Appearance Toolbars The appearance of the toolbar may be changed. The following three options are available: (1) Pictures only (2) Text only (3) Pictures and Text It is also possible to set the toolbar so it does NOT appear. Use the Options pull-down menu to turn the toolbar off. Startup The Browser, Mail and Newsgroup windows are the three basic windows in Netscape 2.0. The following three startup options are available: (1) Netscape Browser (2) Netscape Mail (3) Netscape News The other Netscape windows can be accessed regardless of the Startup setting. Netscape windows may be opened in the File pull-down menu. The initial web page loaded by the Netscape Browser can be set. Blank page will present a grey empty page. The Home Page Location is set by typing or pasting in an URL address. The Home Page Location button must be selected or the URL will NOT load at startup. Link Styles If Underlined is selected the hyperlinks will be underlined. if unselected, the links will be colored only. Followed links can be configured to revert to unselected after a set number of days. If "Never" is selected, the traveled links will always appear as selected. Pressing "Now" will cause all traveled links to revert to unselected.

Colors "Document Override" verses "Always Use Mine" "Let Document override," when selected, will present the web document as the creator designed it. Backgrounds and special text and links colors (if any) will appear. "Always Use Mine" will disregard the the above information in favor of the Color settings selected. These color settings, WHICH ARE ONLY AVAILABLE WHEN "ALWAYS USE MINE" AND THE SQUARE NEXT TO THE ITEM IS SELECTED, are : Links- Default color is blue. Link color may be changed by selecting the box and double-clicking on the colored rectangle. A new color may be assigned. Followed links- Default color is purple. Followed link color may be changed by selecting the box and double-clicking on the colored rectangle. A new color may be assigned. Text- Default color is black. Text color may be changed by selecting the box and double-clicking on the colored rectangle. A new color may be assigned. Background- Default color is light grey. Background color may be changed by selecting the box and double-clicking on the colored rectangle. A new color may be assigned. A background image may be selected by activating "file" and pressing "Browse." An image may be selected which will appear in the background of all web pages. Toolbar- Selecting "Use utilities pattern" will add a textured pattern to the look of the toolbar.

Fonts Fonts/Encoding The Proportional font setting controls the style and general size of the text appearing on the web pages. Fonts such as Times, Helvetica and Chicago may be selected. The size control sets the exact size for regular text and the proportional size of irregular sized text. Text appearing on the page which is programmed to be smaller or larger than normal will be altered based on the size setting.

Helpers Using other programs with Netscape Helper program settings allow Netscape to present specific file types within the browser window or point to other applications which will present the file.

Images Image loading may be set to load during or after the loading of the web page text.

Applications The Telnet Application may be selected with the Browser button. Choosing a Telnet application allows Netscape to instantly load the Telnet program and make connections to specific sites. View Source setting may be set to load another program (such as Simpletext or Word) or use a new Netscape window to view the HTML source code of the current web page.