Firefox

Once you experience having more than one website, or pages from the same website, open in tabs you will find it hard to use the internet any other way. Firefox supports tabbed browsing:

How to experience tabbed browsing:

Open your webmail (or any other page you commonly use) in firefox.

File New Tab (or Ctrl T) You can now open another website and easily return to your email etc by clicking on the Tab heading.

I use gmail, lycos mail and another webmail. So - I opened each of them in a tab. I then opened a new tab but did not type in an address.

I saved all the tabs as a bookmark:

• Bookmarks
• Bookmark All Tabs
• Called the bookmark - Email
• Create in - Use the drop down arrow and select Bookmarks Toolbar. A folder now appears on your toolbar.
• I now made these tabs my home page: Tools, Options, Use current pages (Homepage)

Now when Firefox starts up my tabs open - three email tabs plus a blank tab I can use for searching: Click on the tab to make it the active tab. Type a search in the Google spot on the toolbar (top right)press enter and the search results appear without disturbing the email tabs.

If your tabs get into disarray, clicking on the email folder on the toolbar will reinstate all your home page tabs.

Themes

You can download a theme or 'skin'for Firefox from among a large number of themes. Two I have tried are:

Noia 2.0 (eXtreme) - A bright and different way to experience Firefox.

Pimpzilla 3.21 - A textured, gold theme, with a background bar of leopard pattern which makes tabs stand out well.

Try some others as well some time.

Recipe:

-Tools -Themes -Get More Themes

Look at the top themes which are listed together with the number of times each has been downloaded.

Maybe check any of the categories on the left hand tab.

Aardvark by karmatics.com An extension for working on a web page before printing. It is not installed via Firefox extensions so there is some uncertainty whether it could contain malicious code. Googling did not give rise to any complaints though.

These command key allocations are from the website: Printable Chart

W Wider Select a wider area. For instance, if you have selected a table cell, pressing W will select the table row

N Narrower Undo the last "Wider" command

Q Quit Quit Aardvark (that is, stop selecting elements), until you restart it from the menu

U Undo Undo the last "remove" or "isolate" command.

R Remove Delete the selected element

I Isolate Delete everything surrounding the selected element

E Erase Clear the element of all content, while fixing its dimensions

B Black on white Set the element (and all contained elements) to be black text on white background

C Colorize Sets the element's background to a random color

V View Source Shows the source code of the element (with indenting and color highlighting)

D "De-widthify" Removes any fixed width values from the element (and any contained elements)