How does one use Firefox?

Published on February 13, 2005 By kona0197 In Internet

After fighting a losing battle and after realizing how messed up IE is, I have decided to try out other browsers. I now admit that maybe even if IE is a bit faster Firefox has more features. The more features I have at my disposal the more work I can get done. Not to mention you guys are right about IE not being the most "secure" browser out there.

So I want to try to figure out Firefox first. But I need help.

My biggest gripe about Firefox was the fact it never imported favorites EXACTLY as they are laid out in Ie. I heard there is an extension or program that will import them as they are in IE?

And what extensions do I need to use tabs?

I'm sure I will have more questions soon.... Might even start using Thunderbird!

Comments (Page 2)

tjesterb

on Feb 14, 2005

To open a group of tabs on launch, open the four sites you want in tabs ( you may need an "open new tab" icon on your toolbar if you don't already have one there. To put one there right-click on teh toolbar, and from teh window that opens drag the "new tab" icon onto the toolbar) You can get the 4 tabs open either by opening a new tab with the icon you just dragged onto the toolbar, and then typing in the site address, or you can right-click on a bookmark and and select "open in new tab" Once you have the sites you want open, go to Tools>Options select the General button, and under "Home Page" select "use current"
If you're still using the 1.0PR, you may want to switch up to the final 1.0. I think there were several bugs fixed between the two.
It's late and I'm tired,so forgive the spelling and spacing errors.

Kevin_C

on Feb 15, 2005

Right now I need infor on turning on tabs and how to make Firefox load 4 pages when starting in tabs. I'm using version 1.0PR if it matters

OK, the best extension for extending the built in tab support is:

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/tbe

It will allow you to control every aspect of tabbed browsing and then some. It will let you manage tabs in groups and it will let you do like you mentioned and open a previous group of however many tabs you want when FF starts up.

As far as the favorites go, you might want to look into something like:

http://companion.mozdev.org/

This extension basically adds the Yahoo toolbar to FF. I know you're probably asking yourself why would you want to use the Yahoo toolbar when you can use the Google toolbar. Well, I use it because the Yahoo toolbar lets you store your favorites online, so you can have access to them from ANY computer you use, which as you can imagine is VERY handy. I believe it will even import from IE, it probably won't order them exactly like you want but if you go through the pain once, you'll never have to do it again because they will stay online even through re-installs and upgrades to your OS.

If you need some more good extensions let me know, I use about 10 right now and all of them are quite handy.

Good Luck!!

Dovelady8

on Feb 16, 2005

Tabbed browsing is wonderful - if you do not use a Logitech mouse to do it. I had to buy another mouse just to be able to middle click and have a link open up in a tab.

Maxthon is based on the IE shell - so there are potential problems because of this. Maxthon is stable, too. If you install/use Maxthon while FF is loaded, your URL links won't open in FF unless you uninstall Maxthon.

Be *very careful* with any tweaks to speed up FF's performance. My computer almost crashed totally when I tried one of the fixes. Psikotik is right.

Overall, Firefox 1.0 is a solid choice and one you won't regret. Knowing FF isn't vulnerable to problems the way IE is, is worth my peace of mind.

CerebroJD

on Feb 16, 2005

Time since reformat: 5 weeks
Spyware on computer: 2 items

This is using Firefox...the last time I tried it with IE, I averaged about 9 per day.

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