At the later part of this topic, you would be able to see screenshots showing you how a plugin warning or error would look like.
What is a search engine?
The best example that can be given for this question is Google. The Google site was designed to help people find information that are stored in other sites. This is convenient for people who do not know what specific site would they need to visit for things that they would need to research for.
What is an Internet Cookie?
Simplifying this, internet cookie is a piece of text that a Web Server could store on a user's hard disk. For example, when you visit www.amazon.com, an automatic text file will be stored in your computer's hard disk. This text will usually look like this:
session-id-time 954242000 amazon.com/
There has always been a misconception regarding cookies. It has often been regarded as a “program” that a Web server would store in the computer and gather information about you and your Internet activities. This is not correct.
What is Browsing History?
The browsing history is like a log record. It keeps track of the addresses/URL of the sites that you've been to. This is really helpful if you want to go to a specific site however, you do not remember the exact URL, just browse through your internet history or use a search string that would help you pull up all matching site that were previously visited.
Another logic of the browser history is that it helps the browser load a site faster. Because it has already downloaded the site before, it will take lesser time for the browser to load it up for you by using the browser history. However, on the other hand, too much browser history in the disk space of the computer may cause slow speeds for the PC as well. Thus, users should always limit the history space to atleast 20MB.
What is Cache?
Cache (pronounced as cash) is more or less related to the browsing history. While the Browser History takes note of the URL of the site and the links related to this site, the cache will store the contents of the site itself. That is why, it is possible that you can get the yahoo.com site even if your internet connection is offline because your browser has already captured the screen representation of yahoo when you visited it before…however, when you click on the links, that's when you will get a page cannot be displayed error.
Thus, it is necessary that you do not only let your customer visit ONE site to prove that they are surfing…let them go to atleast 2-3 other websites.
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