Firefox

Why Firefox? http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Integrated Google Search: Type the query in search bar or select a word and right click to search.

Fast:

Tabbed Browsing: Save a set of frequently visited sites and open all of them when you start your browser!

Block Popup: No need of installing IE 6.0 + Google toolbar to stop annoying pop ups.

Print: You can now set header, footer, page orientation (Landscape/ portrait), shrink to fit page width option, check print preview and more.

Find as you type.

RSS Reader: Supports In-built RSS/atom reader so you don't need one more software.

Keyword Shortcuts

Browsing:-

Add Bookmark: Ctrl + D

Find Again: F3 OR Ctrl + G

New Tab: Ctrl + T Or double click on Tab Bar Or right click a link and choose new tab Or Ctrl + Click the link.

Next Tab: Ctrl + Tab or Ctrl + PageDown

Previous Tab: Ctrl + Shift + Tab or Ctrl + PageUp

Select Tab: Ctrl + (1 to 9)

Select search Bar: Ctrl + K

Search results in new tab Alt + Enter

Change search engine Ctrl+Up/down

Delete autocomplete entry Shift + Del

Font Size:-

Decrease font: Ctrl + -

Increase Font: Ctrl + +

Restore Font: Ctrl + 0

SideBar:-

Downloads: Ctrl + Y

Bookmarks: Ctrl + B

History: Ctrl + H

Page Info Ctrl + J

RSS Reader Panel: Alt + R (If installed)

RSS Reader Sage: Alt + S (If installed)

Quicknote Ctrl + F7 (If installed)

Lookahead Alt = (If installed)

Extensions For students http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/

Indic Input Extension: Type in any Indian Language

Girgit: Transliterate from one Indian script to another for e.g. Hindi to Gujarati

Clustybar: To find dictionary meaning and encyclopedia entry for a word simply hitting the right click!

http://clickspeak.clcworld.net/ CLiCk, Speak provides point-and-click screen reading, which can be helpful for partially-sighted users or sighted users who have written language difficulties (such as dyslexia).

SQLite Manager : to learn SQL

QuickNote: A note taking extension with advanced features.

Nuke Anything enhanced : Adds a "Remove this object" entry to the right-click context menu.

ChatZilla: lets you connect to IRC server.

FireFTP: Client for firefox

Web Developer toolbar: for web masters

Scribe : Open and save form entries as files.

Tips

When firefox encounters a popup, it places an icon in the status bar. If you want to see what's in the popup that was blocked, double click the icon and choose "Unblock Site"

Display Text: Goto Tools – Options – Content You can set the minimum font size a web page can have. From “Fonts and Colors” – Advanced… - Minimum font size option. You can also deselect the “Load images automatically” so that images will not be loaded and the page will load faster and you save bandwidth.

If you want the standard font and text in full width then choose View – Page Style – No Style

To bookmark all tabs in one click, choose Bookmarks – Bookmark all tabs…

Search Bar You can create your own plug-in that can be used in the Search bar instead of Google. Save the following code with an extension .src (for e.g. quick.src) in the following directory. C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxsearchplugins <search name="furl" description="Furl Search" method="GET" action="http://furl.net/search"> <input name="act" value="sitesearch"> <input name="keyword" user> </search>

Search from Address bar