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For Microsoft Internet Explorer Users
For Internet Explorer Users
If you've been using Microsoft® Internet Explorer, you'll find
that it's easy to begin using &brandShortName; for
browsing the web,
managing your mail, and much more.
Your IE Favorites are imported automatically. To access them, open the
Bookmarks menu and choose Imported IE Favorites.
Browser Features
Tabbed
Browsing: Instead of opening a separate browser window for
each website you want to visit, you can open multiple websites within the
same window and tab between them. You can also
set a group of tabs as
your home page.
Sidebar:
Customize &brandShortName; with frequently accessed content and tools such
as news, stock quotes, your bookmarks, browser history, and many other
options.
Profile
Manager: Create different profiles, each with its own
bookmarks, preferences, mail settings, and so on. This is useful if you
must share &brandShortName; on the same computer with other people, or
if you want to keep your work and personal settings separate.
Cookie Manager: Lets
you view detailed information about each cookie and remove cookies you
don't want to be stored on your computer. You can also control which
websites are allowed to store cookies on your computer.
Image
Manager: Enables you to disable images from certain websites,
or disable them all together. This is useful if you wish to decrease the
amount of time it takes for websites to load.
Other Features
In the lower left-hand corner of your browser, a component bar gives you
quick access to several useful features:
Mail & Newsgroups:
Conveniently manage all your Internet communications. You can set up and
maintain multiple business and personal mail accounts and Internet
newsgroups, all from one window. You can
import
mail and settings from other popular email programs.
Address
Books: Create an address book or
import
contact information from other popular mail programs.
Composer:
Create, edit, and publish your pages on the web with this built-in web page
editor.
ChatZilla: Built-in IRC client that lets you chat with
other people over IRC networks.
Keyboard Shortcuts
You will notice that Microsoft Internet Explorer and &brandShortName;
share many of the same shortcut keys. For a full list of shortcut keys, see
the List of &brandShortName; Keyboard
Shortcuts.