After a while the window in Figure 1-1 will appear:

You'll also become acquainted with the representation style of the chapters in this guide.

Mozilla Firefox , or Firefox, is a modern web browser . The generic term 'web browser' simply means a program that is made for a particular purpose, e.g. surfing the Web.

As the program starts a so-called default page will normally open as well. Here the default page is the home page of Mozilla Corporation. Your computer may display a different page depending on its default page settings.

Now let's look at how to change the default page.

Now the default page shown when starting a web browser is a thing that can be changed. In doing so you can also choose the alternative in which only a blank page is shown. This is often advisable because if there's some problem with a page used as default, the web browser will not open a problematic page without success and waste your time in doing so.

6 Click the Home Page button on the Navigation Bar as shown in Figure 1-5 above.

Next we want to close the browser. Figure 1-7 below shows two ways to close the browser.

9 Type the string 'nypl.org' into the Location Box as shown in Figure 1-9 below and press Enter .

(For example, it may be printed on a magazine or a brochure perhaps.) So let's try that for an exercise.

We'll now try to get another home page to be displayed in the browser. It's well known that the home page of the New York Public Library can be achieved using the following string:

We can now see that a blank page is used as the default page.