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If you leave the Web Browser application while a page is being loaded, you can set a preference so you will be notified in the title bar when the Web page finishes loading.
Once the marquee notification has finished scrolling, a little globe icon 
will remain in the title bar until you view the page. Also, if you set a new message alert, a ringtone will sound when the page finishes loading. Read more in Set Web Page Load Complete Alert.
If a Web page is longer than your display, you will see a vertical scroll bar along the right of your screen. Use the wheel to scroll down the page, or use the shortcuts described in Navigation/View Shortcuts below.
While you're in the Web Browser, you can use the following shortcuts for Menu items:
You can use the following shortcuts to navigate or change your view when using the Web Browser:
while rotating wheel down (scrolls screen-by-screen)
(scrolls screen-by-screen)
while rotating wheel up (scrolls screen-by-screen)
(scrolls screen-by-screen)
To open any Web page, do the following while you're in the Web Browser application:
.
then selecting Go To [
O].
Note: To navigate back and forward between Web pages you've visited, press Menu
B, or press Menu
then select Navigate to open the Navigate submenu, which contains a Forward option, links to Web pages you've visited, and History.
Your home page is set in the Web Browser Settings screen as described in Set Your Home Page. You can go to your home page in either of two ways while in the Web Browser:
To search the Web for keywords, do the following while you're in the Web Browser application:
When you are finished typing your search words, use the wheel to scroll down to highlight the Search option, then press.
To see a list of Web pages that you have visited recently, relative to the page you are currently viewing, use the Recent Pages screen while in the Web Browser application:
, then select Navigate and press the wheel again to open the submenu. Your recently-viewed pages are listed in the center of the submenu. You can also open the Recent Pages dialog box by pressing Menu
B. On this dialog box, notice that the page you are currently viewing is marked with a bullet and its listing is positioned relative to where you've been.
By using Recent Pages, you can easily navigate forward and backward among pages you've visited.
You can clear your Recent Pages list from the Settings screen. Read more in Clear History.
To see a chronological list of Web pages you have visited (up to 100), open the History screen while in the Web Browser application:
then select Navigate > History. The History screen opens.
You can clear your history from the Settings screen. Read more in Clear History.
To view the current page's title, URL, and encoding, press Menu
then select View > Page Info [
Q]. The Page Info dialog box opens, which contains all the page information.
If a Web page is not displaying correctly, it is possible that the character encoding information is not included in the Web page. Usually, the Web Browser will be able to determine which language and character set to use, but if you know the encoding, you can manually set it by doing the following:
and select View > Encoding. The Character Encoding menu appears.
Note: Once you select an encoding for a given page it stays linked with that page unless you change it explicitly (which means it's possible to set specific encoding on each page visited). Also, the current encoding choice is used for subsequent forward links/browsing.
You can refresh (reload from the originating server) the Web page you are currently viewing in either of two ways:
Note about "Automatic" Refreshing: The device has no knowledge about the content being displayed on any given Web page; the Web page itself must contain instructions about how the browser should handle content expiration. Unfortunately, many Web pages (including some hosting news) contain no such instructions, so these pages refresh automatically only when a desktop/laptop computer user opens a new Web browser "session" and connects to their site.
Because the Web Browser on your device has no notion of "session", Web pages that do not contain explicit instructions about handling content expiration will be cached (saved) on your device for a number of days. This behavior makes your device extremely efficient for those pages that actually should cache (the majority of pages).
You can stop a Web page from loading in either of two ways:
If you are on a Web page that you would like to share with someone else, you can send them the URL via email, text, or multimedia message:
then select Page & Links > Send Page > via Email [
M] or via Text or via MMS. A Compose screen appears.
then select Send [
M].
With a Web page link highlighted, you can perform various actions on that link:
and select Page & Links > Links [
] to open a context menu listing the actions you can take on the link. Alternatively, you can press and hold the wheel to bring up the context menu.
If you want to copy the entire contents of a Web page to the clipboard, first press Menu
then select Edit Text > Select All [
A]. Once the page contents are selected, press Menu
C. To deselect the page, simply rotate the wheel slightly.
To search for one or more words on a Web page, use the Find feature:
and select Find > Find [
F]. The Find dialog box opens.
to start the search. Once a match has been found, to find the next instance of the word(s), press
G; to find the previous instance of the word(s), press
D.
.
A bookmark is a saved link to a Web page that has been added to a list of saved links. When you are looking at a particular Web page and want the ability to get back to it later quickly, create a bookmark for it. You can create up to 500 bookmarks on your device and up to 50 custom folders in which to organize them. (Read how in Add Bookmarks.)
While in the Web Browser, you can see the bookmarks you have already set by doing either of the following:
Notice, you can create folders to organize your bookmarks. "Expand" or "collapse" the bookmarks contained within a given folder by highlighting the folder and pressing the wheel. Press to expand, press again to collapse the list.
Read more about creating folders in Add/Edit/Delete Bookmark Folders.
To add a bookmark to your list of bookmarks, do the following while in the Web Browser:
then select Add Bookmark [
N].
The Folder pop-up menu is highlighted by default. Press the wheel to open the list of options. Scroll to highlight the folder in which you want the bookmark to appear, then press the wheel to select it. If you select New Folder, the New Folder dialog box will appear, asking you to name the folder.
. Your bookmark is added.
You can change the address (URL), name, or folder of an existing bookmark, or discard a bookmark by doing the following while in the Web Browser:
then select Bookmarks [
K]. The Bookmarks screen opens.
to open the Bookmarks menu, and then:
You can organize your bookmarks into folders that you name. To add, edit, or delete a bookmark folder, do the following while in the Web Browser:
then select Bookmarks [
K]. The Bookmarks screen opens.
to open the Bookmarks menu, and then:
E]. The Rename dialog box opens. Edit the folder name as you wish and press Done
.
]. You will be asked to confirm your action before the folder is discarded permanently.
N]. The New Folder dialog box appears. Type the new folder name and press Done
.
To set your Web home page (the page you want the browser to open by default), do the following while in the Web Browser application:
then select Settings.
Alternatively, you could select the Use Current Page button if you want to use the Web page that was displayed on the screen before you opened the Settings screen.
to save your setting.
To set the search engine you want to use by default, do the following while in the Web Browser application:
then select Settings.
to save your setting.
If you want an alert to sound when a Web page has finished loading (assuming you are in another application at the time the page loads), then select a ringtone from this pop-up menu.
You can decide if you want the Web Browser to display Web pictures on your device by doing the following while in the Web Browser application:
then select Settings.
Note: The Show Pictures setting does not affect cached Web pages. You must Refresh any cached page by pressing
R for the setting to take effect.
Some Web pages use JavaScript to add interactive functionality to the page. You can choose to disable JavaScript if you want faster browser performance. To disable JavaScript, clear the Enable JavaScript check box.
History contains a chronological list of Web pages you have visited (up to 100). To remove all Web pages from the list, scroll to highlight the Clear History button, then press the wheel to select it. Note that when you clear your history, you also clear your Recent Pages list, except for the page you are currently viewing.
The device cache stores temporary Internet files such as Web pages and files (such as graphics). The device allocates up to 800 KB for the cache. This speeds up the display of pages you frequently visit or have already seen because the browser can open them from your device memory rather than the Web.
To clear your cache, scroll to highlight the Clear Cache button, then press the wheel to select it. Note that this may take a while. You'll be notified when the cache has been cleared.
Many Web sites save information to your system (the Web proxy service in this case) so sites can "remember" information you've entered (including which pages you've visited within their site) for future reference. This information is stored in a small text file, called a cookie. Know that only the information you type while visiting a Web site can be stored. Also, know that the presence of a cookie does not allow any external Web site access to other information on your device. A Web site can only read the cookie that it created.
If you want to delete all the cookies stored for your account on the Web proxy service database, scroll to highlight the Clear Cookies button, then press the wheel to select it.
Note that when you clear cookies, your SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificates are also cleared.
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