With a flexible application like Mozilla Firefox, it's important you know your way around with the keyboard and the mouse. In this part of the article I will talk about some basic commands, where to find them and how to keep things efficient. In addition I will talk a bit about blocking popups.
Many of us prefer to use the mouse when we navigate in a web browser, you can by right-clicking over a certain area get a variety of options. Use your mouse and right click and you will see different options for different areas of the browser.
However, if you're fan of your keyboard, there are a few basic commands you should know:
These are some of the basic commands you can use, in addition there are some more, you can view all of these commands in the drop down menus under File, Edit and View. For a complete listing of shortcuts, see http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard.
Popups can at times be very annoying if you haven't taken precautions. If you go Tools > Options... or Edit > Preferences.. you will get the options menu, from the top menu in the options view choose "Web Features", you should get this window:
If you want to completely remove popups, make sure the "block popup windows" is checked. You can then give selected sites the right to use popups.
Now, when you enter a website that uses popups, you'll get a dialog
that tells you that popups are being blocked, and it's possible to
click on it to customize the options for the current site - useful if
the site is using popups as a part of the interface:
A little side note in the end, many popups are a result of surfing different pages with insecure browsers like Internet Explorer, something that can result in hidden programs added to your hard disk. Such programs can be removed using the excellent freeware program Ad-Aware, you can get your copy here.
Introduction to Mozilla Firefox, part 1 (Installation)