Improve the browsing experience. Personalize your browser

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More with Firefox

• Jean Anderson
• June 20, 2008

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Why do more with Firefox?

• Why not?
• Improve the browsing experience
• Personalize your browser
• Make your browser work for you
• Make some of your tasks easier
• Its easier than you think

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Todays Add-on Agenda

• Vertigo
• Tab X
• Morning Coffee
• Add to Search Bar
• Screengrab
• Del.icio.us

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Del.icio.us
Morning Coffee
Add to Search Bar
Vertigo
Tab X
Screengrab Del.icio.us
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Vertigo and Tab X

• Moves tabs from the top to the side
• You can have more tabs visible
• One drawback you lose the X to close the tab
• Unless you also install Tab X
• Ensures that every tab has an X to close it
• I recommend adding these together

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Vertigo Morning Coffee before Tab X
No X
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Vertigo with Tab X installed makes closing the
tabs much easier!
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Morning Coffee

• Lets you automate the sites you regularly visit
• Example when you open Firefox where do you
  regularly go?
• For me, its Meebo, Gmail, LibraryThing,
  Bloglines, and eVanced (our scheduling software)
• With Morning Coffee, these open with one click!

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Click on Options to add your favorite web sites
to Morning Coffee
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Add to Search Bar

• Add multiple search engines
• Saves you time
• Access your favorite search engines from one
  place
• Can do more than Google

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Visit a site, right click on the Search bar
Select the Add to Search Bar option
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Click on OK to complete the process
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Your site has been added to the Search Bar
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Screengrab

• Use to capture web pages
• Use to capture images or portions of web pages
• Save or copy the images into a document
• Warning dont change the file name that
  Screengrab assigns when you save the image
• Use as you would a screen shot in
  presentations, documents, flyers, etc.

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Click on the icon and then choose which type of
screengrab you want to do
Screengrab Icon
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An example of a screengrab - selection
File name South Central Library
System_1213846365778.png
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Del.icio.us

• Organize your bookmarks
• Tag them
• More information Week 8 of Project Play
• Play Date More with Del.icio.us
• Next Friday, June 27 at 1000 a.m.
• Register at the SCLS Calendar

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Del.icio.us gives you a tour of its features
after downloading is complete not all add-ons do
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To your del.icio.us account
Tag a web site
To Open Bookmarks
Bookmarks opened on the sidebar close when not
in use
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How do you do it?

• Click on Tools (in your toolbar)
• Then on Add-ons
• This also lists your current add-ons
• Click on Get Extensions
• This takes you out to the Add-ons portion of the
  Firefox website
• https//addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
• Search for add-ons

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From the Tools Bar, go to Add-ons
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This opens a window with your current Add-ons
Notice the Options, Disable and Uninstall buttons
Click here to search for new Add-ons
https//addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
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Click on title for more info
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Look for reviews
Check out the Update Date
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Check out the description to see if the add-on
will do what you want
Also, check out who provides support if needed
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While these reviews arent great check the
date. Firefox 3 was released and the add-on
probably wasnt upgraded yet
And, since were still using Firefox 2 were
good to go!
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Ready?

• If youre satisfied with the information youve
  found on your selected download
• Click on Add to Firefox
• Follow instructions on the screen
• Youll need to restart Firefox for the add-on to
  take effect
• Easy to uninstall if youre not happy with the
  add-on

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How do I find out about Add-ons?

• Lifehacker
• http//lifehacker.com/396510/firefox-3-downloaded-
  eight-million-times
• Other bloggers
• Tasha Saeckers blog
• http//sites.menashalibrary.org/
• Jessamyn West
• http//www.librarian.net/
• http//www.librarian.net/stax/2297/winding-river-l
  ibrary-system-talk-and-notes/

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Questions?

• Jean Anderson
• 608-246-5613
• jfanders_at_scls.lib.wi.us