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(^42) THE OFFICIAL RASPBERRY PI BEGINNER'S GUIDE
The Chromium web browser
To practise using your Pi, start by loading the Chromium web browser: click on the raspberry
icon at the top-left to bring up the menu, move your mouse pointer to select the Internet
category, and click on Chromium Web Browser to load it (Figure 3-11).
5 Figure 3-11: The Chromium web browser
If you’ve used Google’s Chrome browser on another computer, Chromium will be
immediately familiar. As a web browser, Chromium lets you visit websites, play videos, games,
and even communicate with people all over the world on forums and chat sites.
Start using Chromium by maximising its window so it takes up more of the screen: find the
three icons at the top-right of the Chromium window titlebar (M) and click on the middle, box-
like icon (O). This is the maximise button, and will make a window fill the screen. To the left of
maximise is minimise (N), which will hide a window until you click on it in the taskbar at the
top of the screen. The cross to the right of maximise is close (P), and does exactly what you’d
expect: closes the window.
Click in the address bar at the top of the Chromium window – the big white bar with
a magnifying glass on the left-hand side – and type http://www.raspberrypi.org, then press
the ENTER key on your keyboard. The Raspberry Pi website will load (Figure 3-12). You
can also type searches into the address bar: try searching for ‘Raspberry Pi’, ‘Raspbian’,
or ‘Educational Computing’.
CLOSE AND SAVE
Closing a window before you’ve saved any work you’ve done
is a bad idea; while many programs will warn you to save
when you click the close button, others won’t.