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Module 2- World Wide Web and Internet Communications
Lesson 6 Index - Web Browsers
Section 5 - Retracing your steps in the Web Browser

Now that you have visited a few pages on the web, you might want to go back to one of them. However, you may not remember the URL, and there are no links on the current page you are viewing that will lead you back to the page you want. A few ways to retrace your steps are:

• Click the Back button on your toolbar located at the top of the Explorer or Firefox browser.

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OR

Windows logo Click and hold down the Recent Pages arrow next to the Forward button. This will provide you with a contextual menu of the pages you have visited recently. Scroll down the menu until the page you are looking for is highlighted. Click on the desired link to activate the browser to go to the specified page.

Mac Logo To retrace your steps on a MAC, select History on the Menu bar and a list of web pages you’ve visited will be listed:

 


Module 2 Lesson 6 Section 4
Module 2 Lesson 6 Section 6

 

 
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