If you're running a recent version of Firefox, you might want to have a look at our articles covering Firefox 1.5.
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://texturizer.net/firebird/keyboard.html.
Popups can at times be very annoying if you haven't taken precautions. If you go Tools > Options... You will get the options menu, from the left menu in the options menu choose "Web Features", you should have 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 of popups.
Now, the first time you enter a website that uses popups, you'll get a dialog that tells you that popups are being blocked, and in the lower right corner of the browser, an icon will appear each time a popup is blocked:
Some sites require the use of popups to function properly, if you need to toggle the popup-settings for a given site, click on the icon in the lower left corner and use the following window:
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.
This is the third in a series of articles about Mozilla Firefox, if you have Mozilla Firefox related topics you'd like to see covered here, let us know. Comments on this article, thumbs up or flames,can be sent to articles@nidelven-it.no. If you need help using Firefox, we recommend using the Firefox forums.
If you're running a recent version of Firefox, you might want to have a look at our articles covering Firefox 1.5.
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