Surfing and Searching
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Surfing and Searching

Once you have a connection to the Internet, you can surf with Konqueror just as you can with any other browser.

Type a URL into the Location Toolbar window, press Enter or left click on the Go button at the right hand end of the Location Toolbar, and Konqueror will download and display that page. If you have visited the page before, Konqueror's Automatic Text Completion feature can help you type the URL a second time, or you could look through the History page in the Navigation Panel. If you want to use one of the web's search engines, Konqueror's Web Shortcuts feature can make this easier.

Left click on a link in the page to go there.

To open a link in a new instance of Konqueror, leaving the old page still visible, middle mouse button click on the link or right click on it and select the Open in New Window option. Alternatively, you might want to Open in New Tab. Tabbed Browsing will let you hold a number of pages in one Konqueror window and quickly switch between them with a single mouse click.

You could also select the multiple view mode with Ctrl+Shift+L or the Menubar Window->Split View Left/Right option which will let you see different pages at the same time. This can be useful if you are looking through a complicated set of HTML pages, but make sure the little link box at the bottom right hand corner is empty when you are doing this.

To go back to the previous page use the Alt+Left Arrow shortcut, the Back button on the Toolbar, or the Menubar Go->Back option.

Similarly, once you have gone back you can go forward by using Alt+Right Arrow, the Forward button, or the Menubar Go->Forward option.

If you want to stop the download for any reason then use the Esc key, the Toolbar Stop button or the Menubar View->Stop item.

When you are viewing a web page you should see two new icons in the Toolbar, looking like magnifying glasses with small + and - symbols. Use these to adjust the size of the text in the page if you find it difficult to read. How well this works will depend on how the web page has been constructed.

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