Browsing the Internet II: Web Browsing Tools

One look at the top of a web browser for a novice internet user can be intimidating.  At first glance, there are a bunch symbols and areas to type.  What, you may ask, do they all do?  Firstly, at the upper right hand corner of your broswer, you will see two arrow buttons.  The one pointing to the left is the "back" button.  This button returns you to the page your were previously viewing.  You can go back as many pages as you have viewed in that internet surfing session.  The arrow pointing to the right is the forward button, which, essentially, undos the function of the back button.  It will return you to the page you just went back from.  In some browsers (Firefox in the picture example) there is a small arrow pointing downwards.  This is the "recent pages" button.  Clicking it will present you a list of websites recently viewed.  A little to the right of the recent pages buttons, you will see a button that looks like a house.  A click of the "home page button" will return you to your browsers default home page.  On the side of an already open tab, there is a small space to click to open a new tab which will allow you to keep multiple web pages open for click viewing.  In the upper right hand corner of the browser is the search box.  Typing in this box will send a query to your default search engine and return you with the search results.  Basically, it's a search engine in a small text box rather than a webpage. 

More info: http://www.ehow.com/how_2301861_use-web-browser.html