Discovering Mozilla Firefox: an introduction

by Hamish Taylor

Thursday, 04 September 2008

Page 2 of 3 Searching in web pages In Internet Explorer if you want to find a word or piece of text in a web page you go to the Edit menu then click on "Find on this page". Alternatively you can use the keystrokes Control-F. In the search box you type in what you want to search for and click Next.   In Firefox you can also use Edit, Find or the Control-F keystrokes. However, you can also go to Edit, Preferences, Advanced, then under the Accessibilty section, enable "Search for text when I start typing". Now when you have a web page open, you can just start typing and if the text is in the page, Firefox will take you directly to it. And if you want the next hit on the same page, use Control-G. Whilst it doesn't sound like much, it is a big time saver, and once you start using it you won't look back! This feature is exceptionally useful for doing things like quickly finding technical information in long-winded forums.   Tabs After a long wait, tabbed browsing was introduced to Internet Explorer in version 7. Those of us who have been using Firefox 1.x, 2.x and 3.x and its previous incarnations, Phoenix and Firebird, have been enjoying tabbed browsing for a very, very long time.   To open a new tab in Firefox, you can click on File, New Tab, or just use Control-T. Ironically, Control-T also works in Internet Explorer. I wonder why?   To close a tab in both IE7 and Firefox, click on the really obvious X. And in both Firefox and IE7 you can use the Control-W keystrokes to close tabs.   Setting a proxy server If you use a proxy server and need to set the address in Firefox go to Edit, Preferences, Advanced, Network, Settings and set the appropriate address information.   Please read onto Page 3 for a few word on why I think Firefox is a great browser to use!   << First page <   1 2 3 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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