Bright Browser - In-world web browser + home, zoom & bookmark buttons: for you & your visitors!

The Bright Browser is an in-world browser which allows your avatar to surf the web while inside Second Life.

You can also allow others to view it, and finely control their access to the address bar and the control buttons - restricting these to yourself, your group, anyone, or no one.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The browser uses a Second Life feature called "prim media" which is not supported by the old version 1 Second Life viewer, or viewers like Phoenix which are based on it. We recommend that you use either the current version 2 official viewer, or if you don't care for it (and most of those who've stuck to v1 and Phoenix have done so because they don't) try Firestorm, also created by the Phoenix team.

MAIN MENU

Begin by rezzing your browser. Below the main screen, you will see a row of five buttons:

Power: switches the browser on and off.

Home: returns to the home page: by default, this is google.com.

Zoom: allows you to expand or shrink the web page image.

Bookmarks: displays a list of 'bookmarked' or 'favourite' websites.

Eye logo: navigates to brightcorporation.net.

SETTINGS

To display the settings menu, click the cog in the top-right corner of the browser:

Power access: selects who can use the power button.

Home access: selects who can use the home button.

Zoom access: selects who can use the zoom button.

Bookmarks access: selects who can use the bookmarks button.

Bar access: selects who sees the 'control bar' above the browser - with back, forward, and refresh buttons and so forth.

Bar type: switches between a 'standard' and 'mini' control bar - the latter has no address box.

Auto-focus: if enabled, this repositions a user's camera in front of the browser when they use it.

BOOKMARKS

Right-click your browser, click 'Edit', and select the 'Contents' tab: then double click the 'Bookmarks' notecard to edit it.

Each line in this notecard is a 'bookmark', and appears as on option on the menu displayed by the 'bookmarks' button.

Some lines are provided by way of example, but you may edit them as you wish, and add as many as you wish.

Each line is made up of two parts separated by a vertical bar. The first part is the name which should appear on the menu button, the second part is the website address: eg.

Second Life|http://secondlife.com

(Note that Second Life menus restrict button names to 24 characters, only the first 12 or so of which actually appear on the button, so keep these short and unique.)

The first bookmark is the 'home page', which the browser will display when the 'home' button is clicked, and will revert to when the browser is not in use (ie. there are no avatars within 20m).

TIPS

* Run a personal blog, or a company website? Put a browser in your home or shop and show it to your friends and visitors!

* If you want to restrict your browser to show your website, switch to a 'mini' control bar (or disable it altogether), and either restrict the bookmarks button or remove unwanted sites from the bookmarks notecard.

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