User Interface (UI) elements > Your Internet Browser

The U3Admin.org.au application executes within the context of your Internet browser. It is therefore a special form of a standard web page. All processing is performed on Microsoft Azure servers. Your browser is simply used to display the page and accept your input.

Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari are the most common browsers. However, there are many others; Opera, Brave, Colibri, Iridium and Tor are but a few examples.

The browser you use is completely your choice, so long as it is kept up to date. The software has been tested on Edge, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera.

When using your browser, it is important to know a couple of shortcuts...

Keyboard Shortcut	Function	Description
F1	Help	Access the bowser's help system.
F5	Screen Refresh	Reloads the current tab using cached data, if possible.
Shift-F5	Screen Refresh	Reload the current tab ignoring cached data
F11	Full Screen	Enters/Exists full screen. Ideal if using a small laptop screen.
Tab	Move next field	Used when entering data. Press tab to move from one data entry field to the next.
Shift-Tab	Move previous field	Used when entering data. Press shift-tab to move from one data entry field to the previous.
Mouse click	Link navigation	Click a web page link to navigate to the linked content. Note that a menu item is simply a navigation link with special rendering.
Shift-Mouse click	Link navigation	Click to follow a navigation link but open in a new browser window. This function allows you to have multiple browser pages accessing the same or different U3Admin content at the same time. NB: Use sparingly. Overuse of the function can drain server resources.
Ctrl-Mouse click	Link navigation	Click to follow a navigation link but open in a new browser tab. This function allows you to have multiple browser pages accessing the same or different U3Admin content at the same time. NB: Use sparingly. Overuse of the function can drain server resources.