Information about your webbrowser

This manual is meant for 1A-server users.
It explains how to find the webbrowser on your PC or Mac. This information is often used in our manuals.

Usage

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General

• A webbrowser is an application on your PC, Apple Mac or Smartphone that enables you to view websites
• A webbrowser has several fields and buttons, though the largest area of the application is used to show websites
• A PC or Apple Computer may have multiple webbrowsers installed at the same time
• The default-webbrowser on Windows is Edge
• The default-webbrowser on MacOS is Safari

2

Terms

• The following are terms that an IT-support employee might use, these will be highlighted in the accompanying screenshots
• URL (website-name): A URL usually starts with https:// followed by the website-name, for example https://www.1afa.com
• Not all website-names start with "www.", for example https://manuals.1afa.com
• URL-bar: This is the field that shows the URL in text
• When you enter a website-name in the URL-bar and press enter, the webbrowser will open the website
• Usually you can omit the text https://, the webbrowser will add this automatically
• Search-field: This is a field where you could start a search, even when you are not currently visiting a search-website
• In some webbrowsers the URL-bar is also the search-field
• Navigation-buttons: For example the "Refresh" button and the "Back" button
• Navigation-screen: The area of the webbrowser that displays the website

3

Firefox

• Manufacturer: Mozilla
• Information at the manufacturer → Firefox

4

Chrome

• Manufacturer: Google
• Information at the manufacturer → Chrome

5

Edge

• Manufacturer: Microsoft
• Information at the manufacturer → Microsoft Edge

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Safari

• Manufacturer: Apple
• Information at the manufacturer → Safari

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Internet Explorer

• Manufacturer: Microsoft
• Information at the manufacturer → Internet Explorer
  
  Please note: Support for Internet Explorer will end on 30 November 2020.