Some useful tricks when using Firefox
Sometimes, it happens that you come across sites in which the font size is so small, it becomes impossible to read the content. There is absolutely no need to worry as font size can be easily increased by utilizing the font size. With Firefox browser, it is possible to zoom in to enlarge the tiny text. You can get a close up view of that image using the zoom in feature. In order to use this feature, press the Ctrl button and holding the button, press the “+” button.
The work that you do in your office may require you to open a number of web pages at a time. Opening many web browser windows would be indeed tiresome. An effective way that can be easily implemented is tabbed browsing where you can open multiple web pages in same window. Do you want to open new tab? In order to use this feature, press the Ctrl button and holding the button, press the “T” button. Do you wish to open a particular link in new tab? Well, you could do this by simply clicking the middle mouse button on the link. For closing the button press the Ctrl button and holding the button, press the “W” button. You can also reopen a tab that has been closed. For doing this, press the Ctrl button and holding the button, press the “Shift + T” button.
Adding bookmarks using Firefox has never been so easy before. A single mouse click is more than sufficient to add bookmarks. One click bookmarking is the best way to keep a track of sites that you like. Suppose you access a website and visit a particular web page. Now in case you like that page and want Firefox to remember it, then clicking on star icon in location bar would definitely give the desired result. The browser simply adds your web page in bookmarks list. So the next time, you want to find the web page, just search the bookmarks list.
There are a number of websites on the Web that are fake. This tactic commonly used by Web scammers is called phishing sites, that is done to steal your bank account or other e-commerce site. Visiting such websites can be indeed be very harmful. But if you have installed Firefox, you can easily identify whether the site is fake or not. It is very easy to identify such sites. What you need to do is click on website and the identity overview can be instantly overviewed. Using Firefox is the best way to deal with such a problem.
There are some other shortcuts that are also extremely useful. Do you want to move cursor to search box without actually even touching the cursor? An easy way to do it is press “Ctrl” and then press “L”. Do you wish to move cursor to search box then just press “Ctrl” + “K”.A simple way to refresh the page would be to press the Ctrl button and then holding the button, press the “R” button. To go to the previous web page, there is no need to use the cursor and press the back arrow button. Instead of that press the alt button and holding the button, press the “” button.
Even though you build a big list of bookmarks, it becomes very difficult to keep a track of all them. This indeed can become a bit messy. The best way to stay organized would be assign tags to all your bookmarked sites. To do that just click on star icon and a screen will appear asking you to enter all your tags.
Now, you can easily tag a website with a single term or many terms. This will help you to easily find websites again. For that, all you have to do is type the tag into location bar. For instance, if you type the word “travel” into location bar,immediately you will be able to see sites that you have bookmarked.
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