What is it? It is an alternate browser which is far better than Internet Explorer. My favorite feature is the tabbed browsing. Hit “ctrl” and “t”, a new tab opens instead of a new window. You can also right-click on a link in a web page, then select “open in a new tab” and a new tab is now visible at the top of the page. Click the tab and you see the page you wanted, click on the first tab and – you are right back in the page you started on. I like one window with many tabs. Skip the 10million windows!
Another feature I really like is the RSS live bookmark feature. Many sites are now offering “live” bookmarks which allow a person to click on a bookmark in firefox and see the titles of all the articles available to read. This is great for blogs or news sites. When a site offers rss a symbol in the lower right corner of firefox shows up. Click it and then choose to add the bookmark. If you know the RSS link for a site you can add it by clicking “bookmarks” menu, open the “manage bookmarks” and then click “file”, “new live bookmark”.
Once you install it, right-click on the main toolbar and click “customize”. Drag icons such as print, history, bookmarks, and any other tools you want during your online browsing.
Once you have done this, click on “tools” and select “themes”. You will see you have one theme available – for a different theme click the “get more themes” text in the bottom right of the themes window.
Firefox has many tools for making the internet do what you want it to do. Click on “tools” then “extensions” and then the text which says, “get more extensions”. Among the many available, I enjoy the “bug me not” extension which allows me to “register” for news or info sights without handing my contact info to yet another web site requiring such in order to browse or read the site.