Internet Creating, Saving and Opening Favorites

Internet Explorer Favorites and Firefox Bookmarks are both the same idea, and do the same thing.  They are a way for you to save into a list websites that are favorites.  Maybe you have a favorite music site, news site, or school site.  You can save this site in a list on your web browser.  Remember Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome are all web browsers.  Control d in Internet Explorer and Firefox will bring up a box that will allow you to type a name for the favorite or bookmark and then hit the Enter key to save it as a Favorite or a Bookmark.  To bring up the list of Favorites in Internet Explorer or Bookmarks in Firefox, use Alt a for Internet Explorer or Alt b for Firefox.  A list of your Favorites or Bookmarks will appear.  Either hit the first letter of the name of a Favorite or Bookmark, or down arrow to that item.  Hit the Enter key one time and that web page will come up.  You can actually create folders for specific categories of Favorites or Bookmarks.  

If you want to make a Favorites specific folder such as Music in Internet Explorer, press Control D, hit Tab until you get to the "New Folder" button, hit Enter one time, type the name of the new folder, and hit Enter two more times.  If you want to make a folder in Firefox, press Control d, hit Tab two times, hit Enter one time, Tab one time to the "New Folder" button, hit Enter one time, type the name for the "New Folder", hit Enter one time, Tab to the "Done" button and hit Enter one more time.  Your new folder is created.  To add a Favorite or a Bookmark into a folder, go to the web page you want on your list, press Control d, then hit Tab one time to move to the combo type box for folders, then use your arrow keys to navigate to the folder you want, and then hit the Enter key, then Tab to the "Add" button in Internet Explorer, or the "Done" button in Firefox.

When you open the Favorites list (Alt a) or the Bookmarks list (Alt b), you can down arrow through folders and individual links.  If you want to open a folder, simply hit the Enter key one time, and then down arrow through the links in that folder.  When you hear the link to a web page you want to open, hit the Enter key one time and that page will open.

Simple exercise to practice adding and opening a Favorite or Bookmark

1.  Open your web browser.
2.  Move to the Address Bar with a command such as F6, or Control l, Alt d.
3.  Type "www.brlsts.com" (without the quotes)
4.  Hit the Enter key one time.
5.  Press and hold down the Control key and hit the letter "d".
6.  Release the keys.
7.  Hit the Enter key one time to to save the website as a Favorite or a Bookmark.
8.  Move to the Address Bar of the web page.
9.  Type "www.brlsts.us" (without the quotes).
10.  Hit the Enter key one time.
11.  Press Alt a if you are in Internet Explorer, or Alt b if you are in Firefox.
11.  Release the keys.
12.  Down arrow to the link you want to open--in this case the link for "www.brlsts.com".
13.  Hit the Enter key one time and you will be taken to that web page.
14.  Practice steps "2" through "13" above until you are quick and accurate.

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