Sunday, August 17, 2008

Some Tips of Mozilla Firefox

1)Zooming: If you get any small font or tiny text in your browser you can enlarge your text by simply pressing
CTRL + plus (+) sign (zoom out) or
CTRL + minus(-) sign (zoom in)

2)Handling Tabs: With firefox you can handle many web page in a single firefox window with the help of tabbed browsing.
CTRL+T will open a new empty tab on an existing firefox window.
CTRL+W will close the current tab.
CTRL+SHIFT+T will will reopen a close tab.
Middle click on a link will open a link in a new tab.

3)Single click bookmarking: While browsing if you find any page useful then you can simply bookmark that page with single click bookmarking so that you can easily find that page from Bookmarking menu. To do single click bookmarking just click star button on the location bar. Your current page will be added to the bookmark.

4)Useful keyboard Shortcut:
CTRL+L will move your cursor to the Address bar so that you can type a new site.
CTRL+K will move your cursor to the search bar so that you can search on net.
CTRL+F will move your cursor to find bar so that you can search text within your current page. This is specially helpful in order to search a word on a larger webpage.
CTRL+N will open a new firfox window.
CTRL+O will open a new file in your firefox browser window.
CTRL+SHIFT+W will close your current window.
CTRL+S will save your current page.
CTRL+P will print your web page.
CTRL+R will reload your current web page.
CTRL+0 will reset your zooming.
F11 will show your browser in full screen.
CTRL+D will bookmark your current page.
CTRL+SHIFT+D will bookmark all current page.
CTRL+SHIFT+B will prompt you to organize bookmarks.
CTRL+J will show you your download window.

5)Assign Tags to bookmarks: If you have many bookmarks entry then you can distinguish them easily by assigning them into tags. In order to do that just double click on the star button in the location bar. There you will see Tags tab. Just simply give a name. In order to give a page multiple tags just separate them by comma. Later to find the page just enter tag name in the location bar. The sites will appear from them you can choose.

6)Add ons: You can do a lots of task you wish to make firefox works. To do it,
go to Tools → Add-ons to open the Add-ons Manager and discover all the ways you can make Firefox your own.

7)Manage Search Engines: Just at the left on the search bar (You can see a big G for google) click on the drop down menu. You will see a list of search engines. Click on the Manage Search Engines and from there you can edit, move up and down and remove a search engine.

8)Clear Private Data: After browsing if you want not to keep track your browsing and downloading history you can clear your private data. To do it go to Tools and select clear private data.

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