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Raspberry Pi OS includes the Chromium web browser, which has been optimized for the Raspberry Pi. You access it from the Globe icon in the top left of the screen (see Figure 4-2), or through the Internet part of the Applications menu.

Figure 4-7 shows the browser in use. Its layout is similar to other browsers you might have used in the past, with a thin toolbar at the top and most of the screen given over to the web page you’re viewing.

If you know the address of the website you want to visit, you can type it into the Address bar, as shown in Figure 4-7. When you start to type an address, a menu under the Address bar suggests pages you’ve previously visited that might match what you want. Click one of these to go straight to it, or carry on typing. When you’ve finished typing the address, press the Enter key.

You can scroll the page using the scroll bar on the right side of the browser or the scroll wheel on your mouse.

When the mouse pointer is over a link, the pointer changes to a small hand. You can then click the left mouse button to follow that link to another web page. The browser keeps a list of the web pages you visit (called your history), so you can click the Back button (refer to Figure 4-7) to retrace your steps and revisit the pages you browsed before the current one. The Forward button beside it takes you forward through your history again.

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FIGURE 4-7: The Chromium browser.

Some web pages update frequently with new information, so you can click the Reload button to download the current page again and see any updates since you first opened it. While a page is downloading, this button becomes a Stop button. Click it to halt the download.

Chromium includes an ad-blocker to strip advertising from the pages you visit. You can change the settings using the button shown in Figure 4-7.