firefox tips and tricks
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Presentation about Firefox browser for the CISTI NIS InfoConference Oct 26, 2006TRANSCRIPT
Mozilla Firefox
NIS Infoconference
Presented by:
Stephen K. Anthony – CISTI Technology and Research
2006-10-26
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorfed/272070086/
Popularity
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Operating Systems
• Windows 98• Windows ME• Windows NT 4.0• Windows 2000• Windows XP (Recommended)• Windows Server 2003• Linux kernel - 2.2.14 or higher • Mac OS X 10.2.x and later • Available in over 30 languages, including English and
French.
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Features
• All the usual things you expect in a web browser plus:
• tabbed browsing
• popup blocking
• easy search
• simple privacy
• better bookmarks/history management
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Features
• accessible, responsive, intelligent
• customizable and extendable
• good download management
• standards compliant
• simple and straight-forward
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Customizable
• Any and all parts of Firefox are customizable.• You can change or code to all the buttons,
functions, menus.• Allows for fantastic extensibility.• Plugins can be created or downloaded to
extend the existing functionality of Firefox.• It is extremely fast and easy to do, as
compared with most other browsers.• Very popular with library developers.
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Firefox in the library
• Custom searches
• Extensions and toolbars for libraries
• Greasemonkey
• COinS
• Help bring the library services to the patron, instead of bringing the patron to the library (website).
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Nifty tidbit
• Try the Google Firefox Sync tool:
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/
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Links
• Mozilla Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/
• Firefox Extensions - https://addons.mozilla.org/
• Firefox Features - http://www.switch2firefox.com/
• Firefox stuff for CISTI - http://lab.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/
• Google Firefox Tools - http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/