WebsterXL has extensive rapid-access features for getting to pages on the web. At any point in your travels, you can mark a page as being one that interests you, and one which you might like to get back to easily at a future date, by clicking on the add to hotlist button about two thirds of the way along the toolbar. This will add a bookmark to the hotlist window, which you can give a more suitable name if you wish.
Clicking on the hotlist button on the toolbar allows you to see all your bookmarked pages, and double clicking on one will open a new window and start the fetching of that page. Pressing menu over the hotlist window gives you various control options, allowing you to edit the bookmark details (eg. to give it a new name or to update the address), sort the list, delete a bookmark, or re-fetch its title.
A very useful feature is to create a sub-hotlist. This allows you to categorize your hotlist entries, so you could, for example, create a new hotlist for all you Acorn-related sites to stop them cluttering up your main hotlist.
Whenever you visit a web page during a session, WebsterXL will add that page to its session history list (the button to the left of the hotlist icon). This allows you to rapidly access pages which you have viewed previously, without having to fuss with the forwards and backwards buttons. It can also be useful to see which pages have been accessed during your browsing session. To revisit a page in the history list, simply click on the history button, then double click on the page to view it.
You can toggle whether pictures are displayed or not either by pressing the "Image" button on the far right of the WebsterXL toolbar, or by ticking/unticking the Inline Images option on the Display menu from the WebsterXL main page menu. Disabling images dramatically improves the load time for a page as much less data has to be downloaded. If you have a slow modem, then we strongly recommend disabling images to speed up your browsing.
Finally, WebsterXL lets you set a homepage for your system. By default this is set to the pages you are viewing now, but you may wish to make your own homepage (with a package such as R-Comp’s HTMLEdit) and use that instead. To do so, simply view the page you wish to become your homepage in the browser, press menu over the main browser window and choose the Set Home option on the Misc sub- menu.