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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/
