Uses of Firefox
Do you know that there are over 4000 Firefox add-ons that provide extra functionality to your Firefox. You can easily customize Firefox browser according to your requirements. The standard Firefox browser, comes loaded with lots of features but you can always enhance its functionality by installing these add-ons. In order to access these add-ons, just click on tools and select Add-ons. When you do this, Add-ons manager will open. Here you will come to know how to enhance features of Firefox
With Firefox browser, you can search smarter. Firefox comes with a built in search bar. Do you know that it is possible to customize this search bar by choosing any search engine you like. On the left side of the search bar, you will see an icon. Clicking on this icon, you will be able to view menu that displays default options. To choose a favorite search engine, there is no need to use the mouse, instead, you can assign keyboard shortcuts. For instance, to access Google search engine, you could give the shortcut “L” and suppose you want to search recipes to prepare cookies then just type “L cookie recipes” in location bar. This would definitely generate the entire list.
The “find it” instantly feature is also very useful as it finds the word as you type. This is indeed a handy timesaver. There is no need to search for a particular word on the page. Click anywhere on the web page and just type word that you want. As you type the word, the cursor will show you 1st instance of the term. It can also be used for links too.
The download and browsing history of Firefox can be used to know which sites you have browsed and what things you have downloaded. For security reasons, it is not feasible to leave such a trail where one can easily come to know about the sites you accessed. With Firefox browser, you can always delete your download history. Not only that Firefox also allows you to do other things like deleting the cookies and clearing the cache. All this can be done with the help of a single mouse click. In order to delete browsing history, you need to select the tools option and then click on clear private data. Another safe way would be to select the edit option and then choose preferences. Now select the privacy option and then choose “Always delete all my private data whenever I close Firefox”
Firefox also provides an easy way to visit your favorite site. By adding keyboards to all your bookmarks can help you to access your bookmarked site directly. This, in fact is the fastest and the easiest way to access your favorite site. By adding a very short keyboard from the library in keyword field, you can access the bookmark.
t has been observed that advanced internet users frequently are required to keep a track of a number of websites. A very useful timesaver would be to use Firefox 3's library. This will help you to create as well as save searches into a folder. This folder then gets updated automatically as you add websites to your history and bookmarks. First, you will have to open a library. For that you have to select “Organize Bookmarks” from Bookmarks menu. Enter your search term in search box. Now click on save button for creating a smart folder.
Frequent downloaders find it difficult to manage their download. These people can use Firefox's download manager window to track all your downloads. The other things that you can do using this download manager include resuming and pausing the download. You can also keep a track of past download. For that select tools->downloads and then use search box to locate that site.
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