Complete transcript of Intro to Firefox Tutorial by Jacob Cleary

Downloading and Installing

To download Firefox you'll want to launch an Internet browser such as
Internet Explorer.

Then you'll want to go to www.mozilla.org.

At Mozilla.org there will be a couple of locations you can download
Firefox.  It might be in the main screen or if not there you'll want to
go to products and then find Firefox and then select the free download
on the righthand side of the screen.

This free download should automatically determine your operating system.

If your on XP you'll be asked if you want to save that file, in this
case you'll say yes and choose the desktop to save it to then Firefox
will begin downloading.

If for some reason you needed to change the type of download your
choosing there is an option underneath the free download screen.

Then you'll want to close that file download screen, close Internet
Explorer, and then open the application either by right clicking on it
and choosing open or double-clicking it.

On Windows XP Service Pack 2 you'll be asked if you want to run this
program, in this case you'll want to choose yes.

Then it will begin extracting the installation program.  On the first
screen you'll want to chose next to begin installation.

Then you'll be asked to accept the software's terms and liscense
agreement.  You'll choose accept and and then next.

Then you'll be asked if you want to do standard or custom installation. 
We'll choose standard and then select next.

Then it will be showing you the location where Firefox is being
installed.  You choose next to install.

If you want to change the location of where Firefox is being installed
you would have wanted to choose custom rather than standard
installation.

You'll also be given the option to install developer tools if you chose
custom.

Once Firefox is installed, in this case it will be under C://Program
Files/Firefox/ you'll then be asked a couple of questions.

You'll be asked if you want to use Firefox Start as your homepage and if
you want to launch Firefox immediately upon the closing of the
installation program.

If you didn't want to either of those you'd deselect the checkboxes
here, in this case we'll chose to do both and click finish.

The first time Firefox launches you'll be asked if you want to use
Firefox as your default browser, in this case we'll choose yes.

Importing Preferences

To import settings from your previous browser, you'll want to go to File
and then select Import.  You'll then be given a list of browsers that
are installed on your computer.

In this case we only have Microsoft Internet Explorer so it
automatically defaults to that.

We'll then select next after we selected our browser and then will be
given a list of options we want to import from the previous browser.

In this case we'll choose to import all and then select next.  After
it's finished importing you'll want to select finish.

To use the bookmarks from the bookmarks from the previous browser you go
to Bookmarks and there should be a folder called From whatever broswer
name.

Tabbed Browsing

One attractive feature of Firefox is tabbed browsing.

Tabbed browsing allows you to have multiple windows open in the same
browser screen.

To open a new tab you can go to File and select New Tab or you can press
control + T in Windows or if having to your using a Mac option + T.

Another way to open a new tab is to hold down the control tab as you
select a link and it will open the link in a new tab.

To navigate between tabs you can either select the tab... the title of
the tab on the tab bar or if you hold down control and then press tab it
will cycle through the tab bar.

To close tabs there should be an X at the right side of the tab bar you
can select that, you can also right-click on the tab you would like to
close and select close tab, or you can go to File and select close tab.

Another attractive feature of Firefox is it's ability to blockup ads
which is built into the browser.

When you encounter popup ads there are several ways its indicated. 
There will be a toolbar that appears right underneath the tab toolbar
when you encounter a popup.

There will also be an X in the bottom lower right-hand corner of the
screen.  If you click on either of these you'll get the same options.

To allow popups from the site that your at.  Edit popup blocker options
or show the ad this one time.  It also not to show anymore information.

If you edit popup blocker options you'll be then taken to a menu. Where
you'll be able more enter than one site that you would like to allow
popups from.

If you choose to select: Don't show this message anymore.

When popups are blocked it will inform you that then the only way that
it will be indicated that popups have been blocked is there will be an X
in the lower righthand corner of the screen.

If you want to go back to the Edit popup blocker options.  You'll want
to go to Tools and then select Options, go to Web Features and then in
Web Features select the allowed sites of the popup windows.

Then here you'll be able to add more sites or remove them if you don't
want them any longer.

Popup Blocking

Another attractive feature of Firefox is it's ability to blockup ads
which is built into the browser.

When you encounter popup ads there are several ways its indicated. 
There will be a toolbar that appears right underneath the tab toolbar
when you encounter a popup.

There will also be an X in the bottom lower right-hand corner of the
screen.  If you click on either of these you'll get the same options.

To allow popups from the site that your at.  Edit popup blocker options
or show the ad this one time.  It also not to show anymore information.

If you edit popup blocker options you'll be then taken to a menu. Where
you'll be able more enter than one site that you would like to allow
popups from.

If you choose to select: Don't show this message anymore.

When popups are blocked it will inform you that then the only way that
it will be indicated that popups have been blocked is there will be an X
in the lower righthand corner of the screen.

If you want to go back to the Edit popup blocker options.  You'll want
to go to Tools and then select Options, go to Web Features and then in
Web Features select the allowed sites of the popup windows.

Then here you'll be able to add more sites or remove them if you don't
want them any longer.

Searches: Keyword & Integrated Search Box

One attractive feature of Firefox is the ability to create customized
keyword searches for any search box on the Internet.

In this case we'll show you how to make one for the University of Texas
homepage.  You'll just right-click on the search box, select Add a
Keyword for this search.

You'll then be asked to give a name and a keyword for that search box. 
In this case we're going to choose utexas as our keyword.

What this keyword allows you to do is in the Location bar search select
a... put in a keyword that you selected and then follow it by search
terms which then will automatically search that search box.

Sends ... Firefox to that search box and uses the search terms you
entered.  In this case we'll use utexas and then scholarships grants and
fellowships.

After entering the keyword followed by the search terms if you hit enter
in the Location bar it will then take Firefox to that search engine that
the keyword is associated with using those search terms.

Another nice search function of Firefox is the Search Box located in the
upper righthand corner of the Location bar which allows you to have
search multiple search engines by entering search terms in there and
hitting go or enter.  You'll also have a the option to add more engines
which in this case we just added A9 search and Alta Vista.

This is very useful and allows you to quickly search multiple search
engines. 05:43 For example, using the Search box we can search multiple
search engines for the same terms we used on the utexas site, grants,
scholarships, and fellowships.

If you hold down ALT when we hit enter in the either in the (Location)
toolbar or the Search box it will open these things in new tabs.

So this way we were able to search Google, Yahoo, A9, and Alta Vista for
fellowships, scholarships, and grants all very quickly and all in the
same window.

In that then we'll be able to tab between the different results and
choose different locations to investigate.  This is all done through the
Search toolbox in the upper righthand corner of the screen.

Live Bookmarks

Another exciting feature of Firefox is the ability to create Live
Bookmarks which incorporate RSS feeds.

To create a Live Bookmark when you come to a site that has an RSS feed
you'll see a orange broadcast symbol located in the bottom righthand
corner of the screen.

Right next to where a popup blocker thing (indicator) would be.  If you
click on that (orange broadcast symbol) you'll have the option to
subscribe to the RSS. 06:43 If you choose/select to do that you'll then
be asked to confrim the name and where to put that bookmark.

When you open the(Live) bookmark it will show a list of all the stories
listed in the RSS feed.  To refresh the RSS feed if you right click on
it on then select refresh Live Bookmarks.

In this case they are the same. (stories before and after refreshing the
RSS feed)

If for whatever reason the RSS symbol is not appearing in the bottom
righthand corner of the screen you can also create a Live bookmark if
you know the location (of the feed).

Go into Bookmarks, select Manage Bookmarks and then go to File and
select New Live Bookmark.

You'll then be asked to give a name for the Live Bookmark, in this case
we'll choose US National News - Yahoo and then we will paste the feed
location into the feed option that we had copied earlier.

Selecting OK this will add thiis Live Bookmark to the Bookmarks menu and
you can see you can see the list of stories associated with that Live
Bookmark.

Of course you can refresh the same way (as described earlier) and then
as you can see (after refreshing) nothing has changed.

So you can add Live Bookmarks in two ways, either you can use the RSS
feed symbol in the bottom righthand corner of the screen or you can do
it manually if you know the XML feed location.

Live Bookmarks then allow you to go to an of the stories associated with
this list by clicking on the bookmark within the Live Bookmark.

Themes and Extensions

To add an extension to Firefox, you'll want to go to Tools and then
Extensions and click (select) Get More Extensions within the Extensions
menu.

Extensions are community developed add-ons to Firefox or other Mozilla
programs that expand or improve features within Firefox.

In this case we are going to select a news reader that would instead of
doing Live Bookmarks from RSS feeds woud take the stories itself and
allow you read clips from it (the stories) rather than having to go to
the site itself.  In this case, when you to select to install one
(extension) you have to restart Firefox after installing an extension. 
So you have to close out Firefox.08:49 When you close Firefox and you
have tabs open Firefox will warn you (that you have tabs open.)  If you
want to save these tabs (before you close) you can bookmark this page
and choose Bookmark all tabs in a folder.  In this case we are going to
name it browsing so that we can come back to it later. 09:00 So after
saving the tabs that are open by adding a bookmark of all the tabs, as
you can see they are all there.  We'll close up Firefox's windows to
finish installing the extension.

Then if we launch Firefox again, when we open the Tools, Extension Menu
we'll see that our Sage RSS feed reader that we installed is now
operational and so access this from Tools.

This would open Sage in a sidebar that woulld list the feeds that Sage
is currently subscribed to.

So this is a way to add and extend features of Firefox.

Themes are a way to change the look of Firefox and are they installed in
a very similar way to Extensions except you go to Themes rather than
Extensions (under Tools).

Now if we wanted to go back to all the things we were browsing earlier
we would go to the browsing folder (in Bookmarks and select) Open all
tabs and everything we had looked at before would be available again.