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Firefox Tips And Tricks
This document summarizes key features and capabilities of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It discusses Firefox's popularity, supported operating systems, core features like tabbed browsing and privacy controls, its high level of customizability through extensions and modifications, and how it can be useful for libraries through custom searches and tools. The document also provides some example links for more information on Firefox, its extensions, and sync tools.
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Firefox Tips And Tricks
- 1. Mozilla Firefox NISInfoconference Presented by: Stephen K. Anthony – CISTI Technology and Research 2006-10-26
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- 3. Popularity Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
- 4. Operating Systems Windows98 Windows ME Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows XP ( Recommended ) Windows Server 2003 Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher Mac OS X 10.2.x and later Available in over 30 languages, including English and French.
- 5. Features All theusual things you expect in a web browser plus: tabbed browsing popup blocking easy search simple privacy better bookmarks/history management
- 6. Features accessible, responsive,intelligent customizable and extendable good download management standards compliant simple and straight-forward
- 7. Customizable Any andall parts of Firefox are customizable. You can change or code to all the buttons, functions, menus. Allows for fantastic extensibility. Plugins can be created or downloaded to extend the existing functionality of Firefox. It is extremely fast and easy to do, as compared with most other browsers. Very popular with library developers.
- 8. Firefox in thelibrary Custom searches Extensions and toolbars for libraries Greasemonkey COinS Help bring the library services to the patron, instead of bringing the patron to the library (website).
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- 51. Nifty tidbit Trythe Google Firefox Sync tool: http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/
- 52. Links Mozilla Firefox- http://www. mozilla .com/ Firefox Extensions - https:// addons . mozilla .org/ Firefox Features - http://www.switch2firefox.com/ Firefox stuff for CISTI - http://lab. cisti - icist . nrc - cnrc . gc .ca/ Google Firefox Tools - http://www. google .com/tools/ firefox /
Editor's Notes
- #2 - For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Stephen Anthony, technology architect. I worked for many years in your directorate as part of the advanced services section before it was discontinued. Some questions before we begin: How many people have used firefox? How many people use it as their regular browser? How many people are having to support patrons who are using it in their institutes?