General Preferences

Each browser has option settings where you can set some general preferences to customize your browser. We will discuss some of the common settings found.
To edit to your Browser's preferences see help for your browser. Here are some common ways to access the preferences (but, this may be different for your Browser or the version of it you have)

Select "Options->General Preferences"
Select "Edit->Preferences"

Appearance

This is one part of the settings where you can influence how the following appear:

Toolbar appearance
Slection of Homepage
How links appear

Fonts

Determines standard font you view see.

Colors

Can change:

Links colors from those designed/choose on each webpage to a constant one.
Make Color of background of all webpages the same
Make Color of text of all webpages the same.

Images

Can change if will try to view images as loading the webpage, etc.

Apps

This signifies some special applications you may use, will discuss later.

Helpers

There are many kinds of images, video, graphics, audio file formats and your browser (any browser) can not play all of them. Thus, you may need other software on your computer to be able to view them. This is where you can tell your browser what peice of software (what helper application) to use when it can not view a particular piece of data. We will play with this more later.

Language

This is where you can choose your default language.