Internet Explorer

The Internet Explorer app is a vastly scaled-down version of desktop Internet Explorer. Besides standard web browsing (that is, typing a new address, clicking links, and using the Back and Forward buttons to navigate your session history), you can only do the following with the Internet Explorer app:

Select a frequent site—When you click inside the Address box, Internet Explorer displays a list of the websites you’ve visited most often, as shown in Figure 5.4. Click one of those tiles to surf to that site.

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Figure 5.4. The Internet Explorer app maintains a list of sites you’ve visited often.

Pin a site—Rather than storing ...

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