acn112agabon: Activity 4

Answer the following questions. Write you answers in MS Word. Cite your references.

What is a web browser? How does it work?- a web browser is a software program that interprets the coding language of the World Wide Web in graphic form, displaying the translation rather than the coding. This allows anyone to “browse the Web” by simple point and click navigation, bypassing the need to know commands used in software languages.
What is a bookmark? – A bookmark is a page keeper. A reader inserts a bookmark into the pages of a book when he or she stops reading. This way when it's time to read again, the reader can open the pages where the bookmark is to find the place in the book where he or she left off at rather than trying to remember the page number. Bookmarks save having to flip through the book and read sentences trying to find the exact place to re-start reading the book. A bookmark can be made from many different materials from a simple piece of cardboard to a specially made plastic clip to an ornately embellished fabric creation. Bookmarks may be mass produced and sold in stores or may be hand made.
What is the purpose of a web [browser] cache? - Your browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.—whatever application you use to surf the web) has a folder in which certain items that have been downloaded are stored for future access. Graphic images (such as buttons, banners, icons, advertising, graphs, and color bars), photographs, and even entire web pages are examples of cache items. When going to a page on a website, your computer will check its cache folder first to see if it already has those images and, if so, it won't take the time to download them again. This makes for a faster loading of the page. Cache folders can get quite large, however, and can occupy 40-to-50-to-100 megabytes or more of hard drive space, storing graphics for sites you may never visit again, so it may be wise for those with storage concerns to empty the cache periodically. That will also enable the browser to access updated web pages without the older cache item interfering. You can also limit how much cache is stored. Here's how to do it:
What is a web [browser] plugin?- A web browser plug-in (sometimes just spelled plugins) are additional pieces of software that add extra capabilities to your web browser, such as the ability to view movies, run Java applets, or see Flash animations. Unfortunately, since plug-ins run with all the privileges of real applications, they can do absolutely anything to your computer. That means you should never, ever agree to install a plug-in unless you have very good reason to trust the source. Keep in mind that the Flash plug-in comes with your computer, and most systems also come with a Java plug-in. Other mainstream plug-ins include real player. You will almost never have a good reason to install a plug-in that isn't one of these, so say "no" when your browser asks you to install one, unless you have an excellent reason to do otherwise.
Choose three types of web browsers and answer the following questions for each browser.

Safari

How do you enable tabbed browsing? private browsing? - First, open your Safari browser by clicking the Safari icon in the dock. Then, Click on Safari in the main menu, located in the top left hand corner of your screen. When the drop-down list appears, choose Preferences. Select "Tabs" from the Preferences menu, which is now overlaying your browser window. Once "Tabs" is selected, you will notice the following checkboxes are available:

* Enable Tabbed Browsing

* Select new tabs as they are created (can only be selected if Enable Tabbed Browsing is checked)

* Always show tab bar (can only be selected if Enable Tabbed Browsing is checked)

How do you set homepages?- Click on Safari in your Safari menu, located at the top of your screen. When the drop-down menu appears, choose Preferences. Then, Select General from the Preferences menu, which is now overlaying your browser window. Once General is selected, you will notice a section labeled Home Page in the main window of the Preferences dialog.
Directly to the right of the "Home Page" label is an edit field containing your current home page URL. In the example below, Safari's current home page is http://www.apple.com. To modify this address, simply paste the contents of the set field and place it with the desired web address.
Directly below this set field you will see a button labeled Set to Home Page. Clicking this button will set your home page setting to whatever page you are currently viewing within the Safari browser.
Once you have completed your setting, close the Safari Preferences dialog by clicking the red circle/x located in the top left hand corner of the box.

How do you customize search providers?
How do you bookmark a page?- Step 1: Just open your Safari and go to the webpage you want to bookmark. If you use tabs, you can open multiple webpages in tabs to bookmark them as a collection. Step 2: "Choose Bookmarks" > "Add Bookmark", or "Bookmarks" > "Add Bookmarks for These Tabs". (If the Bookmarks menu is not visible, press the Alt key to show the menu bar).
Step 3: Type a name for the bookmark or collection in the dialog that appears. Step 4: Specify where you want to keep the bookmark or collection. You can add it to the bookmarks bar, the Bookmarks menu, or to a collection if you have created any. Step 5: Click "Add".

That's all, OK. You will successfully complete to bookmark a webpage in Safari 4. It is really easy with just several simple steps! How do you organize your book marks? - First click on the “open-book” icon located on the bookmarks toolbar. This will open up Safari’s bookmark organizer. You will see there are several bookmarks already included from the default install. On the left section is the categories or ‘Collections’ headers. Clicking on each collection will display the book marked pages on the right side with the site name and URL. You can really do a lot in this bookmark manager. If you right click an entry in either section you will be able to choose from many different options such as Open, Delete, Edit, etc… To create a new Collection simply click the ‘+’ button. This will start a new field for you to custom name. You can also drag and drop folders into other categories or change the order. Also, notice that your Internet Explorer and Mozilla (including FireFox) bookmarks will automatically be imported during the installation.

How do you clear the cache? - • Open Clear All History main window and select Settings.
• Adjust desired scheduler option(s) and click 'Apply' button
• Select What to Clear -> Browser History item.
• Open 'Safari' tab and put the check mark 'Clear cache' option

• Click 'Apply' button.

clear cache in Safari browser manually
• Open the 'Edit' menu and select 'Empty Cache'.
• Click 'Empty' to confirm that you want to empty the cache.

clear Safari cache using Clear All History.

• Double-click on Clear All History desktop icon

• Click 'Tools' button.

• Select What to Clear -> Browser History item. • Open 'Safari' tab and check 'Clear cache' option.

• Click 'Clear now' button or click 'Clear All' button in program toolbar.

How do you install a plugin? - Download and install SIMBL by pointing your browser to the web address below. Close your Safari browser if it's open on your computer.
Download GreaseKit from the address below. Then, install it by copying the GreaseKit.bundle file to the folder ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. If your plugins directory does not already exist, then create it.
Open Safari once more. You should see a new entry called GreaseKit in your Safari menu.
Install Greasemonkey scripts by visiting the Userscripts link below and choose a script to install. Click the "Install this script" button on the Safari installation dialogue box that will pop up. Confirm the installation when prompted.
Check your GreaseKit menu to see if the script you selected is appearing in it. Confirm that the script is working by trying it out. Then you can go back to the Userscripts site to install other Greamonkey scripts.

The steps above show how to install Safari plugin 2.0, and this procedure will work for any Safari plugin. Once you have found the website with the plugin, follow the steps as outlined and you will be enjoying the enhanced features of the plugin on your Safari browser in no time.