At the top of both Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator, there are a variety of buttons. They have some buttons in common like the "Home", "Back", "Forward" and "Stop" buttons. The "Home" button takes you back to your home page or first page that is loaded each time the browser is opened. The "Back" button takes you the last page or web site you were visiting. The "Forward" button of course takes you forward one page. The "Stop" button is used to interrupt a page while it is loading. You can stop pages if you don't want the content to load or if you think the page is taking too long to come up.

There is another button that is very useful. Internet Explorer calls it "Refresh" and Netscape calls it "Reload". The purpose of this button is to cause the current web page you are visiting to load again. That can become particularly useful in cases where the information you are viewing is time sensitive like an auction, news site, or stock report.