Back and Forward
The Essential Navigation Tools

Back and Forward are the most essential, hence most used, of the Netscape features. Back and Forward are the "page turners" of Netscape. Like your own fingers turning a page in a book, back and forward allow the user to move back and forward through the documents which you have viewed. Below is an example of how Back and Forward are used together.

Back and Forward will be inactive when you first begin your session. Once several links have been pressed, back and forward can be pressed repeatedly. For example, pressing Back twice takes you back two documents. Pressing Forward three times takes you forward three documents.

Home
Lost in Cyberspace? Set a course for Home!

Home takes you to the computer's preset Home Page.

Stop
Link not responding? Download time too long? Press Stop!

"Stop" is perhaps one of the easiest and most useful tool in Netscape. Pressing "Stop" will cease the connection attempt or transfer of information which is currently in process.

Use "Stop" when:

1) After pressing a link, a new document or picture does not appear after a long wait. Long waits are often due to increased user traffic. Some documents take longer to access than others.

2) You decide a sound, image or animation file being downloaded is taking too long to download because of its large size. Some sound and animations can be quite large and take time to download.

Do not be too hasty to press Stop. While animations and sound files can be large and take time to download, the wait is often worth it.