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✓ Get Link: Appears if you have a highlighted link. Choosing this menu
item opens that page of the link.
✓ Go To: Opens a Web page when you enter a Web address and touch-press
Go. As you enter more addresses, they are listed in the History portion of
the screen so you don't have to retype them. To find out how to clear that
list, see the "Specifying cache operations" section, later in this chapter.
✓ Back: Goes back to the preceding page you viewed. This menu item
appears only if you have navigated to more than one Web page.
You can achieve the same function by pressing the escape key (the
bottom arrow key).
✓ Forward: Progresses one page at a time if you've gone back at least one
Web page in your browsing travels; otherwise, it isn't a visible option.
✓ Recent Pages: Jumps to any of those Web pages when you highlight
the history page and press the enter key twice. Browser can track up to
20 pages of Web addresses you've visited, which you can view on the
History screen.
✓ History: Displays a list of the Web pages you've visited and allows you
to jump back quickly to those pages. The list is grouped by date.
✓ Refresh: Updates the current page. This is helpful when you're viewing a
page with data that changes frequently (such as stock quotes).
✓ Set Encoding: Specifies the encoding used in viewing a Web page. This is
useful for viewing foreign languages that use different characters. Most
BlackBerry users don't have to deal with this and probably don't know
what type of encoding a particular language could display.
When you try to open a Web page, indicators that show the progress of your
request appear at the bottom of the screen. The left side of Figure 10-6 shows
that Browser is requesting a page; the right side of the figure shows that
you've reached the page but the page is still loading.
Figure 10-6:
Requesting
a page (left)
and then
loading it
(right).
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