Class tutorial on Firefox for Educators

1. Customizing Firefox
Jessen Felix

2. Meet Ms. Firefox

3. Right click at this region and play…

4. Let’s personalize
Ms. Firefox

5. Right click at the red dinosaur head…

6. Right click at the red dinosaur head…

7. Go to “Properties”

8. Select the “Name” and Delete

9. This will keep the “icon” intact but
deletes the text…

10. You can delete any icon by…

11. To bookmark any website…just drag
and drop the icon here…

12. Click on the new bookmark to see the
logo of the website appear...
• Most of the time the website icon should
appear in all its glory

13. Play around until you get this view on
your bookmark toolbars…
• You can use the icons of any website as you
like

14. A few useful websites:
Zohocreator.com…

15. Ottobib.com

16. www.zamzar.com

17. www.mediafire.com

18. www.schoolr.com

19. Don’t forget our website…

20. Tab browsing circa 1588

21. How to browse multiple websites
without opening a lot of windows

22. We want to avoid this….
• (It looks ugly and makes browsing
uncomfortable to navigate…)

23. Click Ctrl+T to open a new tab…

24. This was later copied by the new
Internet Explorer…

25. Make your browser more powerful…
• Customize the search box

26. Click here…

27. These are search engines useful for
educators…

28. And some more…

29. Some more…
www.hakia.com

30. Add it like this…

31. Adding gadgets…

32. Go to our website…

33. Open these links into tabs…

34. Open these links into tabs…

35. This tool is useful for making websites

36. For information gathering…

37. Another useful tool for making
websites & working with Photoshop

38. For downloading videos…

39. Useful for bookmarking…

40. To track how much time you have
wasted online…

41. To install, click here…

42. Click install now…

43. After you completed installing all five
add‐ons, click “Restart Firefox”

44. Sometimes this shows up:
Just click “Close Tab”

45. You might get this too: Click OK

46. You should be seeing this view now…