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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Mouse Potato's Mozzila Firefox tips

There are lots of web browsers that are out today. One of those browsers is Mozzila Firefox and it’s a popular one aside from the usual Microsoft Internet Explorer. Since I noticed that most users nowadays are using firefox, I decided to put up some tips that might help those users.
- Like in Internet explorer, you can view a window in a full screen mode by pressing the F11 key. Press the same key (F11) to return to how it was.
- A lot of internet users have sites that they usually visit. You can access the sites that you usually visit in just two clicks. All you have to do is to create a folder in your bookmarks that contains the webpages that users visit daily. Right-click that folder and click “Open in Tabs” so that you can get all your favorites in the folder opened in a new tab.
- You can quickly scroll one page at a time by pressing the space bar. Move back a page at a time by pressing the shift + spacebar key.
- You can access full configuration menu by typing "about:config" in the address bar. Opening this window can help you change a lot of different settings. Pressing Ctrl + T will help you open up a new window. Press and hold CTRL + # where # is 1-9 to be able to switch between tabs in the open window. Holding down the CTRL key while clicking on the link in an ooen page will open that link in a tab.
- You can save any media including embedded content to an alternate source. This can be done 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.
- Pressing the F6 key will quickly get you to the address bar.
- Press CTRL + Shift + T to undo a close tab. Pressing this more than once will undo multiple closed tabs.

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.

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".

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