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Kindle 2 User’s Guide 2 nd Edition 69
CHAPTER 6
Accessing the Web
Your Kindle comes with an Experimental application called Basic Web, which is a Web browser
optimized to read Web sites that are primarily text-based. It supports JavaScript, SSL and
cookies but does not support media plug-ins (Flash, Shockwave, etc.) or Java applets.
6.1 Using Basic Web
There are three ways to open the Basic Web browser. The two main ways are to select "Basic
Web" from the Experimental screen or to follow a link from within your reading material. Many
of the blogs that you subscribe to from the Kindle Store have links to Web sites. Selecting these
links will open Basic Web and take you to the URL associated with the link. If you select "Basic
Web" from the Experimental page, you will open to the last Web site you were viewing in your
browser.
One other way of accessing the Basic Web browser is to type in a word anytime from any book,
blog, newspaper, or magazine you happen to be reading. When you begin typing, a search box
will pop up at the bottom of the screen, and you can move the 5-way controller to the right and
select "google" or "wikipedia" from the menu to search those sites directly for the word you
typed.
Entering a URL
To enter the URL for a Web site, navigate to the top of the screen or press Menu and select
"Enter URL" from the menu options. Begin typing when the cursor is located in the menu bar.
When you are done typing, press the 5-way controller to view that Web site.
The URL text field retains the last URL you entered in case you want to quickly edit the same
address and submit it again. If you want to enter a secure site with an "https" address, use the
backspace key to delete the automatically entered "://" and type the address you want.