If you already know your browser type, skip these steps and go to the section in this article titled “Find the Version Number”.
The area at the very top is called the browser “title bar” area and sometimes includes the browser name.
Also note that this article does not reference Mobile Browsers found on Android and Apple products as it is outside the scope of this article. If you’d like to write articles about them, please do so, then edit this article with links to those articles.
As indicated by the blue arrow in the uppermost left of this image, Opera has a big red letter “O” on the top left corner of the title bar. It should also have three buttons in the center just below the white web site address bar that say “Speed Dial”, “Stash”, and “Discover” respectively. “Speed Dial” is the default when you first open the browser unless you’ve changed the settings (in other words, it’s no longer the default setting). The three middle buttons (see the blue box in the middle) also show four blue arrows pointing downward indicating the pages you have placed into your “Speed Dial” area in small previews. “Stash” shows a few of your most frequented pages. (Resetting the options in Opera can change this). “Discover” is kind of like a “News Feed” (tip: click the little gray gear to the right of the “Discover” button to display the countries in your feed then click the other tab within that window which lists all of your interests. ) Options can always be modified to suit your own needs. Pages on the “Stash” button can be “dragged and dropped” to rearrange the order of them in the “Stash” view. The blue arrow pointing to the right is pointing to a circled " hourglass " icon and if you hover your mouse over the gray gear after clicking on the “Stash” button, wait a few seconds and a text box should open were you can perform a search (using whatever “Search Engine” you use). When you’re on a regular web page, the red heart in the top right corner of the Opera browser is a neat little icon that shows the page you are on has been bookmarked, like www. wikiHow. com! If it’s empty it means it hasn’t been bookmarked yet. Click the empty heart and it will turn red, so you now you know it has been saved it to your bookmarks!
There is no logo or icon in the top left corner, but look at “golden star” on the right. That’s the Google Chrome bookmark indicator. Again, the page is saved in the browser for easy access later. You may see the star to appear hollow. If the star is hollow instead of yellow (or gold) then it simply means the page has not been bookmarked. If it’s a gold (or yellow) star the page has been bookmarked! Click the star to make it yellow or gold in Google Chrome to bookmark the page or edit its location in Google Chrome’s “Bookmarks Manager”. Bookmarks can be managed anytime from the pop-up window when you bookmark pages or working with the Google Chrome bookmark folder file.
Again, there is no logo or icon in the top left corner but the back and forward buttons will have circles around them and are next to a tiny gray “globe” image. The gray “globe” is simply an indicator of the website’s identity credentials and isn’t much to worry about. If it’s not gray then it’s not a good idea to use the website without further investigation, unless you are sure you can “trust it”. Read this wikiHow article to find out how to identify trustworthy informational websites. The big round gray arrow with the circle around it, pointing to the right, is the “back” button. You can go back to the last page your were on after you’ve visited at least one other page but you can also “go forward” if the arrow is right facing. It will work once you’ve gone back by using the “back” button from before. A blue arrow in the picture points to a red rectangular box marking the area of the browser’s navigational utilities that you may use to “surf”. Simply hover your mouse over the four icons in Mozilla Firefox that are shown by the red box in the image above to see the capabilities of all the utility features Firefox makes easily accessible and handy right in the browser!
It should have a blue, lower-case letter e with a gold circle through it. It should be seen in the top left corner with round blue “back and forth” buttons used to “navigate” or “surf” the web. The previous picture also shows control buttons. Use those to switch its “Compatibility View” so that if you’re on an older website that has difficulty displaying the content, a click of this button might help the browser “see” what it says. The “refresh” buttons (also known as “reload” buttons) are the little green buttons in Internet Explorer that look like they have two little arrows going around (see inside the gold rectangular box in the picture above), then there is the little red x within the gold box drawing on the picture above. It causes the page to stop loading, or “downloading” as the case may be. The blue question mark over to the right (circled in gold) will be used later to find the Internet Explorer’s version number so be sure to remember where it is. That’s because it’s the “Help” button icon for Internet Explorer! Along the very top of the title bar area, look for the words “Internet Explorer”. This browser typically ships with Windows Operating Systems (OS).
It’s in the top left corner of the title bar area. Do you see it? The green arrow in the picture, pointing to the right uppermost corner of the top area of this browser, shows “shortcut icons” for tools you can use to control Apple Safari. There is an Apple logo on the left side of the website address were the other green arrow is pointing, close to the white bar. If you’re on the wikiHow website it’s where it says https://www. wikihow. com. just below the title bar and has the website address in black print with a white background. Look for “http” to more easily find it. Apple Safari has what appears to be a “blue, round, glass icon that looks shiny” next to the “plus” symbol. The shiny blue dot (or icon) means the website you are viewing has no “favicon” file. [2] X Research source The green box surrounding the letters in the picture, in all caps, that say “RSS” meaning Rich Site Summary. [3] X Research source RSS is a way to get what is called a “Feed” of the website’s current content. For more details about How to Use RSS Feeds read this article. Further information on RSS is outside the scope of this article. [4] X Research source The Safari browser typically ships with the Apple’s Mac OS (Operating System) browser and most Apple products such as the Apple iPhone, Apple Computer, and other Apple devices as well, Even if you have MS Windows Operating System (OS) and a Personal Computer (PC), you can still download and use the Safari version 5. 1. 7 browser.
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If you want to click the System Information button you can learn all about the technical aspects of your entire Windows “PC” Operating System and find diagnostics to fix things there, too!
See the picture below to help you visualize what its meant.
A window should open showing the Apple Safari version number. The item before the parenthesis is the version. The item inside the parenthesis is that specific build, which you may or may not need. Other information in that window also shows the copyright years of that specific version. Now you have all the information you need for the Apple Safari browser.
If you don’t label it correctly you could mistake it for something that’s “unimportant” and toss it out or lose it. Be creative in the way you save it on a simple piece of paper if you wish!
