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Below is a listing of various tips that can be used
with Mozilla Firefox. Some of the below tips may list a
date next to them for the month and year that they were
featured in our monthly tip
section.
If you're looking for more general Internet tips you may
also wish to visit our Internet
tips section. 5/2008 - Quickly
bookmark a web page
Bookmark any web page form field and quickly access it from
the browser address bar. Below is an example of how you could
bookmark the Computer Hope search and quickly search for help
anytime .
1. Right-click on the search box in the top left portion of
this window.
2. Click "Add a keyword for this search".
3. In the Add bookmark window, type any name or leave it blank
and for the keyword make it something simple and easy to
remember. For example, "CH" for "Computer Hope" and click Ok.
Now in your address bar you can type: "CH " and then anything
you need help with. For example typing: "CH motherbaord" would
open the search results for motherboard.
4/2008 - Undo closed tab
Oops did you mistakenly close a tab you
didn't want to close? Press CTRL + Shift + T to
undo a close tab. Pressing this more than once will undo
multiple closed tabs.
8/2007 - Quickly
bookmark a web page
Quickly bookmark any web page in all
major browsers by pressing
CTRL + D on your keyboard. Pressing these two keys
together will open the bookmarks or favorites for your
browser and allow you to quickly place a bookmark for
the page you're currently at. For example, pressing the
two keys now would bookmark this page.
5/2007 - Internet browser bookmarks
Sort your Internet browser favorites or bookmarks in alphabetical
name order by following the below steps.
Firefox: Click Bookmarks and within bookmarks
click your right mouse button and select Sort by Name.
4/2007 - Bookmark search engines
Bookmark almost any search engine and have the
capability of using it anywhere by following the below simple steps.
- Right-click within the text box you wish to
bookmark and click "Add a keyword for this Search.."
- Enter a name for the bookmark and then a keyword
you wish to use. For example, if you were doing this in computer
hope you could type "ch" as your keyword and then click Ok to
create the bookmark.
- Once created in the URL bar type your keyword
and what you wish to search for. For example, if you used "ch"
as your keyword and wanted to search for Firefox you'd type: "ch
firefox".
2/2007 - Get to the address bar using your
keyboard
Quickly get to the
address
bar in Internet Explorer and
Mozilla
Firefox
by pressing the
F6
key on
the top of your
keyboard.
Opera users
can press the
F8
key to get to the address bar.
8/2005 - Mozilla Firefox
Quickly save any media including embedded content to an alternate source by right-clicking on a page click "View Page Info", click the Media tab, locate the media file you wish to save and click the Save As button.
4/2005 - Mozilla Firefox
Some quick tips
for Mozilla Firefox users. First, quickly access the
full configuration menu in Firefox by typing "about:config"
in the address bar. In this window you can change a lot
of different settings. Second, quickly open a new tab by
pressing CTRL + T. Third, press and hold CTRL + # where
# is 1 - 9 to switch between tabs in the open window. Finally, hold down CTRL while
clicking a link to open that link in a tab or hold SHIFT
while clicking a link to open that link in a new window.
2/2005 - Quickly scroll using the space bar
Quickly scroll one page at a time in
Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox by pressing the spacebar. Move
backup a page at a time by pressing shift + spacebar.
1/2005 - Full screen Internet
Make your Internet Explorer or
Mozilla Firefox the full screen without all the toolbars by pressing
the F11 key. To restore the window back to how it was press F11
again.
10/2004 - Mozilla Firefox
Open all your daily visited web pages in two clicks. First, create a folder in your bookmarks that contains the web pages you visit daily. Once created you can right-click that folder and click "Open in Tabs" to get all your favorites in the folder opened in a new tab in the current window.
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