By Thilak May 4, 2006

5 Tips For New Internet Surfers

When you are new to the web, trying to start a new business to make a living online, you need advices to make your surffing life easier…

Everyday, thousands of new surfers open their browsers for the first time, it is confusing in the beginning, but if you have some good advices in the early beginning, you can surf easier and faster with a friendly browser…

Tip 1: Surf in security.

The first action that you will do if you are new to the net is to open your browser to surf. If you have a PC, like most of the Internet population. You will have Internet explorer installed in your computer, but it is not the best browser available on the net, and it is in fact limited. You may think that it is hard to surf on Internet.

When you will discover Mozilla Firefox, you will be even more happy to surf on Internet, for sure.

One of the first reason you should use Firefox is the integrated Firewall, which protect you against spyware and other adawares.

Tip 2: No need to tape http://www.—.com all the time.

The second reason to choose Firefox is that you save time; for instance, when you went on ebay.com yesterday, you wrote: http://www.ebay.com with Firefox, you just tape ?e? in the address bar of your browser, then http://www.ebay.com will appear in the drop down menu, it’s like magic, and it’s fun too.

Tip 3: See all your pages in only one window.

I really love this one; you can surf in tab. That is really powerful.

For instance, with Internet Explorer, whenever you click on a link, you have 2 choice: open the page in the same window, or open it in a new window. Firefox enable you to open several pages in one window.

Let’s explain: you are now looking yahoo.com, and you want to see the news, you just right click on the link, select open in a new tab, and you have now two pages in only one window. To switch between your pages, you just need to click on anyone of the page you want to look in, all that in the same window. You can open fifteen windows in one time if you want.

Better, you can bookmark(in Internet explorer, bookmark is favorites) a tab, and open it later. It is a very intelligent way of surfing. It is very efficient when you are doing some researches on a subject, on google for example.

Tip 4: All your downloads at the same place.

The fourth reason to choose Firefox is that when you download a file on your computer, sometimes, you want to open it, but you face a problem: Where did you save that file? With Firefox, just click on tools, and then you select download, and a pop up window appear. You just scroll to find your program. It will save you time and a lot of headaches.

However, it is recommended, for the first time, to save your download on your desktop, then after save your file in the folder you choose. You can download firefox for Free. You just type firefox in google.com and you’re done.

Tip 5: Don’t forget a good anti virus,

While you surf on Internet, some hijackers will attempt to damage your computer, by introducing a virus in it. If you don’t take your precaution, you may loose all that is stored in your hard disk. You can download AVG, which is excellent at download.com.

There is a lot to learn when you start on Internet, but take your time. And everything will go smoothly.

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Discussion

Comments for “5 Tips For New Internet Surfers”

  • Nami
    great tips... its my first time to see your articles and its really really usefull... thank you for sharing...

    keep up the good work.
  • Shashank Pai
    Hi Thilak,

    But i disagree with you on the second point, where in you said that you need to type the whole web adress in the ie, u can just type ebay.com or ebay and then press ctrl+enter and this works in any web browser, and also in Internet explorer if the Histories are saved then u can just type e or g and the websites you visited with these alphabets open up in a dropdown menu and this is the same to firefox and anyother web browser. And IE7 is now open to all, you can got to filehippo.com and download it, it needs no validation now.. and IE7 has its own protection and also checks against phising sites and yes the most talked bout feature in Firefox, The Tabs is also available in IE7, but even before firefox was popular Opera was the browser which had Tabs and could open several pages in one window, but it didnt click much.. Opera is still a very good browser for beginners... So when you compare two things please research first.. But this post was a very good and useful one..
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