Universiteit Utrecht
Sterrenkundig Instituut

Navigation Hint

How not to get lost in Cyberspace. . .

On Digital Unix Alpha Stations and Personal Computers we use Netscape Navigator 3.x for WWW browsing. You can navigate Web pages with mouse clicks on highlighted text fragments, icons and pictures. The effect of the click varies with the mouse button:

  1. The left mouse button activates a hyperlink and loads the referenced Web page in the current Navigator window.
  2. The middle mouse button activates a hyperlink, but loads the referenced Web page in a new, separate Navigator window. This allows you to venture into several branches, without getting lost, because you've still got a Navigator window with the Web page you started from.
  3. The right mouse button activates a hyperlink, and produces a pop-up menu which allows you to select one of several actions:
    1. back to previous page in the same Navigator window,
    2. forward to next page in the same Navigator window,
    3. open this link (in this window),
    4. add bookmark for this link,
    5. new window with this link,
    6. save link as. . ., producing another pop-up dialog, which allows you to save the referenced Web page or (ftp?) file to disk in several formats,
    7. copy this link location to clipboard.

All this, and more, may be found in the Netscape Navigator Handbook.

Last modified: 13 January 1997