I Just Downloaded Mozilla's Firefox Browser. Tell Me Anything!

I like the look & feel of this browser thus far. Any helpful hints on taking full advantage of its capabilities would be appreciated :7

i love tabbed browsing and also the free themes you can d/l, etc...

do tabs take up much more memory than windows? What's the advantage of using either one of them over the other?

thanks

with multiple web pages...plus there is an integrated pop-up-blocker and you have a tool-bar with multiple search engines that you can assign the way you like...firefox is a superior product overall...plus it doesn't have alot of the security flaws that IE has.

notice the tabs for the diff websites...plus you can organize your bookmarks in folders on a toolbar too.

How do you capture a screenshot like that?? :shrug:

at the same time....then open an image pgm (photo-shop etc) and open a new canvass and then hit ctrl+v to paste.

peace

I have always wanted to do that!
Yeah, I'm pretty easily amused :) :bounce:

I'll definitely check it out.

favorite features.

Extensions are great though :)

If you really want to kill ads, just modify your userContent.css file to include the code on this page. You'll hardly see any ads again.

Other neat add-ons that I prefer are IE View (to easily view sites that may not be compatible with Firefox), WeatherFox (keeps the weather information in your tool bar), and, of course, the Department of Homeland Insecurity Idiocy Level. ;)

you can get a Google tool bar made just for it.

Download the Google hard drive search and your gold...

I have 1.0

What did I just do?

This extension has usernames and passwords for thousands of sites requiring registration. Just right-click on the text box and you'll be reading in no time..

http://extensions.roachfiend.com/index.php#bugmenot

Firefox has kind of a built-in dictionary. If you type "dict anywordhere" into the browser address bar (without the quotes, of course,) you'll get taken straight to the dictionary.com entry for whatever word you wanted to look up. It's really handy if you're browsing - Ctrl+T for a new tab, type in the dict link, and you've got your definition without interrupting your other surfing.

There's also a Google search bar to the right of the address bar. If you highlight text from the site you are browsing and drag it up to the Google search bar, it'll automatically go run a Google search on those terms.

More fun with tabs: hold Ctrl when clicking on a link to another website and you'll open that link in a new tab. This is great on forums like DU, where you can click somebody's link and go read it and close it down without ever messing up the DU surfing.

-Mark
Hopes that helps

called dictionary search that allows you to highlight the word you want to search and then open a tab from the righclick menu that takes you to dictionary.com.

Much faster way of doing what you describe.

The search bar can have any number of useful sites added to it -- I think it even comes with several pre-installed, because I know I never asked for eBay! Just click the little down arrow next to the G icon and you'll get a list. Click on any of those to do searches in that site -- or on "add engines" at the bottom to customize. I've got Amazon, the Internet Movie Database, Disinfopedia -- all very useful.

Some of the extensions I've found most helpful are:

ieview -- instantly brings the current page up in Internet Explorer for when you hit that occasional site that refuses to be standards-compliant and won't load properly in Firefox

cookie culler -- lets you do things like have all cookies automatically deleted every time you close the browser, except for those you choose to mark as protected (like the one from DU that logs you in automatically)

image zoom -- lets you zoom in or out on images

tabbrowser extensions -- adds a bunch of nifty extras, like the ability to reopen closed tabs or to rearrange the order of tabs

add bookmark here -- lets you click on any folder in your bookmarks and add a link for the current page directly to that folder, rather than having to add everything at the bottom and then move stuff later

Foxytunes - integrates Winamp into Firefox.

Nuke Anything - Zap any web page content that you don't want to see.

Stumbleupon - Very cool toolbar app that brings up random web pages that have been recommended by other users.

I use the Noia 2.0 Extreme theme. It's the best.

Make sure you download the NOIA 2 EXTREME theme IMMEDIATELY!

Click bookmarks, themes and extensions, then search through the themes page for Noia 2 Extreme.

Gray Modern and Phonecity are also AWESOME themes.

You can thank me later.

I wish they had previews for their themes

It's very cool.

If you don't like it, you can always switch back to the default theme.

now I don't know where it is. And finding the theme page-broken. had to search engine it.

Any Idea where the download is? How to apply it?

:)

here is the theme page. Click "install" on the themes and it should automatically put them in the right place. Then click "tools" on top of your screen, and go down to themes, and pick one to use.

https://update.mozilla.org/themes/?application=firefox

edit:

woops, I upgraded to 1.0 last week and now it won't let me use Noia 2 extreme. Maybe you will have better luck. If you can't get it working, Noia 2 "lite" is available, and it works fine (icons only...doesnt make the whole browser turn silver).

Phonecity and Littlefox are my other favorites.

not applied. It didn't create an icon on my desktop; it didn't give me a save to disk option.

and see what is listed there.

Thanks! :hi:

you wont see an icon on your desktop...it was downloaded directly into the browser...all you need to do is pick it now. Click "tools" on the top of your screen, then themes. Scroll down until you see it and hit apply, then restart Firefox.

i'll keep this for now-all this stuff is about getting used to new shit...I am going to check the other ones you recommended too

I found that, but I clicked use theme and nothing...i'll try turning it off.

You usually have to restart Firefox after you install any theme or extension.

middle click ;)

click your mouse "scroll" wheel down when hovering over a link.

Every time I've downloaded it (work, home, buddy's house) it tells me that I need to download the latest Flash Shockwave blah blah blah.

My ONLY complaint about Firfox, and that's no lie.

I uninstalled and reinstalled, then it worked. Some versions won't take some of the plug-ins if they're loaded as .zip files.