Firefox Browser Tutorials

Firefox Browser Installation

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Mozilla Firefox Setup

Software License Agreement

• I Accept the terms of the License Agreement

Setup Type

• Standard

Select Components

Intall Complete

Importing other browser settings

Window/dialogue box name

Import Wizard : Import settings and data form

• Select the name of the other browser

Import Wizard : Items to Import

• Select the item that you want to import. If unsure import all.

Open different profiles directly from desktop shortcuts

Create as many shortcuts to Firefox.exe as many profiles you have

Right click on a shortcut and select properties

In the Shortcut to Firefox Properties window, in the Target: field add the following text after the closing after the closing double qoutations

-p "YourChoosenProfileName"

Example

"[Path to Firefox.exe]" -p "NEOXEEKHROBE"

How to find the default profile folder

Windows

Open Windows Explorer

Click on C:

Open Tools > Folder Options

Click on the View tab

In the Advanced Settings: field select the option Files and Folder > Hidden files and folders > Show hidden files and folders ( )

Click OK

On Windows XP/2000 the path is usually C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

Linux

The path is usually ~/.mozilla/firefox/

Mac OS X

On Mac OS X, the path is usually ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/

Backing Up

Close all Mozilla products

To save your settings back up the profiles folder if you are reinstalling your OS or Firefox.

Getting Firefox to open multiple sites/pages on startup.

Open Tools > Options.

Enter the urls in the Location(s): box. Just Seperate each url by | (Shift + \).

Press Ok.

If you have started Firefox after going online and the pages are not loading, then open File > Work Offline, this will bring you in the online mode.

If you place | before the first url then on startup Firefox will open an additional empty tab with all the start pages

Adding a folder to your bookmarks

Open Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks

In the Bookmarks folder

Click on the Bookmarks folder in the right pane () or click the subfolder above which you want your new folder to appear.

Press the New Folder () button

In the Properties for "New Folder" window enter the name of the folder.

Press OK

In the Subfolders

Click on the desired subfolder

In the left pane click on the bookmark above which you want the new folder to appear

Press the New Folder () button

In the Properties for "New Folder" window enter the name of the folder.

Press OK

Drop down list on a Bookmarks Toolbar

Creating folders with bookmarks inside the bookmarks toolbar folder gives you a drop down list of your bookmarks from Bookmarks Toolbar

Adding more functions (Extensions)

Open Tools > Extensions

In Extension window click Get More Extenstions. Extension page at addons.mozilla.org will open in the browser.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/?application={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}

Click on any of the categories on the left.

How to add Extensions

Either click on the list on the left or choose from

Top Rated Firefox Extensions
Most Popular Firefox Extensions
Newest Firefox Extensions

For this example we will Select the Auto Copy extension

Click on the Link and on the Auto Copy - Firefox Extension page click on Install Now.

In the Software Installation window Click Install Now

Close all Firefox windows and restart Firefox.

See this icon in the lower right corner of the browser.

Also open Tools > Extensions

Allowing popups for certain sites

Open Tools > Options

Click on Web Features ( )

Click the Allowed Sites button on the right of Block Popup Windows

Enter URL in the Adress of the web site: field

Click Allow

Click Ok

Allowing Popups while online

While surfing, if Firefox blocks a popup it show a message and an info icon.

Message

Left click on this message bar gives for three options

Click the red x button on the right ( ) to close the message bar

Info icon

Left click on this info icon also gives three options

Blocking Popups

Open Tools > Options

Click on Web Features ( )

Tick the option Block Popup Windows

Bookmark more than one tab as one folder

Open the pages in tabs in one window.

Open Bookmarks > Bookmark This Page... (Ctrl + D)

In the name: field type the a desired name for the folder that will contain all these bookmarks.

From the Create in: drop down menu select the folder to save this folder in

Check Bookmark all tabs in a folder

Click OK

Bookmarks and History Sidebars

Open View > Sidebar

Select

Bookmarks(Ctrl + B) or

History(Ctrl + H)

A sidebar on the left will appear.

In the Search feild you can enter a keyword and Firefox will search through the contents of the sidebar.

Click or Ctrl + H(History) or Ctrl + B(Bookmarks) to close.

Bookmark Toolbar

Open View(Alt + V) > Toolbar > Bookmarks Toolbar

Adding Bookmarks to the Bookmarks Toolbar

While surfing press Ctrl + D to bookmark a page.

In the Add Bookmark window choose Bookmarks Toolbar Folder from Create in: dropdown menu
( ).

Press OK

Buttons in the Customize Toolbar window

	Divides the bar
	One Flexible Space covers all the empty space on the bar. Add another and the two will divide the empty space
	Places about half a centimeter of empty space
	Prints the opened page. (Ctrl + P)
	Opens the Download Window. (Ctrl + J)
	Opens history of visited sites. (Ctrl + H)
	Opens the default e-mail application
	Opens the list of Bookmarks
	Adds a new tab for browsing in the same Firefox browser window
	opens a new Firefox browser window
	Cuts the selected
	Copies the selected
	Pastes from clipboard

	Icons and Text	Shows both Icons and the text on the buttons
	Icons	Shows only Icons
	Text	Shows only Text

Change Font Sizes

While pressing the Ctrl key, move the mouse wheel up to decrease font size or press Ctrl + -

While pressing the Ctrl key, move the mouse wheel down to increase font size or press Ctrl + +

Press Ctrl + 0 (zero) to return the font size to back to default

Cleaning your Address bar history

Selected

Press Ctrl + L

Press the Esc key once

Press the Down Arrow key once

Don't use the mouse

Now use the Down Arrow key to move down the list and highlight the address that you want to remove

Press Shift + Delete

All

Open Tools > Options

Click on Privacy ( )

Press the Clear button to the right of History

Cleaning your Online Search bar history

Press Ctrl + K

Press the Down Arrow key once

Don't use the mouse

Now use the Down Arrow key to move down the list and highlight the Search that you want to remove

Press Shift + Delete

Completing URL address with keyboard

Press Ctrl + L

Type the name of the site in the address bar

Press Ctrl + Enter to add http://www. and .com

Press Shift + Enter to add http://www. and .net

Press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to add http://www. and .org

Controlling animated images

In the address bar type about:config

In the Filter: field type image

Press Enter

Click on image.animation_mode in the Preference name column

In the Value column double click on normal to change it

In the Enter string value window, type,

None, it will stop all animations

Once, images will animate once

Normal, images will animate normally

Copying files in a page that are not saved with File > Save As function

(Or you can use the Scarpbook Extension (more easier))

For example Flash files

Open the page from which you want to save a .swf file (flash)

Right click anywhere on the page

Select View Page Source or press Ctrl + U

Open Edit > Find or press Ctrl + F

At the bottom of View-source window enter the text '.swf '

Press Enter

There might be more than one file with .swf extension

Remember the name before the .swf extoinsion

In the Firefox window open Tools > Page Info

In the Page Info window click on the Media tab

Find your flash file and click Save As.. button

Download Manager

Open Tools ( Alt + T ) > Downloads

Downloads window will show all the downloads.

Click Open or Remove hyperlinks to open the downloaded file(if you have downloaded any) on the left.

In the Download Manager click the folder icon ( ) at the bottom to open your download folder.

Click the Clean Up Button ( ) to clean all the downloads from the download manager list. Downloads wount be removed from your computer.

Download Manager Settings

Open Tools ( Alt + T ) > Options

Click on Downloads ( )

Keywords for bookmarks

Open Bookmarks

Right click on a bookmark

Select Properties

In the Keyword: field type a short name(or just initials) for this bookmark

Click OK

To open this bookmark, enter the short name in the address bar

Press Enter

Moving between current and past pages

You can use back and Forward buttons

You can use Shift + Mouse wheel up/down

You can use Alt + Right/Left arrow keys

Online Search Bar

Press Ctrl + K

Type your search keywords

Press Enter

Address bar as both, Address bar and Google search bar

In the address bar type about:config

Press Enter

In the Filter: field type the word url

In the result find the following two lines

browser.search.defaulturl

and

keyword.URL

Right click on each line

Select modify

In the Enter String Value dialogue box paste the following code

http://www.google.com/search?&q=

Opening Download Manager in a Tab

Copy the following link

chrome://mozapps/content/downloads/downloads.xul

Paste it in the address bar

Press Enter

Press Ctrl + D

Give this bookmark a name

Click OK

Selecting a part of a page

Clicking the Left mouse button while the Ctrl key is pressed will select the part of the page under the mouse pointer

Press Ctrl + C to copy it to clipboard

To copy large amount of text but not the whole page

Left click at the begining of the text that you want to copy

Shift + Right click at the end of the text.

Tab Browsing

The above graphic shows tabs. With tabs you can open many pages in one window.

Tabs
Open	Press Ctrl +T or or double Clicking empty space on the Tab Bar will open a new tab or Ctrl + click on links, bookmarks, bookmark folders, history items, and toolbar buttons to open them in a new tab Type a url in the address bar or a keyword in the online search bar and then press Alt-Enter and the result will be in a new tab
Reload	Press F5 key
Moving between	press Ctrl + Page Up/Page Down keys. or press Ctrl + Tab keys
Close	Press Ctrl + W or click on on the right
Right clicking on a tab gives the following options	New Tab Reload Tab Reload All Tabs Close Other Tabs Close tab

Text search in a page

Open Edit > Find in the page...

or press Ctrl + F

A search bar opens at the bottom of the screen.

To change users (Profiles)

First close all Firefox windows.

Goto start > run

Type the command firefox -p

Click on the profile name that you want to work with.

Click Start Firefox.

Button customization on Firefox bars

To add or remove buttons, open View > Toolbars > or Right click on a toolbar Customize

From the Customize Toolbar window Drag the icons to and from the

toolbar() or the

menubar().

My Menu and Tool bar as one

Download manager during surfing

During surfing click on a hyperlink ( for bigger files )

Click Save to Disk ( )

Click OK.

During a download click Cancel or Pause to stop or pause the download respectively.

To open the file without saving select Browse.

In the Choose Helper Application window select the application for that file and click Open.

Stopping images from loading

Open Tools > Options

Click on Web Features ( )

Uncheck the option Load Images

Click OK

Moving the tabbar to the bottom

Install the Tabbrowser Preferences Extension

Close and restart Firefox

Open Tools > Options

Click on Tabbed Browsing ( )icon

Open Features

Check the option Place the tabbar on the bottom of the window

Click OK

Close and restart Firefox

Adding search engines to the online search bar

Click on the icon on the left inside the online search bar ( )

From the drop down menu select Add Engines

This will open a page where you will find a link Find lots of other search engines

Click this link and it will open the following page

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html

Under the heading Install search engines you can search and install search engines

Using only your own icons for your bookmarks on the Bookmark toolbar

Install the extension Favicon Picker

Restart Firefox

Open Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks

In the Manage Bookmarks window open the Bookmark toolbar folder

Right clink on a bookmark

Select Properties

Delete everything in the name field ( if you desire type a dot here this is helpful while backing up the bookmark file )

Icon: field select browse

Find and select your icon

Click Open

Click OK

Updates of your favorite sites (RSS)

If this icon appears on the lower right corner of firefox window while surfing a site it means that you can recieve updates from this site through RSS(Real Simple Syndicate)

If you frequent a site and want to recieve updates each time you go online then click on this icon and select Subscribe to 'Sitename RSS'

A bookmark will be added

Next time you go online, before going to your fav site check the live update(depending on the speed of the conection it may take few secs to recieve the updates) by opening Bookmarks > RSS bookmark > Update Links

Choose what you want to see by clicking on one of the update links