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Exercises With The Browser

The document provides a series of exercises for users to practice various functions and features of web browsers, including changing homepage settings, managing downloads, organizing bookmarks, and blocking pop-ups. It also lists keyboard shortcuts for Chrome and other browsers to enhance browsing efficiency. Additionally, it covers tasks like searching for Creative Commons documents, viewing source code, and using advanced search operators.
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Exercises With The Browser

The document provides a series of exercises for users to practice various functions and features of web browsers, including changing homepage settings, managing downloads, organizing bookmarks, and blocking pop-ups. It also lists keyboard shortcuts for Chrome and other browsers to enhance browsing efficiency. Additionally, it covers tasks like searching for Creative Commons documents, viewing source code, and using advanced search operators.
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Exercises with the browser

Do the exercises both with Internet Explorer, and with Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge or
Google Chrome:
Change your browser's homepage.
2- Indicate to the browser that downloads should be made in the folder of your choice (e.g.:
Desk
3- Save as bookmarks or favorites the addresses you use the most (e.g., Blog of
computer science, institute page, moodle, gmail...). Organize these bookmarks.
4- Block pop-ups, except for moodle.
5- Delete the browsing history and cookies.
6- Indicates that passwords for the sites are not to be remembered.
7- Install add-ons to your Firefox (e.g., Video Download Helper, Feedly). Look for some.
that may be interesting for you.
8- Open multiple tabs at once.
9- Return to the previous page.
10- Reload the page.
11- Return to your homepage without closing the browser.
12- Stop the loading of a page.
13- Search for documents with a Creative Commons license.
14- Look for images, images with a certain color scheme, with a certain
size, in line drawing, faces, photos... on a topic that you like.
15- Save one of these images on the desktop.
Look for short videos about the content of this subject.
17- Download one of them to the desktop.
18 - Look for news from the last month about vocational training.
19- Perform various searches using the search operators and the menu of
advanced google search.
20- Find out what RSS is, what its symbol is, how to subscribe to a page to read
the news.
21- How can you view the source code of a website?
Ctrl + N: Open new window. On Mac it is⌘ + N.
Ctrl + Shift + N: Open a new window in mode
incognito. On Mac it is⌘ + Shift + N.
Ctrl + T: Open a new tab and go to it. On Mac it is⌘ + T.
Ctrl + Shift + T: Reopen a recently closed tab and go
to her. On Mac it's⌘ + Shift + T.
Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + PgDn: Go to the next tab.
Mac is⌘ + Option + Der.
Ctrl + Shift + Tab or Ctrl + Page Up: Go to tab
previous. On Mac it is⌘ + Option + Left
Ctrl + 1 to 8: Go to a specific tab. On Mac it is⌘ + 1 to 8.
Ctrl + 9: Go to the last tab. On Mac it is⌘ + 9.
Alt + Home: Open home page in active tab.
Alt + Left Arrow: Open the previous page in the history
active tab. On Mac it is⌘ + [ o⌘ Left Arrow
Alt + Right Arrow: Open the next page in the history
active tab. On Mac it is⌘ + ] o⌘ Right Arrow
Ctrl + W or Ctrl + F4: Close active tab.
Ctrl + Shift + W: Close all tabs and Chrome.
Ctrl + Shift + Q or Alt + F4: Exit Chrome. On Mac
es ⌘ + Q.

Shortcuts for Chrome functions


If there is something that some of us depend on
too much of the mouse is to use Chrome functions,
like bookmarks or the task manager.
But if we are writing at a good pace, we might want to
to know some shortcuts that allow us to perform these and others
options without having to take your hands off the keyboard.

Especially useful are those that allow us


unselecting each of the elements of the
interface, as well as opening the search menu to
locate specific words and navigate through the results.
Here are all the shortcuts to be able to perform these and many more.
other actions.
Alt + F, Alt + E or F10: Open menu.
Ctrl + Shift + B: Show or hide the bookmarks bar.
On Mac it is⌘ + Shift + B.

Ctrl+Shift+O: Open bookmarks manager.


Mac is⌘ + Option + B.
Ctrl + H: Open history. On Mac it is⌘ + Y.
Ctrl + J: Open Downloads page. On Mac it is⌘ + Shift
+ J.
Shift + Esc: Open Chrome Task Manager.
F6: Select and toggle between the address bar, bar
from markers and the page content.
Shift + F6: Select and toggle in reverse order:
content, markers, and addresses.
Ctrl + F or F3: Open the search bar. On Mac it is⌘ +
F.
Ctrl + G: Move forward on the page among the results of
the search. On Mac it is⌘ + G.
Ctrl + Shift + G: Go back on the page between the
search results. On Mac it is⌘ + Shift + G.
Ctrl + Shift + J or F12: Open tools for
developers. On Mac it is⌘ + Option + I.
Ctrl + Shift + Delete: Clear browsing data. In
Mac is⌘ + Shift + Delete.
F1: Open help.
Ctrl + Shift + M: Change user session or open
incognito mode. On Mac it is⌘ + Shift + M.

Keyboard shortcuts in the bar of


directions
Generally, when using the address bar we
we limit clicking on it and choosing the
direction of the page we want to enter or the term
the phrase we want to search on Google. But yes, also here
we have some keyboard shortcuts with which we can do
many other things without touching the mouse.

For example, we can choose a search engine.


alternatively, automatically insert the www and the
.compare to convert a word on the web or browse through
the different words that make up a URL. And of course,
we cannot forget the essential Ctrl + L for
go directly to the address bar.
Name of a search engine + Tabulator:
Search with another search engine.
Ctrl + EnterAdd www. and .com to the beginning and end of the
entered word.
Alt + IntroAdd www. and .com at the beginning and end of the
word entered and open in a new tab. On Mac
Control + Shift + Enter.
Ctrl + L, Alt + D or F6: Go to the address bar.
Mac is⌘ +
Ctrl + K or Ctrl + E: Enter search term
from anywhere on the page.
Ctrl + Right Arrow or Left Arrow: Move to the next word or
previous of the URL. On Mac it is Shift + Option + Arrow
The o Left.

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