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1.What is a web browser?

=A Web browser is a software program that interprets the coding language of the World Wide Web in graphic form, displaying the translation rather than the coding. This allows anyone to “browse the Web” by simple point and click navigation, bypassing the need to

know commands used in software language

2.What is a bookmark?

=This is a feature in most Internet browsers that allows you to save the address of a web site you like. In Microsoft Internet Explorer bookmarks are known as favorites and a menu option is available for you to view your favorites in the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.

3. What is the purpose of a web [browser] cache?

=A web cache is a mechanism for the temporary storage (caching) of web documents, such as HTML pages and images, to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag. A web cache stores copies of documents passing through it; subsequent requests may be satisfied from the cache if certain condition are met

4.What is a web [brower] plugin?

=The Web Browser Plug-in section of Web Tools contains direct links to information about the most widely used plug-ins and helper applications. A list of online resources is also provided which contains detailed information on these and other plug-ins and helper

Application not specifically addressed in this section .

5.Choose three types of web browsers and answer the following questions for each browser.

• How do you set homepages?
• How do you customize search providers?
• How do you bookmark a page? How do you organize your book marks?
• How do you clear the cache?
• How do you install a plugin?
• How do you save pages offline?

*1.Setting your home page in Firefox is easy. Can't decide on just one page? No problem. Firefox lets you set a group of websites as your home page. This article will give you some examples and step-by-step instructions for customizing your home page settings to best fit how you work. If you keep getting the "Firefox has just updated" tab every time Firefox starts, see the aptly-named article Firefox has just updated tab shows each time you start Firefox.
*2.Open Internet Explorer 8, click "Tools" and then click "Internet Options."Click the "General" tab, and then click the "Settings" button under "Search."Click "Find more search providers..." in the lower-left corner of the window. A new browser window opens and displays a page with a list of available search engines for Internet Explorer Click the search engine you want to use.Click the blue "Click to install" link. A new window titled "Add Search Provider" appears.Click "Make this my default search provider" and "Use search suggestions from this provider."Click the "Add" button. The new search provider appears in the search bar at the top of the window.

Read more: How to Customize the Internet Explorer 8 Search Bar | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_8153889_customize-explorer-8-search-bar.html#ixzz1RVP0pXPm

*3.is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference them.
Descriptions may be added to these bookmarks in the form of metadata, so users may understand the content of the resource without first needing to download it for themselves. Such descriptions may be free text comments, votes in favour of or against its quality, or tags that collectively or collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords to shared content".^[1]
.Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks..
As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social network features.^[2]
* 4.The browser cache comes up a lot in answers, more than questions, but in doing so it probably causes even more questions. Even when following instructions to clear it, it's not at all clear what this piece of magic really is, and why clearing it would do anything at all.
Let's review the browser cache, what it is, and why it exists. Along the way, we'll review the steps to clear it in both Internet Explorer and Firefox, and try to dream up some reasons why that sometimes helps.