases, level 2 and level 3 will do some serious blocking if keyword found anywhere within a web page.

Search From Toolbar Info:

You can search from the toolbar by entering in search words in the search box, and pressing enter or clicking the search button. You can also drap and drop text onto the search box. You can change your default search engine by clicking menu 'Search', then click 'Change Default Search Engine'. Behind each search engine is a search string that gets navigated to when using the toolbar search. This search string consists of the web site for the search, followed by other parameters, followed by the search words entered. If the search function quits working, it is probably cause the web site has changed their search string (you will need to change the search string within the browser also). If this string needs to be changed or you added a new search engine, you can navigate to the search engine manually and enter your search words on the search engine web site. Then click the web sites search button. When the search results return back to you, you can highlight and copy (from the address bar) the address up to where the search words begin. Then click on menu 'Search', then click 'Change Default Search Engine'. DoubleClick the search engine you want to change the search string setting for, and paste into the box what you copied. (IE: Return search = 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=YOURSEARCHWORD1+YOURSEARCHWORD2&btnG=Google+Search', search string you copy and paste = 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q='). NOTE: You can also hold shift key and click the search button or press enter. The search results will be in the Browser on the left (Favorites Area Browser). When clicking on a particular search result, it will launch in the Browser to the right(tabbed Browser). The last statement is only true if search words were entered from the toolbar search box.

Miscellaneous Features:

Clicking on the navigation icon(icon that blinks when browser is navigating) will move the web tabs to different locations. They are on, top, right, bottom, off.

Clicking the status line on the very bottom of browser will change the web tabs from tabs to buttons.

After clicking the color button to randomly generate different colors, you can hold the shift key and click the color button to turn off the colors. NOTE: The color button changes windows system colors for all windows, when minimizing or exiting the browser the colors will revert back to the original colors as they were before the browser was started. NOTE: If the Browser ever terminates abnormally and you had random colors turned on, the whole system will retain the colors you had set. To get back your original colors, click on the Display Icon in control panel and select your original color scheme and click apply.

There are a few different ways the full screen can appear depending on options that are set. Holding shift and clicking 'FullScreen' button will override any options and show the web page in total full screen mode.

Clicking the 'AutoRefresh' button will auto refresh the currently viewed web browser. Holding shift and clicking 'AutoRefresh' will auto refresh all browsers.

Clicking the red triangle button in the favorites area will change the favorites area into another web browser for side by side web browsers. Clicking the red triangle button again will go back to the favorites list. You can also click the arrow in the favorites area to select which browser a favorite will be loaded into (left or right browser) when a favorite is clicked.

When in Split Screen mode, exiting out of the bottom browser will terminate split screen mode and return to normal.

Annoying Pop-Up screens can be eliminated by clicking the 'Options' menu button and then clicking 'Stop New or Popup Windows Always' or click the 'StopPop' button on the toolbar. Some links when clicked may be normal non-advertisement popups. They will be eliminated also. Just click the option again to allow pop-ups again. When in auto browse or auto refresh mode there is another option in the 'Options' menu to stop pop-ups just for auto refresh or auto browse mode. These modes are intended to be hands-free browsing and you don't want lots of pop-ups cluttering your screen.

Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, Acrobat Documents, Notepad Files,,etc can be loaded into the browser by clicking the 'File' menu option and then 'Open', and then finding the file you want to open. You can also launch executable programs this way.

Right clicking on toobars and backgrounds,,etc will also display the same menu options as clicking the menu button.

When not in toolbar button mode, the window can be moved around by click and hold on the screen(outside of the web page), then drag it to where you want the screen to be. This is also true for any popup or popup browser.

When the browser starts, you can make it ask which profile to use at startup. Just check the 'Ask Which Profile At Startup' box in the profile maintenance screen for any user and click 'Update User'.

Tooltips appear over most buttons and objects in the browser to help in understanding what the button or object does. Just move your mouse pointer over a button or object and within a second the tooltip should appear.

Dragging on the area between the favorites area and the web browser will adjust the favorites area size.

There is a file named Webtab.jpg in the Browser installation directory that is a default background for the 'Web Browser Screen' when switching web tabs and no web page has been loaded as of yet. You can take any jpg file and name it to Webtab.jpg in the installation directory to replace the default background.

Clicking on the progress bar will alternate between the up to 20 web browsers. This is useful if you have the web tabs turned off.

Certain functions such as Stop Popups, AutoBrowse, AutoRefresh, AutoWebSwitch,,etc will turn on a red status indicator at bottom right side of screen to remind you they are on. NOTE: Everytime SP(stop popup) blinks, it has just killed a popup.

Website official icons are stored where the Browser is installed in a directory named 'WebSiteIcons'.

Holding the shift key and clicking on a favorite will launch favorite in a smaller popup browser which can then be set to 'Always On Top'. Also, holding the shift key and clicking the Stop Popup (SPOP) button will launch a smaller popup browser for whatever you want to use it for.

You can also make any browser scroll to the right automatically when refreshing. This is useful for instance if you want to display a satelite weather map or a stock ticker,,etc in a small popup browser and you only want to see one little area of the web page instead of the full web page, and keep it on top of other screens. You can launch the weather map site or the web site with a stock ticker,,etc in a small popup browser, make the window the size you want, then position the up and down scrollbar and then position the right and left scrollbar till you see what you want to see. Then whenever you click refresh or turn on AutoRefresh the window will scroll to where you set the scrollbar positions. Then you can click 'Always On Top' and go and do other things while the weather map automatically refreshes and positions itself. Any browser screen you are on will do the horizontal(right-left) scrollbar function. You can do the same scenario in the favorites area browser or any browser.

When doing the above statement in a smaller popup browser, you can save all settings as a BrowserInBrowser (Alt-GoBack button to save). When saved it will put an entry in your favorites in a folder named 'BIB'. Anytime you click on the favorite, it will launch the popup browser with all settings that were specified when it was saved (AutoRefresh, Scroll Positions, Toolbar settings,,etc).

You can turn on and off the scrollbars on any browser by holding the shift key and clicking on the 'Home' button or if in a popup browser the 'Always On Top' button.

If you change your default search engine and you use Icon Set 5 and you want to change the search button icon, you can do so by finding an icon you want to use as the search icon(could be other search site icons in folder 'WebSiteIcons' where the browser is installed) and copying the icon into the folder where the browser is installed, and then rename it to 'SRCH1.ICO'(you will have to rename or delete the existing srch1.ico first). Then restart the browser.

When in toolbar mode, you can hold the shift button and click on the progress bar at top right to turn on/off a clock. The first time you shift-click the progress bar it will put the clock at bottom right, shift-clicking again will put the clock at top right, shift-clicking again or clicking on the clock will turn it off. The setting will be saved when saving toolbars.

AutoBrowse can be launched 3 different ways. Just clicking the AutoBrowse button will start AutoBrowse in web1. Holding shift and clicking AutoBrowse will launch a popup window and start AutoBrowsing(sets 'always on top' also). Holding Alt and clicking AutoBrowse will launch a wide but thin popup window at bottom center of screen(with only borders showing) and start AutoBrowsing. You can have 3 different AutoBrowse lists running at the same time(this is set in Auto Browse setup screen by clicking 'Select AB List Startup' button).

When you have a small popup browser with all the toolbars,,etc turned off, you can move your mouse to the top of the window and the toolbar will come down. You can then right click on the toolbar to get the top title bar to reappear. You can also hold the shift button and click the back button to turn all bars on and off.

Browser Color settings, Toolbar Settings, BrowserInBrowser Settings, Button Icons, Background Images, Navigation Icons, Groups, and AutoBrowse Lists can all be shared amongst users on other PC's by copying the appropriate file(s) into the other users Browser install folder(usually C:\Documents and Settings\(yourusername}\Application Data\InternetBrowser). If Running Windows Vista, the files will be in C:\Users\(yourusername}\AppData\Roaming\InternetBrowser. Random Windows System Color File names begin with BROWSECOLOR*.txt. BrowserInBrowser files begin with BIB*.txt. Non Random Windows System colors and XP Toolbar colors files begin with COLORBROWSER*.txt. Saved Toolbar positions and settings files end with *.TOOL. Groups are saved in files that end with *.group.

Keyboard Controls and Functions:

Press Ctrl+K for a list of keyboard controls and functions.