How to Get the Most From Firefox 3
The latest version of Firefox (Version 3) has several improvements that can make your browsing life a little easier. Some of them are obvious, but some you may not have noticed yet. Here are ways to make the most of it.
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The location bar is one of the obvious improvements. It's now Smart. The autocomplete feature opens up with several choices related to what you're typing. Each autocomplete guess from Firefox contains a URL and page titles.
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Firefox 3 remembers your browing habits. It keeps the most visited websites in a "Most Visited" list. This is handy if you return to the same sites on a daily basis--and, these most visited links can easily be turned into bookmarks.
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Firefox 3 keeps track of your most recently bookmarked items in a list called, appropriately, "Recently Bookmarked" in the Bookmarks menu. This is handy to know about because of another new Firefox 3 feature. Bookmarks can now be tagged. You can tag new bookmarks as you add them.
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You can tag your older bookmarks, as well, in the Organize Bookmarks window. Once you've tagged your bookmarks, you will see a Tags category in the Organize Bookmarks window. Expand the Tags list and see all your tags. Clicking on any of your tags will filter out only the bookmarks with that tag.
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In the Tools menu, you find Add-ons. The add-ons window is easy to us. It suggests new add-ons and explains what they do. There's a handy link to more add-ons, or if you are looking for a specific one, there's a search box.
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Firefox checks sites against the list of Google's blacklisted phishing sites. You get an instant warning if you try to launch one of those phoney bank or PayPal sites that try to scam you out of your account information.
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If you crash or experience interruption of service during a big download, the new Firefox download manager can resume the download.
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Firefox 3 remembers your passwords. A big improvement in the way it works is that it doesn't ask you if you want it to remember a password until after you've signed in with a working password.
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If you need to zoom in to read small type on web pages, Firefox 3 has full zoom. This means that images and all of the other elements on a page expand equally to retain a page's layout and appearance, while still enlarging the text.
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Another important improvement in Firefox 3 is speed. It's faster than the older version.
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See Resources below for a link to Mozilla.com's list of all the Firefox features.
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Virginia DeBolt
Jul 20, 2009
joan100, that's a good question. Since upgrading to Firefox 3.5 I no longer see it. You can do History > See all History. On that window, you see an icon like a list, which you can pull down to select the columns you see in your history, one of which is Visit Count. You can still see your visit counts. Not a real replacement for the Most Visited Smart Folder however.
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joan100
Jul 19, 2009
You said that there's a Most Visited list in Firefox....where is it? Are you referring to the History list? Thanks!
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lindsey23
Dec 20, 2008
I didn't know about all of these! Thanks and 5*!
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lindsey23
Dec 20, 2008
I didn't know about all of these! Thanks and 5*!
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andre7514
Oct 28, 2008
I love firefox, I don't know what I would do without it!
