Fine-Tuning Your Browser

It doesn't happen often, but every once in a while I surf on over to a Web site that I expect to be in English but then find out it is Spanish instead. That can happen because I have my browser set to give preference to Spanish-language pages — if a Web site is designed in both Spanish and English, the Spanish version shows up first. If you have a computer system that's newer than two years, you can probably set your browser quite easily to do the same thing. (Even with older systems it's usually possible, especially if you're using a browser such as Opera.) Here's how.