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03.15.05
Downloaded Firefox? Good. Now Put It To Work For You
 By Trevor Bauknight
So you've read the glowing press and you're sick of the gaping security holes Internet Explorer opens into your personal computer and the personal data it manipulates
You've gone to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox and you've downloaded the latest and greatest in Web browser technology. What next?
You could be content to use it just like you use any other browser. It'll happily import all your Internet Explorer preferences, bookmarks, etc. and let you interact with them the way you always have. You can set Firefox as your default browser and it will pop up when you click a link in your e-mail.
You can do everything you can do with Internet Explorer except run ActiveX controls (this is a feature, not a bug!), so you'll still need to use IE if you want to run Windows Update manually (though if you have Windows XP, we suggest turning on Automatic Updates and not fooling with manual updates anymore.)
Check Your Prefs
The first time you run Firefox, you will be given the option to import your current settings and bookmarks from Internet Explorer. This makes it easy to give Firefox a try without investing a lot of time tweaking it to your liking; and, let's face it, if you try it, you're probably going to keep using it. You'll also be asked at some point if you want to make Firefox your default web browser. We think that's a great idea.
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Under the Tools menu, select Options... to open the Firefox preferences manager. We'll briefly walk through a few of them you may not have thought about. The manager organizes the preferences into five categories: General, Privacy, Web Features, Downloads and Advanced.
The General tab is highlighted automatically, but there isn't much new here. You might find the automatic proxy configuration option under Connections useful.
The Privacy tab contains lots of options dealing with how your browser stores information from your sessions and how it presents it to websites to which you return. Each option gives you the ability to clear all stored information quickly and conveniently. Firefox will offer to save your passwords internally and type in a master password each time it's necessary to access some web content. This feature works flawlessly and is even able to handle multiple logins for single pages. You also have fine-grained control over cookies, those relatively harmless bits of information websites leave behind in your browser to help them recognize you next time you come around.
Under the Web Features tab, there are all kinds of features that make old-time Web purists like me almost giddy. You may already have downloaded some sort of pop-up blocker for IE, but Firefox has this built in, and it's easy to gain control over which sites are allowed and which aren't allowed to spawn new windows all over your screen. You can choose to allow websites to load images or not, or to load them from their server and not allow off-site images that may carry tracking bugs to load.
The Advanced tab is where most of the fun is with Firefox. Here, you can adjust all kinds of default browser behaviors. The best feature of Firefox is tabbed browsing. This enables you to open multiple websites each in its own individual tab in a single browser window. These preferences allow the user to control when new tabs are created and when they come into focus.
We recommend unchecking the box that hides the tab bar when there is only one site open because the visual reminder that you can add tabs instead of opening new windows makes it easier to get used to using the feature. You can also right-click in the tab bar to create new tabs quickly and right-click existing tabs to bring up a contextual menu of options for dealing with them.
There is also a handy Software Update section that allows you to have Firefox automatically check for updates to both itself and to any extensions you have installed. The Advanced tab is also where heavy-duty secure certificate manipulation is handled.
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About the Author:
Trevor Bauknight is a web designer and writer with over 15 years of experience on the Internet. He specializes in the creation and maintenance of business and personal identity online and can be reached at trevor@tryid.com. Stop by http://www.cafeid.com for a free tryout of the revolutionary SiteBuildingSystem and check out our Flash-based website and IMAP e-mail hosting solutions, complete with live support. |
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