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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Conventions | |
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| Feedback | |
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| Getting Fired Up | |
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| Why You Should Fire Your Old Browser | |
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| What Is a Browser, Anyway? | |
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| Why Use Firefox? | |
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| Finding Your Way Around Firefox | |
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| Wandering the Web | |
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| A Browser Is Not a Search Engine | |
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| Using the Firefox Interface | |
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| Setting Up Firefox | |
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| System Requirements | |
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| Getting Firefox | |
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| Installing Firefox with the Setup Wizard | |
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| Importing Your Information | |
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| Switching from Internet Explorer | |
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| Switching from Apple Safari | |
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| Reporting Broken Web Sites | |
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| Ready, Aim, Firefox | |
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| Finding Information Online | |
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| Searching the Web with Firefox | |
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| Finding Text within a Page | |
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| Bookmarking Great Sites | |
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| Creating and Accessing Bookmarks | |
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| Organizing Your Bookmarks | |
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| Importing and Exporting Bookmarks | |
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| Returning to Sites You've Visited | |
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| Navigating Short-Term History | |
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| Delving into Long-Term History | |
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| Browsing with Tabs | |
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| Getting Started with Tabs | |
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| Super Tabbing: Advanced Tips and Tricks | |
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| Filling In Forms Quickly | |
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| Saving Your Sanity with Saved Forms | |
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| Saving Login Information for Fast Access to Web Sites | |
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| Blocking Popup Ads | |
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| Blocking Popup Windows | |
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| Viewing Blocked Popup Windows | |
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| E-Mailing with Thunderbird | |
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| Getting Thunderbird | |
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| Setting Up Your E-Mail Account | |
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| Receiving, Reading, and Searching E-Mail | |
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| Composing E-Mails | |
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| Creating an Address Book | |
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| Blocking Junk Mail | |
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| Getting Additional Help with Thunderbird | |
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| Downloading and Saving Files | |
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| Downloading Music, Pictures, and Other Files | |
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| Saving Web Sites | |
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| Using the Download Manager | |
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| Printing Web Pages | |
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| Using Print Preview | |
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| Configuring Print Options and Printing a Web Site | |
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| Finding Additional Help | |
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| Using the Help Window | |
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| Getting Help on the Web | |
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| Outfoxing Hackers | |
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| Clearing Your Tracks | |
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| Using the Clear Private Data Feature | |
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| Working One-on-One with Your Data | |
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| Staying Safe Online | |
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| Phishing, Pharming, and Phriends | |
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| Using the PwdHash Extension | |
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| Preventing Spyware and Viruses | |
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| Staying Up-to-Date | |
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| Dressing Up the Fox | |
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| Setting Your Options | |
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| Using the Options Window | |
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| Oodles of Options | |
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| Finding Your Dream Theme | |
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| Going to the Theme Park | |
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| Ensuring Theme Compatibility | |
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| Installing and Applying Themes | |
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| Updating Themes | |
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| Troubleshooting Themes | |
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| Uninstalling Themes | |
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| Tailoring Your Toolbars | |
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| Changing the Items on Your Toolbars | |
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| Adding, Hiding, and Removing Toolbars | |
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| Changing the Appearance of Your Toolbar Buttons | |
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| Restoring the Default Configuration | |
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| Controlling the Way Web Sites Look | |
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| Enlarging and Shrinking Text | |
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| Changing Web Site Colors | |
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| Changing How Firefox Displays Images | |
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| Viewing Web Sites in Full Screen Mode | |
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| Extending Firefox | |
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| Finding Great Extensions | |
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| Ensuring Extension Compatibility | |
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| Installing Extensions | |
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| Using Extensions | |
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| Managing Your Extensions | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Secrets to a Foxier Web | |
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| The Find Bar Can Read Your Mind | |
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| Stopping Annoying Web Sites in Their Tracks | |
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| Making Your Privacy a One-Button Affair | |
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| Put It on My Tab! | |
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| Bookmarklets: The Baby Extensions | |
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| A Home for Every Occasion | |
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| Name That Bookmark! | |
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| Enjoying a Speedier Search | |
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| Feng Shui for Your Toolbars | |
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| The Scroll Wheel: Not Just for Scrolling | |
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| The Ten Best Firefox Extensions | |
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| Before Getting Started | |
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| Gaining Peace of Mind with SessionSaver | |
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| StumbleUpon the Web's Best Secrets | |
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| Kissing Ads Goodbye with AdBlock | |
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| A New Way to Surf with Mouse Gestures | |
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| Playing Music without Leaving Firefox | |
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| The Web Your Way with Greasemonkey | |
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| Managing Bookmarks More Efficiently | |
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| Keeping an Eye on Your Downloads | |
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| Making the World's Largest Scrapbook | |
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| Honey, I Shrunk the Link! | |
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| Firefox Menu Reference | |
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| The File Menu | |
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| New Window | |
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| New Tab | |
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| Open Location | |
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| Open File | |
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| Close | |
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| Close Window | |
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| Close Tab | |
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| Save Page As | |
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| Save Frame As | |
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| Send Link | |
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| Page Setup | |
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| Print Preview | |
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| Print | |
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| Import | |
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| Work Offline | |
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| Exit | |
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| The Edit Menu | |
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| Undo | |
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| Redo | |
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| Cut | |
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| Copy | |
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| Paste | |
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| Delete | |
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| Select All | |
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| Find in This Page | |
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| Find Again | |
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| The View Menu | |
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| Toolbars | |
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| Status Bar | |
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| Sidebar | |
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| Stop | |
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| Reload | |
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| Text Size | |
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| Page Style | |
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| Character Encoding | |
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| Page Source | |
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| Full Screen | |
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| The Go Menu | |
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| Back | |
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| Forward | |
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| Home | |
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| The list of Web sites | |
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| History | |
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| The Bookmarks Menu | |
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| Bookmark This Page | |
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| Bookmark All Tabs | |
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| Manage Bookmarks | |
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| The list of bookmarks | |
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| The Tools Menu | |
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| Web Search | |
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| Read Mail | |
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| New Message | |
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| Downloads | |
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| Extensions | |
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| JavaScript Console | |
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| Page Info | |
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| Clear Private Data | |
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| Options | |
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| The Help Menu | |
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| Help Contents | |
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| For Internet Explorer Users | |
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| Report Broken Website | |
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| Check for Updates | |
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| About Mozilla Firefox | |
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| Firefox Keyboard Reference | |
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| Navigation | |
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| Tabbed Browsing | |
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| Text Editing and Selection | |
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| Searching a Page | |
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| Searching the Web | |
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| Loading Web Addresses | |
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| Opening and Closing Windows and Sidebars | |
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| Miscellaneous | |
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| Accessing Web Site Elements with the Keyboard | |
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| Firefox Drag-and-Drop Reference | |
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| Getting to Know Drag-and-Drop | |
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| Getting to the Good Stuff | |
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| Loading a link in a tab or window | |
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| Loading a link in a new tab | |
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| Adding a link to your bookmarks | |
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| Downloading a file | |
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| Searching for text | |
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| Setting your home page | |
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| Creating a desktop shortcut | |
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| Customizing your toolbars | |
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| Rearranging your tabs | |
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| Extending Drag-and-Drop Further | |
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| Index | |