the Web Browser
Browsing www.konqueror.org

Connecting to the Internet
Once you are connected to the Internet you can use to browse the Web just as easily as you can use it to handle your local files. Just type a URL into the Locationbar window, press Enter, and you are away!
If you use a dial-up modem connection, then you will be using or a similar dialer program to make the connection.
If your machine is connected to a local area network (LAN) that gives you a proxy connection to the Internet then you will have to set up for the proxy connection as described in the Proxy Configuration section.
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 distribution you are using. Some ISPs connect their customers to the Internet through a proxy server, in which case see the Proxy Configuration section of this document. You may find it useful to search the archives of your distribution's user group mailing list for help.
An error message such as Unknown Host usually means that cannot find a connection to the Internet or that you have entered an incorrect URL.

Surfing and Searching
Once you have a connection to the Internet, then you can surf with just as you can with any other browser.
Type a into the Locationbar window, press Enter, and will download and display that page. You can use the auto completion feature to help you type, this is similar to the auto Path completion feature but bases its choices on your browsing history instead of your system file directories.
Left click on a link in the page to go there.
To open a link in a new instance of , leaving the old page still visible, then click on the link and select the New Window option.
You can also select the multiple view mode with Ctrl Shift L or the Menubar Window Split View Left/Right 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 HTML pages, but make sure the little link box at the bottom right hand corner is empty when you are doing this.
To go back to the previous page use the Alt Left Arrow hotkey, the Back button on the Toolbar, or the Menubar Go Back option, just as you do when navigating through your own files.
Similarly, once you have gone back you can go forward by using Alt Right Arrow, the Forward button, or the Menubar Go Forward option.
If you want to stop the download for any reason then use the Esc key, the Toolbar Stop button or the Menubar View Stop item.
When you are viewing a web page you should see two new icons in the Toolbar, looking like magnifying glasses with small + and - symbols. Use these to adjust the size of the text in the page if you find it difficult to read, although whether this works or not will depend on how the HTML page has been constructed.
Some people seem to spend more time searching for a web page than actually reading it. Do you know that you can just type the subject you are looking for into the Locationbar window, and will automatically submit it to a Web search engine? Try it by entering the name of your home town.
Or you can tell it to use a particular search engine. For example entering altavista:konqueror or just av:konqueror will use Altavista to do the search. For more details about 's advanced search features see the Enhanced Browsing section.

Saving and Printing Web Items
When you are viewing a web page you can save it (or at least the basic HTML or similar source text) to your local disk with Location Save As.... If the page you are viewing uses frames, then you will also be given the Location Save Frame As... option, left click in the frame you want to save first.
If the page uses a background image, you can get and save that with the Menubar Location Save Background Image As... option.
But if what you really want is that glorious picture of the latest Ferrari, then clicking on the image will give you a drop-down menu with a Save Image As... option. If you choose Copy Image Location instead then the URL will be copied into the clipboard so you can then paste it anywhere you wish. Be sure to respect the owners copyright, and ask for permission before using any pictures saved this way for anything other than your own viewing pleasure.
Right click on a link (which may be an image) and choose Copy Link Location. This copies the URL to the clipboard so you can then paste it into, say, an e-mail to a friend telling her about this wonderful new site.
Printing a copy of the page you are viewing is easily done with the Menubar Location Print... or Print Frame option or with the Toolbar Print button.

, or File Transfer Protocol, is one of the the earliest, and still perhaps the best, way of transferring files between computers over the Internet.
With you can see files and directories on the distant computer just as if they were on your own system, download them onto your computer using 's normal Copy and Paste or Drag 'n Drop methods and, if allowed, upload files from your machine to the other computer's filesystem. To try it, type the URL

ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde

into the Locationbar and press Enter. As long as you are connected to the Internet, and as long as the 's site is not too busy, you should end up seeing the /pub/kde directory at ftp.kde.org
Although, strictly speaking, URL's should be entered starting with ftp:// and WWW URLs starting with http:// is usually smart enough to figure out what is meant, and insert these characters for you if you leave them out.
When you access an site it will usually need some form of username and password from you. To simplify things, most sites that offer files for free downloading will accept the word anonymous as a username and your email address as a password, and to make your life even easier will automatically supply these without troubling you.
If you try to access a site that does not need a proper username or password but which is too busy to accept any more connections, often interprets the busy message as a request for a name and password and will therefore pop up a dialog box asking you to supply them.
Sites that are more concerned with security will need a proper username and password, in which case will ask you for them or you can include the username in the URL you type into the Locationbar, as for example

ftp://username@ftp.cia.org

will then prompt you for the password.