Menu Bar:
To show additional menu bars on IE, right-click on the top of the
page, Figure (2-14), to show a number of menus, including:
1- Menu Bar
2- Favorites bar
3- Command Bar.
4- Status Bar
Figure (2-14) showing additional menu bars by clicking with the right
mouse button at the top of the page
The "" sign in Figure (2-14) indicates that the menus are visible
as in Figure (2-15).
Figure (2-15) Addition menu bars appear on the browser
1-:Menu Bar
1- Menu bar options: Menu Bar
This bar is usually seen at the top of the screen in browsers and
includes (Figure 2-16):
File: includes opening new tab, opening duplicate page, saving, ...
printing, and exiting the web page (this list is the same as other
office programs).
Figure (2-16) the contents of the menu bar
Saving web pages: Web pages can be saved to a computer while
browsing to websites, to view these pages without connecting to the
Internet, copy them to another device, or print them. To save a web
page, the following is done:
1. From the File menu, choose Save as (Ctrl + s).
2. We define where the page is saved (stored).
3. In the File Name box, write a name for the page (with the ability
to save it with its default name).
4. In the "Save as type" box, specify the file type and perform the
following:
- To save all the files needed to display this page, including
graphics and frames, we choose the type Web Page, Complete. This
option saves the page and a folder containing shapes.
- To save all the required information along with the shapes, we
choose Web Archive to display this page in a single file.
- To save the current html page, we select Web Page Html Only. This
option saves the information without saving the shapes, sounds, and
other files.
To save the text only, select Text Only. This option saves the page
in a text file format.
Note: Pictures can be saved and downloaded to the computer by right-
clicking on the image, then we choose Save Picture as.
Edit: includes cut, copy, paste, and select all for web documents and
search within the web page.
View: It includes showing toolbars, options (home page, back,
progression, pause), and controlling the size of the web page ...
Favorites: Allows to store links or jump to favorite webpages.
Tools: Includes deleting browsing history (Ctrl + Shift + Del),
previewing downloaded files (Ctrl + J) ... and browser customization
options.
Help (F1): Allows access to information and advice provided by
Internet Explorer.
2- - Menu bar options: Menus Bar
The menu bar includes the options from the right (2-17):
Figure (2-17) the menu bar
- Help :Allows access to information and tips provided by the
browser Internet Explorer.
-Tools :It includes a group of options, the most important of which
is the Internet Options.
-Safety: Provides security options when browsing webpages or
uploading and downloading files (they will be explained in detail
later in this chapter).
-Page :Opening a new window (web page) ..., as shown in Figure (2-
18).
Figure (2-18) Contents of security lists / pages / commands
- Print (Ctrl + P): Print the open web page. To print a webpage,
we choose the Print command, then specify the print options, and
click the Print button, Figure (2-19).
Figure (2-19) printing options
- Mail: Open the email program.
- RSS You can subscribe to a feed by doing the following:
1. Click an RSS Feed to discover the feeds on the webpage.
2. Click on a specific feed (if more than one is available). If there is only one feed,
it goes directly to the page.
3. Click Subscribe to this feed.
4. Type a name for the feed and select the folder in which to create the feed.
5. Click Subscribe
3 -Status bar:
Usually located at the bottom of the window, and indicates the
website address while searching on the Internet, giving an idea of
the strength of the connection, with the possibility of making a
window enlargement by pressing Figure (2-20).
Figure (2-20) Information bar
2-2-2 Additional tasks in Internet Explorer
View and delete browsing history
Lists of webpages visited a while ago (day, two days, week, ...)
can be viewed from the prompt History (Ctrl + H) or from the
History tab in the Favorites menu.
The archive list or part of it is deleted as follows:
1- Click Tools - Security, and then click Delete Browsing
History.
2- We select the "Preserve favorite website data" check box if we
do not wish to delete the cookies and files associated with
websites in the favorites list. Figure (2-21).
Figure (21-2) deleting browsing history
3- We mark the check box next to each category of information that
we want to delete.
4- Click Delete. Delete
Temporary Internet Files Settings:
While browsing the Internet, the browser stores the frequently
visited pages on the computer, so that these pages can be quickly re-
displayed if browsed again, as it reads these pages from the hard
disk and not from the Internet.
-Temporary Internet files are stored in a special folder, Temporary
Internet Files, and through your Internet browser you can see the
contents of this folder.
-It is possible to increase the space allowed for storing temporary
files, and change the storage location of temporary files to another
folder, and it can also specify when the browser will check for newer
versions of the locally stored pages.
-To control all of the above, choose Internet options from the Tools
menu, then the General tab, and the Temporary Internet Files section
as follows:
-From the Tools menu, then by choosing the Internet Options command,
then the General Gateway, and in the Temporary Internet Files
section, Browsing History, as in Figure (2-22).
- To delete the temporary Internet files, press the button "Delete
Browsing files", and then a confirmation message will appear, then
click OK.
- To delete the files that we review offline, we choose to delete all
offline content before pressing OK. It is also possible to delete the
cookies that the site leaves in this folder in order to speed up the
connection to it again.
Figure (22-2) Deleting Temporary Internet Files
Use the Internet Explorer Download Manager
Download Manager maintains a list of downloaded files and notifies
if any of them are malicious software. It also allows a download
process to be paused or restarted, as well as an indication of the
location of the downloaded files on the computer. The downloaded
files are viewed and managed from:
1- Click on Tools then click on View downloads, or from Ctrl +
J. As in Figure (2-23).
Figure (23-2) Managing and viewing downloaded files
2- "Track downloads" can be performed when a file is downloaded. It
appears at the top of "Download Manager". The downloaded files also
appear in the order they were downloaded with information such as:
name and file extension, origin website, size, location on the
computer.. . There are procedures available with the file downloading
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process such as opening and pausing.
3- A file can be removed from the "Download Manager" by first
selecting it, then clicking the "Remove this download from the list"
button. To remove all files from the Download Manager, click the
Clear List button
4- From the Download Manager, the following operations are performed
by right-clicking on the file:
Delete the file:- delete the file from the computer from the Download
Manager, and this does not lead to deleting it from the computer.
- Copy download link: Copy the file path to send it (for example) to
someone else.
Go to the download web page: Opens the webpage from which the file
was downloaded.
- Open the containing folder: Open the location of the file on the
computer.
- Notification of the risk of this file: Open a SmartScreen web page,
where a malicious program can be reported.
- Restart security checks on this file: Run all security checks,
including the "SmartScreen Filter" on the file.
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If you are not prompted for a location when downloading a file, the
file is automatically stored in the default storage location. You can
change the default download location on your computer by clicking
Options, then browsing for the desired location, and then clicking
OK.
If you are not prompted for a location when downloading a file, the
file is automatically stored in the default storage location. You can
change the default download location on your computer by clicking
Options, then browsing for the desired location, and then clicking
OK..