<listitem><para>If you are lucky enough to have a high speed cable connection,
then the service provider will probably give you an external cable modem which
needs an ethernet connection to your machine. Unfortunately the details of how
to establish the connection depend on the service provider and to some extent
on which Linux/&UNIX; distribution you are using. Some <acronym>ISP</acronym>s
connect their customers to the Internet through a proxy server, in which case
you will have to set up &konqueror; to use it. You may find it useful to
search the archives of your distribution's user group mailing list for
help.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<note><para>An error message such as <errorname>Unknown Host</errorname>
usually means that &konqueror; cannot find a connection to the Internet or that
you have entered an incorrect &URL;.</para></note>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="surf">
<title>Surfing and Searching</title>
<para>Once you have a connection to the Internet, you can surf with
&konqueror; just as you can with any other browser.</para>
<para>Type a &URL; into the Location Toolbar window, press
&Enter; or <mousebutton>left</mousebutton> click on the
<guibutton>Go</guibutton> button at the right hand end of the Location
Toolbar, and &konqueror; will download and display that page.
If you have visited the page before, &konqueror;'s
<link linkend="path-complete">Automatic Text Completion</link> feature can help
you type the &URL; a second time, or you could look through the
<guilabel>History</guilabel> page in the
<link linkend="sidebar">Navigation Panel</link>. If you want to use one of
the web's search engines, &konqueror;'s <link linkend="enhanced-browsing">
Web Shortcuts</link> feature can make this easier.</para>
<para><mousebutton>Left</mousebutton> click on a link in the page to
go there.</para>
<para>To open a link in a new instance of &konqueror;, leaving the
old page still visible, &MMB; click on the link or <mousebutton> right
</mousebutton> click on it and select the
<guimenuitem>Open in New Window</guimenuitem> option. Alternatively, you might want to <guimenuitem>Open in New Tab</guimenuitem>. <link linkend="tabbrowse">Tabbed Browsing</link> will let
you hold a number of pages in one &konqueror; window and quickly switch
between them with a single mouse click.</para>
<para>You could also select the multiple view mode with <keycombo
action="simul">&Ctrl;&Shift;<keycap>L</keycap>
</keycombo>
or the Menubar <menuchoice><guimenu>Window</guimenu> <guimenuitem>Split View
Left/Right</guimenuitem></menuchoice> option which will let you see different
pages at the same time. This can be useful if you are looking through a
complicated set of <acronym>HTML</acronym> pages, but make sure the little link
box at the bottom right hand corner is empty when you are doing
this.</para>
<para>To go back to the previous page use the <keycombo
in the user query. In addition it is possible to specify multiple
references (names, numbers and strings) at once, like
<userinput>(\{<varname><replaceable>name1</replaceable></varname>,<varname><replaceable>name2</replaceable></varname>,...,"<replaceable>string</replaceable>"})</userinput>. The first
matching value (from the left) will be used as substitution value for
the resulting &URI;. A quoted string can be used as the default value if
nothing matches from the left of the reference list.</para>
<para>To make a basic Web Shortcut here however, all that is required
is the &URI; that is used to do a search on the search
engine. Following our previous example with
<trademark>Google</trademark>, we would enter
<userinput>http://www.google.com/search?q=\{@}&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8</userinput>. You
can often easily find where to place the <userinput>\{@}</userinput>
by doing a search on the search engine in question, and then analysing
the &URL; address. For example, doing a <trademark>Google</trademark>
search for &konqueror; produces the &URL;: <ulink
url="http://www.google.com/search?q=konqueror&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">http://www.google.com/search?q=konqueror&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8</ulink>. Now
you need to merely replace &konqueror; with
<userinput>\{@}</userinput> in this example to find the appropriate
&URI; to be entered.</para>
<para>In the third field you need to enter the &URI; shortcut. For
example, the <userinput>gg</userinput> in
<userinput>gg:konqueror</userinput>. In the next option — the
drop-down menu — you have the option to select the character set that
will be used to encode the search query. Once you have entered all the
options correctly to your satisfaction, press &Enter; and your new Web
Shortcut should now be available in &konqueror;.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="accesskeys">
<title>Access Keys</title>
<para>&konqueror; has full support for the
<sgmltag class="attribute">accesskey</sgmltag> &HTML; attribute in
forms and links. Access keys allow you to use
the keyboard keys for functions which would perhaps normally be done
with the mouse, such as following links. The benefit of this is, quite
simply, that users can interact with a page with devices other than a
pointing device.</para>
<para>To activate the access keys in &konqueror;, press and release
&Ctrl;. Once this is pressed, if a particular link on the website has
the <sgmltag class="attribute">accesskey</sgmltag> attribute in the given link, then the
character(s) should appear over the link, identifying what needs to be
pressed. Then, you can enter the character(s) associated with the link
as an alternative to following the link with the mouse. To disable the
access keys once activated you can press &Ctrl; again.</para>
<note><para>The proper use of this feature requires that the web
designer of the page has specifically assigned, using the
<sgmltag class="attribute">accesskey</sgmltag> attribute, an access key for the
link. Many web designers might not include the
<sgmltag class="attribute">accesskey</sgmltag> in their links and forms, and
consequently this feature will be unusable on the given
webpage.</para></note>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="useragent">
<title>Browser Identification</title>
<para>When &konqueror; connects to a web site it sends some brief browser
identification information, known as the <quote>User Agent</quote> string.
Many web sites use this information to customize the pages that they send
back, based on the strengths and weaknesses of different browsers.</para>
<para>Unfortunately, some badly designed sites refuse to work properly
unless you are using a browser that the site recognizes as a
<quote>valid</quote> one, even though if given a chance, &konqueror; will
work satisfactorily with the vast majority of web pages.</para>
<para>To overcome this problem you can change the browser identification
information that &konqueror; sends for specific sites or domains by
