FRJ's Netscape Tricks

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My web browser of choice is Netscape.  I am using version 4.5 but there are some good reasons to upgrade to 4.51.  I just have not gotten around to it yet....soon, real soon.........  The folks at Netscape have changed their site to allow it to be you "one-stop" entrance to the net. 

There are some tricks built into netscape. 

Some Useful Icons in Netscape 4.50
Padlock - lower left corner Use this to see the security settings for the current page.
Small Plug lower left Ever get trapped into one of those cycles where you close a screen and by doing that... ANOTHER screen or TWO open. Use this plug-icon to disconnect from the net and close your netscape screen without a new screen opening.
Grilled area to left of Navigator wheel Pops up a floating tool bar. Useful if you need a larger status line. This menu can be set to float on top of all tasks.
Netscape Icon upper right Takes you to netscape's home page.  Well Duh !!
First Icon on Personal Tools bar - Instant Messanger Provides connection to AOL's Instant Message service. Works like ICQ.
What's Related Icon to right of location box on location toolbar. Provides a lot of information about the current site and related sites. This is a major new feature of Netscape 4.50. To understand how it works.

Hidden Commands (type these in the Location: box)
Version Information What version am I running?
Directory Directory of current default?
About Plugins Displays information about your current set of plugins
About Fonts Displays the fonts you are using.
About Authors Removed from this version

Keystroke Tricks
Ctrl+Alt+f THE AMAZING FISH CAM!
Do a Shift+click Force a download. Shift+click will download this page to your system.
Ctrl+Alt+s = Turn off the status line.
Ctrl+Alt+t = URL information.
Print Scrn copies the screen to the clip board. Then open an application like WordPad and do a Ctrl+v to paste it.

Floating Tool Bar or Netscape's Tray
Navigator (Wheel-icon) This opens a new Navigator window
Inbox (Letters-icon) This opens your Email inbox
Newsgroups (Bubble-icon) This opens your newsgroups. See: Newsgroups
AddressBook (Rolodex-icon) Opens your address book.
Composer (Paper&Pen-icon) Opens Netscape Composer. This is a full function HTML editor.