Firefox Tutorials: Managing Search Engines

We had previously learnt how to use the Search Provider or Search Engine to look up for the information we needed. We also knew that Firefox was packed with built-in Search Engines. That way, anyone could easily switch between them in order to retrieve better search results.

Firefox Tutorials: Searching for Information

Now as we come up with how to do the tab browsing, we can use the browser as  the tool to find the information we need. There were times on the old browsers, we had to remember the address of each search provider (i.e. the website that provides the service to look up for the infos) in order to use it.

Firefox Tutorials: Tab Browsing

At previous tutorial, we’ve learnt web browsing basics. Please keep in mind that we do browse using one active “tab” only. But the true power of a browser lies on what we called “tab browsing”.
It’s such a useful feature that enable us to browse multiple sites at once using different tabs in a browser. You could save the time waiting for a site to load up (unless you’re patient enough), by viewing other sites at the same instance.

Firefox Tutorials: Browsing Basics

Now that Firefox’s interface had been explained, let’s just learn how to browse, the simple way. But before doing so, remember that you need a web address to go to. It’s just like you’re going somewhere, based on the address you remembered already. Otherwise, you’d likely get lost somewhere (or not go anywhere!).

Firefox Tutorials: Learning The Interface

As you’d familiarized yourself with how to open and quit Firefox, now let’s learn how Firefox interacts with you, or this is called the interface.
When you open Firefox (assuming you’re already connected to the internet), it will show up like this. So let’s get to know every part of the interface and what it does.

Firefox Tutorials: Opening and Quitting It

After installing it, there’s just so many ways for you to open Firefox. The simplest ones are using shortcuts located on desktop or on Quick Launch Toolbars.
Notice that if you uncheck the option to create a desktop shortcut, you won’t find a Firefox shortcut on your desktop.

Firefox Tutorials: Installation Steps

After getting to know what Firefox is, let’s review the installation steps prior to using it. But first, get yourself a copy of the software at the official site.
In this tutorial, I’ll install Firefox (version 3.5.3) in Windows XP. Generally, the installation steps involved are the same for any version of Firefox and Windows you are currently using.

Firefox Tutorials: Introduction

In order to retrieve the information from internet, you need a piece of software, called browser. Today, there are just so many of it that you can use. I remembered back in the day where Internet Explorer – the browser that Microsoft had created – was just so superior to Netscape Navigator. Being integrated to Windows environment had made this become (well, almost) one and only choice for the users to surf the web. But things are quite different now, there are also competitors like Mozilla’s Firefox, Opera’s Opera, Apple’s Safari and yet, Google’s Chrome.

Capturing Screen Display: More About Snipping Tool

Well, Snipping Tool can actually do more than just capturing specific area of the screen. The “snips” or captured area could be set to free-form, windowed, or full-screen one, instead of the “normal”, rectangular one.

Capturing Screen Display: The Snipping Tool

Are you using Windows Vista? Are you trying to grab what your screen displays? If the answer is “yes” for both questions, then your job can be a lot easier. Vista came pre-loaded with screen capture utility, called Snipping Tool. This comes in handy when you want to capture specific area of the screen.