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CHAPTER 15
Using Palm™ Web Browser
Palm™ Web Browser is your gateway to the web. Use Palm Web Browser to
do the following:
■ Visit web pages.
■ Change your home page.
■ Bookmark your favorite sites.
Using Palm Web Browser’s features
Palm Web Browser is a fast web browser that has a number of features that make
it easy to use. The browser is secure and has an informative tips that help you
effectively access the web.
Palm Web Browser is easy to use
Palm Web Browser is easy to use because it works much like the web browsers you
use on your desktop computer. You can enter web addresses (also called
URLs—Uniform Resource Locators), create bookmarks to mark favorite pages,
save pages, and even download files directly to your handheld.
More importantly, Palm Web Browser is designed to be used on the small screen of
your handheld. It forces images to fit the handheld’s screen; it doesn’t clutter your
screen with fancy icons; and it handles technical features (like plug-ins) with
minimal input from you.
Palm Web Browser is fast
Palm Web Browser is designed with the knowledge that you may be viewing web
pages using a slow connection. Palm Web Browser processes each web page to
make the download as fast as possible, compressing the text, removing some large
images, and compressing other images. In addition, Palm Web Browser has
preferences that you can adjust to make downloading even faster.
Because wireless Internet connections tend to be slower than the wired connections
common on desktop computers, Palm Web Browser also avoids downloading a
web page when it can display that page from memory. Before it downloads a web
page, it can check with the web server to see if the content in memory is up-to-date.
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