Learn Firefox

Introduction

Mozilla Firefox (or simply Firefox) is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary. Firefox is available for Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems, with its Firefox for Android available for Android

ICT Competency

We will use it as a web browser to browse academic information and resources.

Educational application and relevance

We can access many Resources, Applications, Software and Educational resources from this browser

Version

Firefox 49.02

Configuration

No need to configure, its a web based application and need internet connection to browse.

Overview of Features

Firefox browser supports many web standards including xHTML, CSS, PNG images with alpha transparency. It renders most of web pages more correctly comparing with Internet Explorer or Netscape.

Firefox is a free, cross platform (available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms) web browser developed by Mozilla Corp. together with many other contributors.

For more detail visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_of_Firefox

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Development and community help

Mozilla Foundation and contributors - Mozilla Corporation

Working with the application

Functionalities

Step 1-Mozilla Firefox will appear under Applications > Internet >Firefox Web Browser.	Step 2- Main page will look like above image. If you know the web address you can type it in the address bar. Ex; www.upsc.gov.in
Step 3-If you don’t know the particular web address, you can type the key word of searching object Ex;UPSC. you can search not only for text, but also for images, videos using search engine. In Google search engine, the search results has options for searching the web, or images or videos. You can download the file (video, text file, image file) in to computer. Check if the copyright of the file allows to copy and use.	Step 4-browser will appear like the image and click it on blue letter which information will you want
Step-5- You can search for images from Firefox web browser, For example: If you want to search images about Digital Story Telling, simply type "Digital Story Telling" in the search bar of the search engine and select ‘Images’ link. Here you can select images that are licensed for reuse by specifying the search settings. If you want to download or save images to your computer, right click on the image and click on "Save image as". Rename the image file and select appropriate folder to save.	Step-6 - You could look for text information by simply typing the key word of your searching content, In the above image you can see text information accessed "Digital Story Telling" in the search bar of the search engine. You can copy the shown information and can paste into your own text document.
Step 7 Bookmarks-All modern web browsers include bookmark features. Bookmarks are called favourites or Internet short-cuts in Internet browser. To add a bookmark: Go to Menu Bar and click the bookmarks and click on "add this to bookmarks" to save the current page as a bookmark. By default, new bookmarks are saved to the Unsorted bookmarks folder. ... If you want separate folder, you can also create as per our requirements.	Step 8- In Browser you can save web pages offline to use without internet. To save the page, right click on the page and click on "Save Page As". In the save tab, you can give specific file name and in the file format you need to select "Web Page Complete" and then click SAVE. Now it will save html file with a thumbnail folder. By clicking on html file you can view web page offline.

File formats for creation

Not applicable

Saving the file

Not applicable

Export and publishing files

Not applicable

Advanced features

Open Source Firefox is the only open source Web browser among the most used browsers on the Web as of March 2013. The open source nature of Firefox enables developers from all over the world to contribute code to the browser and extend the functionality of Firefox with add-ons and themes.

Add-ons Firefox is one of the most easily customized browsers thanks to its extensive library of add-ons. Add-ons are small bits of code that can extend the functionality of Firefox in an almost infinite number of ways.

Security Firefox features a number of tools designed to prevent malicious websites from causing harm.

Installation

Method of installation	Steps
From Ubuntu software Centre	Ubuntu Software Center > in search box type it ‘Firefox’ > and select the Firefox application from the list and click "Install", you may need to enter your Ubuntu login password for completing the installation.
From Terminal	Open terminal Applications >> Accessories >> terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T). type "sudo apt-get install Firefox" and press "Enter" key, here also you need to enter your Ubuntu login password and press "Enter" key. If it ask Y/n type of question, just press Enter again.
From the web	Download Firefox from "https://www.mozilla.org" website for both Linux and Windows platform and just double click on it.
Web based registration	Not applicable.

The application on mobiles and tablets

Android version for Firefox can be downloaded from Fdroid.

Ideas for resource creation

From the web browser we can easily download what ever we want related to subject (text,audio video)

References

Wikipedia Browser