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.

&brandShortName; and Internet Explorer Terminology Differences

About Your IE Favourites

Your IE Favourites are imported automatically. To access them, open the Bookmarks menu and choose Imported IE Favourites.

Browser Features

• Tabbed Browsing: Instead of opening a separate browser window for each web site you want to visit, you can open multiple web sites within the same window and tab between them. You can also set a group of tabs as your home page.
• Pop-up Window Controls: Lets you allow or suppress both popup and popunder windows.
• Sidebar: Customise &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 web sites are allowed to store cookies on your computer.
• Image Manager: Enables you to disable images from certain web sites, or disable them all together. This is useful if you wish to decrease the amount of time it takes for web sites 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.