Chapter 3. ONLINE TOOLS AND GADGETS: BROWSERS & MORE

If you've bought this book you know that the tool used to explore the World Wide Web is called a browser. (If you didn't know that, please take this book back and buy something a lot more basic. Thanks.)

Many people on the Internet use Windows, and many people who use Windows use Internet Explorer (because it's the browser that comes with Windows). But you don't need to use Internet Explorer; there are many other choices out there. (I use Opera, which I'll discuss in this chapter.) Even if you use Explorer and you're content with it, you can tweak it a little for security and a little for speed.

Once you've tweaked it, you can add to it. Search toolbars can be integrated into browsers and ...

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