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More with Firefox

Jean Anderson

June 20, 2008

Why do more with Firefox?

Why not? Improve the browsing experience Personalize your browser Make your browser work for you Make some of your tasks easier It’s easier than you think

Today’s Add-on Agenda

Vertigo Tab X Morning Coffee Add to Search Bar Screengrab Del.icio.us

Morning Coffee Del.icio.usAdd to Search Bar

Vertigo

Tab X

Screengrab & Del.icio.us

Vertigo and Tab X

Moves tabs from the top to the side You can have more tabs visible One drawback – you lose the X to close the

tab Unless… you also install Tab X Ensures that every tab has an X to close it I recommend adding these together

Vertigo & Morning Coffee before Tab X

No X

Vertigo with Tab X installed – makes closing the tabs much easier!

Morning Coffee

Let’s you automate the sites you regularly visit

Example – when you open Firefox – where do you regularly go?

For me, it’s Meebo, Gmail, LibraryThing, Bloglines, and eVanced (our scheduling software)

With Morning Coffee, these open with one click!

Click on Options to add your favorite web sites to Morning Coffee

Add to Search Bar

Add multiple search engines Saves you time Access your favorite search engines from

one place Can do more than Google

Visit a site, right click on the Search bar

Select the Add to Search Bar option

Click on OK to complete the process

Your site has been added to the Search Bar

Screengrab

Use to capture web pages Use to capture images or portions of web

pages Save or copy the images into a document Warning – don’t change the file name that

Screengrab assigns when you save the image

Use as you would a screen shot – in presentations, documents, flyers, etc.

Screengrab Icon

Click on the icon and then choose which type of screengrab you want to do

An example of a screengrab - selection

File name: South Central Library System_1213846365778.png

Del.icio.us

Organize your bookmarks Tag them More information – Week 8 of Project Play Play Date: More with Del.icio.us

Next Friday, June 27 at 10:00 a.m. Register at the SCLS Calendar

Del.icio.us gives you a tour of its features after downloading is complete – not all add-ons do

Bookmarks opened on the sidebar – close when not in use

To Open Bookmarks

To your del.icio.us account

Tag a web site

How do you do it?

Click on Tools (in your toolbar) Then on Add-ons This also lists your current add-ons Click on Get Extensions This takes you out to the Add-ons portion of

the Firefox website https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ Search for add-ons

From the Tools Bar, go to Add-ons

This opens a window with your current Add-ons

Click here to search for new Add-ons

Notice the Options, Disable and Uninstall buttons

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Click on title for more info

Look for reviews Check out the Update Date

Check out the description to see if the add-on will do what you want

Also, check out who provides support – if needed

While these reviews aren’t great – check the date. Firefox 3 was released and the add-on probably wasn’t upgraded – yet

And, since we’re still using Firefox 2 – we’re good to go!

Ready?

If you’re satisfied with the information you’ve found on your selected download

Click on Add to Firefox Follow instructions on the screen You’ll need to restart Firefox for the add-on to

take effect Easy to uninstall – if you’re not happy with

the add-on

How do I find out about Add-ons? Lifehacker

http://lifehacker.com/396510/firefox-3-downloaded-eight-million-times

Other bloggers Tasha Saecker’s blog

http://sites.menashalibrary.org/ Jessamyn West

http://www.librarian.net/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/2297/winding-river-library-sy

stem-talk-and-notes/

Questions?

Jean Anderson

608-246-5613

jfanders@scls.lib.wi.us