Web Browsing and Email Tutorials

This series of tutorials will show you how to use email from your own web browser. While web browsing and email are separate Internet-related functions, they often end up working together: emailing a web page or link, clicking on email links in web pages, etc. These are some of the topics we'll examine.

Internet Explorer and Email

Internet Explorer enables you not only to send link to web page in the current tab, but even to send an actual copy of the web page itself, provided your email client (and your recipient's) support HTML content.

Email a link from Internet Explorer | Email a web page from Internet Explorer

In another tutorial, you will learn how to email pictures from Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows Vista (we are using Internet Explorer 7 for that tutorial, but sending pictures by email in Internet Explorer version 6 works in much the same way). See how you can send pictures by email from Internet Explorer.

Firefox and Email

Out of the box, Firefox lets you email links to web pages, using your operating system's default email program. But Firefox, as we'll see, can be extended with "extensions", or mini-programs that extend Firefox's native functionality; several of these extend the basic email functionality available "natively" in Firefox.

Email a link from Firefox | Email a List of Tab URLs from Firefox

Google Chrome and Email

Although Google's Chrome web browser does not currently include a "Send Link" command, there is an easy way to add such functionality by creating a JavaScript bookmark. Clicking the bookmark will generate an email containing the current web page's address ("URL"), and the title of the page as email subject.

Send an email link from Google Chrome

Internet Explorer Tutorial

This series of tutorials will explore some features of Internet Explorer, the web browser that ships with Windows. You will first learn how to set or change your homepage in Internet Explorer; then, how to delete your browsing history in IE, and how to delete your cookies in IE.

By default, the classic menus are hidden in recent versions of Internet Explorer: see how you can show the classic menus (or hide them, as needed). Two other tutorials will explain how to open your emails from Internet Explorer, and answer the question: What version of Internet Explorer do I have?

When you browse web page, you now have the ability to zoom in or out of them, to see them in more details, or on the contrary to see more of the page; we are not talking about the ability Internet Explorer offers to increase or decrease font size, or text size, (which as you'll see has limited success), but about actual zoom levels: how to customize them, quickly change zoom level, and how to make Internet Explorer remember your favorite zoom factor. Read this tutorial to learn how to change zoom in Internet Explorer.

Next, you will see how easy it is to change search engine in Internet Explorer, and customize the default search provider.