Browsing the Web with Safari
With your Internet connection set up, you’re ready to browse the web. In the following sections, I concentrate on browsing the web with Safari because it’s the web browser installed with OS X Mountain Lion.
If you don’t care for Safari, check out OmniWeb, Firefox, or Chrome, which are all free and have features you won’t find in Safari.
To begin, just open your web browser. No problem. As usual, there’s more than one way. You can launch Safari by any of these methods:
Clicking the Safari icon in the Dock or LaunchPad (look for the big blue compass that looks like a stopwatch, as shown in the margin)
Double-clicking the Safari icon in your Applications folder
Single-clicking a URL link in an e-mail or other document
Double-clicking a URL link document (a .webloc file) in the Finder
When you first launch Safari, it automatically connects you to the Internet ...
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